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On the eighth anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine blasted the National Rifle Association for working to block state and federal efforts to adopt stricter background checks for gun purchases. Kaine said in a Senate floor speech he's come to believe the NRA doesn't care about gun owners and is focused on protecting gun manufacturers' ability to sell as many firearms as possible. The Virginia Democrat was governor in 2007 when a gunman killed 32 students and educators in ...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine came to th floor of the Senate to read the names of the 32 Virginia tech students and faculty who died in the mass shooting of April 16, 2007, and to call on Congress to pass comprehensive background check legislation -- the kind of law that would have kept shooter Seung Hui Cho for getting the high-powered weapons he used on that terrible day. Kaine said Congress needs to stand up against groups like the National Rifle Association that oppose such legislation -- and he told his f...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) says his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee haven’t given up on passing a resolution authorizing the use of military force (AUMF) against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “Oh, no. Not at all,” Kaine told reporters Wednesday when asked whether he agreed with recent remarks by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that President Obama’s request was essentially dead on Capitol Hill. Kaine said he had heard about McCarthy...Continue Reading

The bid to get federal recognition for the Monacan Indians and other Virginia tribes has enough votes to pass the Senate, provided it can make it to the floor for a vote, said U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a sponsor of the bill. “We’re trying to strategize how to do that now,” said Kaine, D-Va., adding he’s encouraged the bill already got an early nod of approval in committee. “If I can get it on the floor for a vote, it’s going to pass,” he said. “I won&rs...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine  on Friday defended efforts by Congress to get involved in the Obama administration's negotiation of a nuclear deal with Iran. Kaine  said he understands the White House's worries over what he called subtle, "high-stakes" talks. "Congress can screw it up. There isn't a guarantee that Congress won't screw it up. But Congress is there for a reason," the Virginia Democrat said, arguing that the Constitution requires legislators to be engaged. "The American public wants...Continue Reading

His party lost control of the Senate and the White House isn't all that happy with his push for a congressional review of any Iranian nuclear weapons agreement, but by and large Sen. Tim Kaine is feeling pretty optimistic these days. He's seeing signs that Congress actually wants to get things done – and that there might be room for legislators to put aside bitter partisan differences to act on issues that matter to the country. One sign came two weeks ago, at about 3:30 a.m., when he won ...Continue Reading

Inside cavernous Hall C at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Sen. Tim Kaine  stood under massive structures of concrete and steel that are used to help blast electrons at targets in the name of science. Nuclear physicist Cynthia Keppel was walking the senator through the ongoing $340 million upgrade to the lab's electron beam accelerator to double its energy and enable it to peer even deeper into the inner structure of protons and nuclei. "And all of the experiments," Kaine  said, "are ba...Continue Reading

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Sen. Tim Kaine  stopped at Old Dominion University Friday, as part of his five-day tour of the Commonwealth. He talked to 10 On Your Side about a number of current events and pressing topics. Sea Level Rise Kaine  told a crowd of ROTC cadets, service members and veterans about a growing realization that steps need to be taken to help military installations deal with sea level rise. New budget amendments in the Senate show bi-partisan support of addressing cl...Continue Reading

Arlington, VA.- El senador por Virginia, Tim Kaine , se puso el mandil rojo y guantes de hule, el martes 7 de abril, y empezó a cortar verduras junto un grupo de hispanos en La Cocina VA, una organización sin fines de lucro con múltiples objetivos, desde capacitar y certificar a los hispanos en el arte culinario hasta educarlos en cuanto a nutrición para luchar contra la obesidad. “Estamos listos para poner manos a la obra”, dijo el senador Kaine  a E...Continue Reading

