Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Committee’s passage of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act (PAHPARA)—which includes critical provisions inspired by Kaine legislation on data modernization and Long COVID—readying the legislation for a vote before the full Senate: “Throughout my conversations with Virginia...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and John Fetterman (D-PA) reintroduced legislation to support family members of miners who have passed away due to black lung disease. Currently bureaucratic requirements place unnecessarily strict burdens of proof on survivors in order to access the benefits to which they are entitled. The Relief for Survivors of Miners Act would ease restrictions to ma...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee cosponsored the My Body, My Data Act, legislation that would create a new national standard to protect reproductive and sexual health data by minimizing the information collected and retained and preventing that information from being disclosed or misused. Currently, few protections exist to prevent personal reproductive health data or information about people seeki...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL)—members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—applauded the Senate’s vote to formally add their bipartisan bill to explicitly prohibit any President of the United States from withdrawing from NATO without Senate approval or an Act of Congress to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  The Senate is expected to pass the NDAA soon. “Between Putin’s war in Ukraine and...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $44,606,006 in federal funding for Virginia airports.Funds were made available through the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) FY 2023 Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which funds airport infrastructure projects such as runways, taxiways, airport signage, airport lighting, and airport markings. “Local airports are crucial for travel to, from, and thro...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reintroduced the Preparing and Retaining Education Professionals (PREP) Act, bipartisan legislation to address teacher and principal shortages, particularly in rural communities, and increase teacher diversity. This legislation would help ensure that there are enough teachers and principals with the right skills and tools to prepa...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined 49 of their colleagues in reintroducing the Freedom to Vote Act, legislation to improve access to the ballot for Americans, advance commonsense federal election standards and campaign finance reforms, and protect American democracy. Kaine played an instrumental role in negotiating the legislation, which includes various provisions that have already been enacted in Virginia, including automatic voter registratio...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) are now accepting applications for the position of United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Virginia, to succeed United States District Court Judge Michael F. Urbanski, who will assume senior status effective July 4, 2024. An independent panel of lawyers assembled by the senators will review applications and interview qualified individuals. The senators will then use those recommendations, as we...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding the General Services Administration’s (GSA) announcement of adjusted selection criteria for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new headquarters: “The GSA didn’t pluck its initial criteria out of thin air—it spent years talking to experts and carefully deliberating on what is best for the mission of the FBI. While we are concerned that these ...Continue Reading

PHOTOS AVAILABLE HERE VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in Hampton Roads, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Chair of the Senate Armed Services (SASC) Subcommittee on Seapower, along with Australian Ambassador to the United States and former Prime Minister of Australia Dr. Kevin Rudd and U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven, discussed the importance of the Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) agreement, in which Australia will purchase at least three and up to five Virg...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, as well as Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Peter Welch (D-VT), released the following statement after a Guatemalan court disqualified one of the political parties: “We are deeply disturbed by the Guatemalan government’s unprecedented interference against the electoral process following the ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), filed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate is expected to take up on the floor next week. Kaine’s amendments include his bipartisan bill to prevent any U.S. President from leaving the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and his bipartisan bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) agai...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), issued statements hailing the bipartisan Committee approval of an amendment that deepens the partnership between Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States (AUKUS). This amendment — now a component of the bipartisan State Department Authorization Act of 2023 — authorizes the transfer of nuclear-powered, conventionally-arm...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), and U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) introduced bicameral legislation to help first-time, first-generation homebuyers – predominately Americans of color – build wealth much more rapidly. By offering new homeowners a 20-year mortgage for roughly the same monthly payment as a traditional 30-year loan, LIFT will allow indivi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the Data for American Jobs Act of 2023, bipartisan legislation to support career and technical education (CTE) and expand pathways to good-paying jobs. The legislation ensures that federal education data and research incorporates CTE to help improve states’ career readiness programs, meet the needs of the economy, and expand the skilled workforce. “I grew up working ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders meet for the 2023 Vilnius summit in Lithuania, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), reintroduced their bipartisan bill to explicitly prohibit any President of the United States from withdrawing from NATO without Senate approval or an Act of Congress. “Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine and Finland’s accession and Sweden’s pen...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in introducing the IDEA Full Funding Act, legislation that would ensure Congress fulfills its commitment to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In 1975, Congress passed IDEA to ensure that every child with a disability has access to educational opportunities. Under IDEA, the federal government committed to pay 40 percent of the average per person expenditure for speci...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent letters to the Air Force, Army, Navy, and to the Department of Defense (DoD) regarding their implementation of privatized housing reforms and tenant protections for servicemembers and their families. After hearing from military families in Virginia about the hazardous and unsafe living condition...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $15,500,000 in federal funding for clean energy improvements for Nottoway County and Alexandria City Public Schools that will lower energy costs. The funding was made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Renew America’s Schools Program, a first-of-its-kind program that aims to help schools make clean energy upgrades that will lower utility costs, improve indoor air quality, and foster heal...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine applauded $7,095,000 in federal funding for the Southern Shenandoah Borderlands Project to protect 4,364 acres of scenic, undeveloped lands adjoining Shenandoah National Park through a conservation easement. This would protect the southern tip of the National Park, which millions of passersby each year see as indistinguishable from adjoining National Park land, from impacts and potential development. The project is a part...Continue Reading