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Tim Kaine, when he was Virginia’s governor, was one of the first Democrats to back Barack Obama for his party’s presidential nomination over Hillary Clinton, the presumed nominee, in early 2008. There was even talk among the political chattering class that Kaine would be Obama’s running mate. After winning the White House, Obama tapped Kaine to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And in 2012, when Democrat Jim Webb stunned the party by choosing not to run fo...Continue Reading

If the president's decision to seek authorization for a battle America is already waging came six months too late, Congress's decision to leave town on vacation this week helps symbolize why. It is tempting to see President Barack Obama's request for permission to fight the Islamic State group as a partisan ploy in a city where the breakfast menu is a political document. But that discounts the deeper and more fraught question of who declares war for America. A few lawmakers, like Sen. Tim Kaine,...Continue Reading

ast week, President Barack Obama did something rare in modern America: He actually sought congressional authorization to wage war. In draft legislation, the president proposed “limited use” of the U.S. military against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for a period of no more than three years. The resolution even made the effort to emphasize its consistency with the War Powers Resolution of 1973. But the president was not just looking back to 1973. He was looking back to 2014....Continue Reading

Los senadores estadounidenses Tim Kaine y John Cornyn iniciarán este martes una visita de dos días en Honduras.Los senadores sostendrán reuniones con funcionarios de gobierno de Honduras, miembros de la sociedad civil y representantes de la empresa privada.El propósito de la visita es conocer la situación de Honduras en temas de migración, seguridad, pobreza y comercio.La llegada despierta el interés de las autoridades, que buscan apoyo para logra...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner, D-VA, and Tim Kaine, D-VA, has announced that Virginia housing authorities have received more than $30.4 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Capital Fund Program. The funds will allow local public housing authorities to build, repair, renovate and/or modernize public housing in Virginia by making large-scale improvements, such as replacing roofs or making energy-efficient upgrades to replace old p...Continue Reading

There was concern when Virginia elected Tim Kaine as senator that he would be a "yes man" for President Barack Obama. Kaine's stance on congressional authorization for use of force against the Islamic State may have relieved some of those worries. On Wednesday, Kaine applauded Obama's announcement that he would seek congressional authorization — a resolution Kaine introduced in September. Like Kaine, we were concerned about taking action against ISIS/ISIL without Congressional approval. ...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine, perhaps the most vocal advocate for the need for Congress to formally authorize the use of force against the Islamic State, is pleased to see President Barack Obama agree. Kaine has met with Obama and other administration officials over the past year to argue his case that the Constitution requires Congress authorize the use of force overseas. "I'm glad we are finally going to have the kind of debate the framers of the Constitution intended," he said, adding: "War is the most ser...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., on Wednesday applauded President Barack Obama’s announcement that he would seek congressional authorization for the use of force against Islamic State militants. “We can now focus on having the proper debate and vote the American people and our service members deserve,” said Kaine, who had pushed for a formal authorization of war powers since summer. But Kaine also expressed concern with what he termed the “breadth and vagueness” o...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama asked Congress for new powers to wage military operations against the Islamic State militant group, kicking off a renewed national debate over the scope of wartime powers that should be afforded to the commander-in-chief. American warplanes have pounded Islamic State targets for six months, but Mr. Obama on Wednesday said the proposed resolution authorizing military force is important not only for the U.S. strategy against the group, but also to the cohesi...Continue Reading

In a move that is sure to set off a new round of debate over how the U.S. should fight ISIS, the Obama administration has sent Congress a request for formal authorization to use military force against the extremist group. A copy of the new Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF, has been posted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; it says ISIS "poses a grave threat to the people and territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria, regional stability, and the national security interes...Continue Reading

After months of prodding from Sen. Tim Kaine and others, President Obama this week finally presented Congress with the draft of a document calling for approval of U.S. action against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The president asked for congressional authority for military action, but pledged not to engage in a lengthy ground war. Mr. Kaine argues that current U.S. involvement against the brutal terrorist group exceeds approved parameters. The question is important because it addresses the cruc...Continue Reading

Persistence pays off. As soon as it grew apparent that the Islamist State posed a clear and present danger to American interests, Sen. Tim Kaine said U.S. military intervention would require congressional authorization. He argued that President Barack Obama lacked the power to act on his own. The U.S. has been actively engaged against ISIS for many months; yesterday, the administration formally asked Congress to approve a new war. Kaine addressed war powers at an Oct. 21 Times-Dispatch Public Sq...Continue Reading

Six months after beginning airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, President Obama asked Congress on Wednesday to approve U.S. military action. The proposed new Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF, against the Islamic State “and associated forces” includes no geographic limitations, in keeping with the administration’s description of the group as seeking expansion beyond Iraq and Syria, and the Islamic State’s own claim to head a “ca...Continue Reading

RICHMOND, Va. — Members of Virginia’s congressional delegation are reintroducing legislation to grant federal recognition to six Virginia Indian tribes. The legislation is being introduced Wednesday by Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep. Rob Wittman in their respective chambers. Others backing the legislation include Sen. Mark Warner and Reps. Bobby Scott, Gerry Connolly and Don Beyer. The legislation would grant federal recognition to the Chickahominy, the Eastern Chickahominy, the Upper Mattap...Continue Reading

In 2010, the Virginia Department of Corrections spent nearly $750 million housing fewer than than 30,000 prisoners. That comes out to about $25,000 per inmate. Multiply that by 50 states. The United States leads the world, by a large margin, in incarcerations, with well over 2 million people locked up. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has a better plan for spending taxpayers’ money. The former Virginia governor recently introduced, along with six other senators, a bill called Providing Resources Early ...Continue Reading

After hearing “good things” about Lewis and Clark Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classrooms, Senator Tim Kaine stopped by for a visit on his way to work Monday morning. Kaine introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate last week designed to expand access to educational programs for children from birth to age 5. Titled the Providing Resources Early for Kids (PRE-K) Act, its goal would be to ensure more children are prepared to enter kindergarten. Caroline Superintendent Greg...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON -- As universities and colleges face heightened scrutiny over their handling of campus rape, two Democratic senators want high schoolers to be required to learn about sexual assault. The Teach Safe Relationships Act of 2015, introduced on Tuesday by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), would expand health education in public secondary schools to include learning on "safe relationship behavior" aimed at preventing sexual assault, domestic violence and dating violence. ...Continue Reading

A talk with  U.Va. students back in December started Sen. Tim Kaine thinking after he heard them say they’d never really learned about dating violence and consent in relations between the sexes before going away to school. But members of U.Va’s One Less organization, a group that speaks up for survivors of rape and sexual assault, thought sessions in high school about those subjects would be a big help in preventing sexual assaults on campus. So Kaine teamed up with Sen. Claire ...Continue Reading

Public-high-school health-education classes would be required to include lessons about preventing sexual assaults and relationship violence under a bill introduced by Sens. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) Tuesday morning. Kaine met with student leaders at the University of Virginia in December, following national attention being drawn to the issue of rape and relationship violence on campus. A now-discredited magazine article about a gang rape horrified a campus already imm...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine plans to introduce legislation Tuesday would expand public school health education to teach middle and high school students about sexual assault prevention and dating and domestic violence. “With the alarming statistics on the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses and in communities across the country, secondary schools should play a role in promoting safe relationship behavior and teaching students about sexual assault and dating violence,” Kain...Continue Reading