Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement regarding this week’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing about the fatal January 29 crash near DCA. Yesterday, Potomac radar facility manager Bryan Lehman testified that he voiced concern that there were too many flights departing and arriving at the airport, but was then rebuffed by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) managers who cited ongoing congressional work ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), John Curtis (R-UT), and Pete Ricketts (R-NE) introduced bipartisan legislation to support Taiwan and its diplomatic partners in Latin America and the Caribbean and to deepen U.S. engagement in the Western Hemisphere. The United States-Taiwan Partnership in the Americas Act comes as Taiwan faces increasing military and diplomatic aggression from the People’s Republic of China, which has pressured Taiwan’s remaining par...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), announced his filing of legislation to force up to six votes to require the Trump Administration to produce assessments of the human rights situations in Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Eswatini, following reports that the Trump Administration deported immigrants who are not from those countries to those places. The legislation would require the reports to desc...Continue Reading

CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD BROADCAST-QUALITY AUDIO AND VIDEO: SEN. WARNER ON THIS LEGISLATION SEN. KAINE ON THIS LEGISLATION  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) were joined by Sens. Angus King (I-ME), Michael Bennett (D-CO), and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) in introducing today to increase transparency, accountability, and safety in immigration law enforcement. The Immigration Enforcement Identification Act would prohibit law enforcement officers from obscuring th...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined all of their Senate Democratic colleagues in reintroducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation to update and reinforce safeguards in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that have been eroded in recent years by federal court rulings. The legislation would strengthen our democracy by re-establishing preclearance for jurisdictions with a pattern of voting rights violations, protecting minority commun...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) introduced the Strengthening United States Leadership at the Inter-American Development Bank Act, which would bolster key economic partners in the Western Hemisphere, provide more alternatives to Chinese investment, and create opportunities for U.S. companies that will create jobs in the United States. “The United States must not cede our leadership on the international stage, especially to countries like China,” ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), John Curtis (R-UT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, introduced the Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Brazilian Amazon Act. The bipartisan legislation addresses crimes committed by transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking groups, which are devastating communities in and around the Brazilian Amazon, upending the rule of law, and accelerating ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced their intent to file privileged legislation to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods from Brazil in response to steps Brazil is taking to hold friend of Trump and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accountable for attempting a coup. The additional tariffs announced by Trump will put the total Trump tariffs ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, (both D-VA) sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy John Phelan asking the U.S. Navy for answers regarding the death of Seaman Angelina P. Resendiz, who was found dead on June 9 in Norfolk after being reported missing since May 29. Resendiz was assigned to the destroyer USS James E. Williams at Naval Station Norfolk. In the letter, the senators request a brie...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the 60th anniversary of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, (both D-VA) introduced legislation to repeal the health care provisions in President Donald Trump and Republicans’ ‘Big, Ugly Bill’ and permanently extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits, which expire at the end of the year. The law, which Warner and Kaine strongly opposed, will ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner, Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Senate Armed Services Committees, (both D-VA) and fellow U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Jack Reed (D-RI), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Andy Kim (D-NJ) released the following stat...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded the committee passage of the Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act, bipartisan legislation Kaine introduced to reauthorize programs to improve access to health care in rural communities. “Everyone – regardless of their ZIP code – deserves access to high-quality medical care. But rural communities across Virginia and the country face uniqu...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (D-VA) joined a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues in introducing the College Transparency Act (CTA), legislation to ensure students and families have better information as they consider higher education opportunities. The CTA would modernize the college reporting system for postsecondary data by providing accurate reporting on student outcomes such as enrollment, c...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, (both D-VA) and a group of 37 Senate colleagues expressed unified alarm in a letter to Trump Administration officials about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, called for the large-scale expansion of humanitarian aid, and urged the Trump Administration to resume diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire agreement and end the war. “The acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza is also unsustainable...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $60,900,000 in federal funding to help farmers in Virginia recover from Hurricane Helene. This funding, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, will be distributed to farmers to help repair and cover infrastructure, timber, and market losses from Hurricane Helene. The funding was included in the disaster relief package that the senators...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (D-VA) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced the Strengthening Advocacy for Long-Term Care Residents Act, legislation to improve the Long-Term Care Ombudsman program established under the Older Americans Act. Local Ombudsman programs designate staff and trained volunteers to advocate for residents of nursing homes and other long-term care (LTC) facilities, allowing residents...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Peter Welch (D-VT), and 18 of their Senate colleagues in pressing the Trump Administration for answers on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private group connected to deadly violence against starving people seeking food in Gaza. In their letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the senators called on the Administration to restore support for existing United Nations aid distribution mechanisms, imme...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, both D-VA, issued the following statements after the Trump Administration heeded their demands that it release the full $108 million in federal funding it was illegally withholding from K-12 schools across Virginia. “It’s clear by now that Donald Trump’s erratic way of governing spares no one – not even Virginia’s schoolchildren,” said Warner. “Afte...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined their colleagues, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Roger Wicker (R-MI) in releasing the following statement on the anniversary of the arrest of Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu:“Two years ago this week, Azerbaijani author...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led their colleagues in sending a letter to President Donald Trump expressing serious concerns regarding his threats to start a trade war with Brazil—which would raise costs for American families—unless Brazil’s Supreme Court ends the prosecution of longtime...Continue Reading