A commemoration was held Thursday in Appomattox to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. It was on April 9, 1865 when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in our nation’s history. In fact, 620,000 are believed to have died in the line of duty in the war that pitted brother against brother. That is one of the reason Robert Krick with Richmond National Battlefie...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine talked job training, sentencing reform and the 2016 presidential race Thursday during a sit-down with black leaders in Lynchburg. Education and job creation were major themes raised by the gathering of about a dozen local leaders who met with Kaine, D-Va., at the Galleria in downtown. “We need to push more on jobs, but I think the way to push it and deal with some of these income inequality issues is to push it from the education side,” said Kaine, who co-chairs a...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine assured Stafford business leaders Wednesday that although the county has robust economic development opportunities, he wants to help create jobs here. In an informal chat at the Quantico Corporate Center, the Virginia Democrat noted that Naval Support Facility Dahlgren and Marine Corps Base Quantico are anchors of the Fredericksburg economy, but federal budget sequestration is hurting the installations and the contractors around them. He called sequestration “stupid,&rd...Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine has sent a letter to federal regulators, asking them to consider making "appropriate changes" to their scoping meeting process. Sen. Kaine says he has received several letters from people in Nelson County about a public hearing held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last month. Many claim FERC didn't provide everyone a fair chance to voice their concerns about Dominion Resource's proposed natural gas pipeline. Those letters claim Dominion stacked the speaker list...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) visited La Cocina VA yesterday, a nonprofit program that gives Hispanic immigrants bilingual, culinary job training in the basement of an Arlington church. Below Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church (1500 N. Glebe Road) yesterday afternoon, Kaine — who speaks fluent Spanish after spending a year in Honduras before entering politics — met with the program’s leaders and participants, eager to learn more about the benefits it provides. “This is an import...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine made a stop at the Orbital ATK campus Tuesday afternoon to hold a town hall-style discussion and to tour the satellite manufacturing plant. “I love having a company like Orbital that has such a great brand recognition,” Kaine said. “I’m also proud of you for being a great partner with Loudoun County.” The governor’s itinerary Tuesday also included a visit to the C.S. Monroe Technology School in Leesburg to meet with students on the RoboLoCo...Continue Reading

If President Obama had his way, Congress would simply keep its pesky nose out of the Iran nuclear deal. Given his critics’ behavior, it’s easy to understand such presidential bristling. Still, the better course — and, more to the point, the unavoidable course, given Republican majorities in both houses — would be for the Obama administration to switch from bristling to deal-making. It should work with Congress to find a mechanism that lets lawmakers weigh in on the Iran a...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine made a stop at the Vireol Bio Energy LLC plant in Hopewell on Monday for the first leg of his five-day spring break tour of Virginia. Kaine said he has been hoping to visit the plant since the United Kingdom-based company, Future Fuels, announced it would open a plant in Hopewell in August of 2014. “It was a big win for Hopewell and a big win for the Commonwealth of Virginia and then the plant opened here and I’ve been looking forward to coming and seeing it for m...Continue Reading

Virginia business leaders told U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny  Pritzker on Monday about problems they face in international trade. In a roundtable discussion at the World Art Group in Richmond, Kaine told the panelists that international trade affects all sizes of businesses, and it’s important to get policies right, “so we are here to talk to you about trade issues and how we can be helpful,” he said. The event primarily focused on the ...Continue Reading

Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., on Monday hailed the diplomatic breakthrough in reaching a nuclear deal with Iran. But he also urged stakeholders to proceed with caution to prevent the escalation of a nuclear crisis in the Middle East. “The framework that was announced Thursday is a framework, so there is a lot that has to be done to ... clarify some uncertainties” and reduce them to a verifiable deal, Kaine said in an interview in Richmond. “But I saw some very positive things i...Continue Reading

RICHMOND, Va (WVIR) - U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) started a five-day tour through Virginia on Monday. Sen. Kaine will be discussing jobs, trade and economic development for the commonwealth. The tour began with the senator and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker holding a round-table hearing with Virginia business leaders Kaine and Pritzker said the state has seen tremendous growth and job creation from rising exports. The secretary says 93,000 Virginians have jobs from flourishing expor...Continue Reading