Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement after President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, landmark legislation to reduce gun violence, into law: “Gun violence has scarred too many communities in Virginia and across the country. But today, for the first time in decades, meaningful legislation to curb gun violence has been signed into law. However, our fight to make our communities safer is not over. Success ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion,” overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey: “I am deeply disturbed that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, upsetting decades of precedent protecting the right of women to make funda...Continue Reading

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BROADCAST-QUALITY AUDIO AND VIDEO OF SEN. WARNER CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BROADCAST-QUALITY AUDIO AND VIDEO OF SEN. KAINE WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement after the Senate voted to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – landmark legislation to curb gun violence in the wake of horrific mass shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo, and cities across the nation: “Virginians know all too well the pain o...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) applauded the Senate passage of legislation to extend critical COVID-era school lunch flexibilities that have prevented children all over the country from going hungry during the summer and throughout the school year. The passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act comes just one week before waivers are set to expire, imposing cumbersome restrictions on parents just as summer break kicks off. “Parents across Virginia ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced the designation of $9,000,000 in federal funding to three Virginia-based organizations helping to provide affordable housing and services to low-income individuals. The funds were administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund through the department’s Capital Management Fund. “Affordable, safe housing should be avai...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 22 of his Senate colleagues called upon President Biden to ensure the direct involvement of the United States in the investigation of the shooting death of American citizen and journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. In their letter to the President – who is planning to visit Israel and the West Bank in mid-July – the lawmakers stress the importance of an independent, thorough, and transparent investigation ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen striking down New York State’s requirement that residents show the state “proper cause” before carrying a firearm outside their home: “I’m frustrated that the Supreme Court has limited states’ rights to enact gun safety measures in the wake of mass shooting after mass shooting. T...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-MD) released the following statement regarding Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) announcement that the Silver Line expansion project, which will provide service to Loudoun County, is fully constructed and now ready for final operational readiness testing: “Today’s news takes us one big step closer to our shared goal of ensurin...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a former fair housing attorney, reintroduced the Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2022 to protect veterans and low-income families from housing discrimination. Current law allows landlords to deny housing to individuals based on source of income, and many veterans and low-income families have reported discrimination when using vouchers to pay their rent. The Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2022 would expand protections under the Fair Housing...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Mike Rounds (R-SD), as well as a bipartisan group of his Senate colleagues, in sending a letter to Senate appropriators pushing them to strengthen health care for veterans in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill. Specifically, the letter requests funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Rural Health (ORH), which helps more than 2.7 million veterans across the country livin...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, who served as Virginia’s Governor during the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, released the following statement after the release of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act text—based on a framework to reduce gun violence that was announced on June 12 and applauded by Warner and Kaine: “Congress can no longer stand by as the scourge of gun violence tears apart communities. Following tragedy after tragedy, action...Continue Reading

Watch his full speech here (skip to minute 40) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a former civil rights lawyer, attended the NAACP Loudoun Branch’s Juneteenth March & Celebration in Leesburg, where he delivered the keynote speech. He first marched from the Leesburg County Courthouse to the Orion Anderson Memorial, which honors a 14-year old from Hamilton who was lynched in 1889. During his speech, Kaine said, “When I think about Juneteenth, I think about a po...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and Representatives Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer, and Jennifer Wexton released a statement following a briefing from the General Services Administration (GSA) on the future location of a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): “This morning, the Virginia congressional delegation received a briefing from the General Services Administration on the future location of a consolidated headqu...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With summer break already underway in a number of school districts across Virginia, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and 30 of their Senate colleagues in a push to extend the child nutrition waivers that have kept many children from going hungry throughout the pandemic, both during the school year and in the summer. In the letter, the Senators stress the need for Congress to extend these programs before the wa...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), released the following statement after the committee passed the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes various provisions secured and supported by Kaine to benefit Virginia’s defense community, shipbuilding industry, and victims of sexual assault: “As someone who has had the opportunity to hear firsthand from our service members and vetera...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine applauded Senate passage of the bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022, legislation that will expand health care and resources for toxic-exposed veterans under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and authorize a new community-based outpatient clinic in Hampton Roads. “Our nation’s veterans have sacrificed so much while serving ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Metro announces the return to service of some 7000-Series cars, U.S. Senators and Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-MD) are calling on Metro Interim General Manager Andy Off to use his remaining time at the helm of the region’s public transit agency to “productively to lay the groundwork for a lasting course correction that reaches deep within Metro that values rules, procedures, transparency, and accounta...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that the Modernizing Accelerated Approval Act they co-authored advanced yesterday as part of the FDA Safety and Landmark Advancements (FDASLA) Act, a package to reauthorize the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) user fee amendments. Their bipartisan legislation would make significant improvements to the FDA’s...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined HELP Chair Patty Murray, Senator Mazie Hirono, and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in introducing the Affordability is Access Act (AAA) to ensure that people across the country can access and afford over-the-counter birth control options and plan their own reproductive health, on their own terms. The Affordability is Access Act would ensure tha...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who served as Virginia’s Governor during the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, released the following statement applauding the bipartisan proposal to reduce gun violence: “This bipartisan proposal is a first and necessary step to reduce gun violence in our communities. I applaud my Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle for reaching this agreement. Every moment that Congress does not act, another community bears witness to the ...Continue Reading