Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the Long COVID Support Act, bipartisan legislation to support Americans living with Long COVID. The bill would accelerate research on Long COVID and provide information to patients and medical providers about Long COVID. “After hearing about Americans living with Long COVID not being believed, I decided to share my own story about my mild Long COVID symptoms so they would know there’s some...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine cosponsored the Kids Online Safety Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen online safety standards for minors and hold social media platforms accountable. The Kids Online Safety Act would provide young people and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to protect against online harms. The bill would require social media platforms to put the well-being of ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Joe Manchin (D-WV) today reintroduced the Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement (SEEE) Act, which aims to restore the health of the Bay Watershed, strengthen fisheries management, and expand environmental education programs for residents across the Bay Watershed. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the HELP Committee, introduced the Auto Reenroll Act of 2023, legislation to assist American workers in taking advantage of their available retirement plans and full employer match.   Some employees choose to not participate in their employer's retirement plan or take advantage of the full employ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $10,968,600 in federal funding to expand access to health care in the Valley and Southwest Virginia. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Community Facilities Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program, which helps rural health care facilities, tribes, and communities expand access to health care services and nutrition assistance. The funding was made possible by the Americ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner reintroduced the Pipeline Fairness, Transparency, and Responsible Development Act, legislation to strengthen the public’s ability to evaluate the impacts of and provide input on natural gas pipelines being considered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “From our conversations with Virginians, it’s clear that they have not been given adequate opportunities to make their voices heard in FER...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Eric Schmitt in sending a letter to the United States Department of State in order to find out the extent of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) recent breach of the Department’sunclassified email server preceding Secretary Antony Blinken’s trip to China: “This alarming incident is a powerful reminder of how important cybersecurity is to our national security,”...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C—U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-FL) in introducing the IDB Transparency Act, a bipartisan bill to require the Treasury Department to force transparency on China’s malign influence at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and require U.S. vote and influence at the IDB to counter People’s Repu...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chair of the SASC Subcommittee on Seapower, joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) in calling on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to help end Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) reckless hold on more than 260 military promotions. “Since February, Senator Tommy Tuberville [R-AL] has been single-handedly blocking the promotion of hundreds of generals and admirals, threatening ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of Virginia’s congressional delegation, Governor Glenn Youngkin, and local leaders are making the case that Springfield remains the best location for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new headquarters. Even with the General Services Administration’s (GSA) recent announcement of adjusted selection criteria, the lawmakers and local leaders expressed confidence that Springfield continues to perform strongly across each of the five criteri...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, joined Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) and other colleagues in introducing the Convenient Contraception Act, legislation that would improve access to contraceptive products. Specifically, the bill would provide individuals covered by private health insurance with the option to receive up to a full year of contraception, including over-the-counter contraceptives, at the ti...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 Committee (HELP), announced $1,006,097 in federal funding to support individuals studying to become nurses at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Old Dominion University (ODU). The funding is awarded by the Health Resources & Services Administration’s (HRSA) Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program, the Nurse Faculty Loan Program, a...Continue Reading

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