Press Releases

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Biden v. Nebraska, which struck down the Department of Education program to provide targeted student loan forgiveness to millions of Americans: “Many Americans are saddled with a mountain of student loan debt, and they’re putting off buying a house, starting a family, or opening their own business because they chose to pursue their dreams. The Su...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement after the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) within the Department of Labor released new silica standards for miners: “Our coal miners have worked tirelessly to power this nation, often under dangerous conditions. We owe it to them to protect their health and safety. That’s why I joined Senators Manchin, Brown, Casey, Fetterman, and Warner to push the Administration for new silica standa...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) applauded $490,647 in federal funding to Virginia Tech for the planning of a project to accelerate forest farming and grow the non-timber forest product (NTFP) industry in Central Appalachia. “We’re glad to see these federal dollars go towards supporting Appalachian Sustainable Development in its efforts to make Southwest Virginia and Central Appalachia a leader in the NTFP market. This project wil...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee—released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s rulings in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, which further restrict colleges and universities from considering race in admissions decisions: “Today’s sad ruling means we have even more work to do to address ou...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) sent a letter to the CIM Group, a real estate owner and developer, highlighting the concerns of tenants at an affordable housing complex in Alexandria, who have reported declining conditions and increases in evictions and rents. “We write to share troubling concerns we have heard from constituents regarding conditions of the Southern Towers apartment complex in Alexandria, Virginia since your firm, the CIM Grou...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) applauded $171,555,620 in federal funding for five transit projects in Virginia. This funding was authorized by the bipartisan infrastructure law supported by both Senators and signed into law by President Joe Biden. Specifically, these federal dollars will go towards investing in bus facilities and American-built buses that will be manufactured with American parts and labor.   “We are thrilled to se...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced that over $38 million in federal infrastructure investments are going to communities in Northampton, Accomack, Chesterfield, Rockingham, and Fairfax Counties through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Equity (RAISE) grant program, which received historic levels of support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that the senators helped pass. “Strong infrastructure—from ro...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement applauding $1,481,489,572.87 in broadband investments that are headed to Virginia through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which was made possible by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Kaine helped pass: “I’m in Winchester today to hear all about telehealth services have become an essential tool in helping health providers keep our communiti...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Ahead of tomorrow’s one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s devastating decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined Sen. Cortez Masto (D-NV) and a number of their colleagues in introducing the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act. As legislatures and governors across the country continue to target and undermine reproductive freedoms, this legislation would block anti-choice states from limiting travel for abortion service...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-IO) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) advanced their bipartisan solution to address the fentanyl crisis as a national security threat in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. Fentanyl is a leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45, and an estimated 196 Americans are dying every single day due to fentanyl, which is about the equivalent of the death total on 9/11 every 15 day...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 SASC passed the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes various provisions secured and supported by Kaine to benefit Virginia’s servicemembers and defense community, such as reforms to improve access to mental health care and support Virginia’s shipbuilding industry: “Virginia is more connected ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA), Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) wrote a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young, urging for additional information on the delayed announcement of a new silica standard for miners across America, especially Appalachia.  “While we understand that the federal rulemaking process is complex and can be time consuming, the critic...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined their colleagues in reintroducing the Equality Act—historic, comprehensive legislation to protect LGBTQ+ Americans from discrimination, just as religious, racial, and ethnic discrimination are already illegal everywhere in the United States. The legislation comes as over 400 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across America this year—a new record. “It’s disturbi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) in reintroducing the Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act, legislation to ensure that victims of gun violence have their day in court and that negligent gun companies and gun sellers are not shielded from liability when they disregard public safety. The bill would repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), passed by Congress in 2005, which gives ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) today announced the introduction of bicameral legislation to redesignate the National Historic Site known as “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial” to its original name “Arlington House.” The bill was cosponsored by Virginia Representatives Bobby Scott, Gerry Connolly, Abigail Spanberger, Jennifer Wexton, and Jennifer McClellan, and by D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Supporting Teaching and Learning through Better Data Act, legislation to help address teacher workforce shortages by strengthening data collection on the teacher workforce. There are several existing mechanisms for collecting data on the teacher workforce, but the data is often inaccurate and incomplete, making it difficult for policymakers and sc...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI)—Senate co-leads of the Child Care for Working Families Act—in urging congressional action to address the continued child care crisis and coming funding cliff, pointing to a new report released today by The Century Foundation (TCF). TCF’s report finds that on Septembe...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced the Nicaragua Political Prisoner Support Act to support the 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners who were banished by the Ortega dictatorship and are now currently in the United States. This bill would allow the political prisoners to access basic services offered under the Office of Refugee Resettlement like other refugees are eligible to do.    “These Nicaraguans are political leaders...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined their colleagues in introducing the bipartisan Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2023 to help more Americans access telehealth services. The CONNECT for Health Act would expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent telehealth flexibilities that were enacted during COVID, make it easier for patients to connect with their doctors, ...Continue Reading