Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee—joined Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and U.S. Representatives Jesús "Chuy" García (D-IL-04) and Jahana Hayes (D-CT-05) in introducing the Diversifying by Investing in Educators and Students to Improve Outcomes For Youth (DIVERSIFY) Act, which would strengthen the Teacher Education Assistance for College and High Education (TEACH) grant program, helping...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—Chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, which oversees the Marine Corps—joined Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and a bipartisan, bicameral group of colleagues in urging Senate Appropriations Committee leadership to continue to invest in the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design initiatives, which is the branch’s restructuring plan to modernize and prepare its forces to counter growing threats from China’s military. ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-MT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today introduced their bipartisan Delinking Revenue from Unfair Gouging (DRUG) Act to lower drug costs and prevent massive Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) from price gouging consumers. The Senators’ bill would prohibit PBMs from making more money on high-cost drugs than they do from lower-cost drugs to even the playing field for patients. “When Montanans are having to decide between buying a bag of gro...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Todd Young (R-IN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) on Tuesday released a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which found the use of non-compete agreements (NCAs) is widespread throughout the U.S. labor market and serves to protect the stated interests of businesses while restricting job mobility, lowering wages for workers, and discouraging innovation. In 2019...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, are leading a bipartisan effort directing increased federal attention to fentanyl trafficking by utilizing the tools of the Department of Defense (DoD) and involving Mexico as an active partner to combat this crisis and disrupt Mexican cartel activity. Representatives Stephanie Bice (R-OK) and Salud Carbajal (D-CA) are leading this effort in the House of Representatives. Fent...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, during Brain Cancer Awareness Month, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) introduced the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0. This legislation would provide a new source of funding for the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First)—which Kaine helped create—by redirecting penalties collected from pharmaceutical, cosmetic, supplement, a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $6,710,000 in federal funding for three Virginia airports. The funding was awarded through the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Airport Improvement Program (AIP).   “Virginia’s airports serve thousands of flyers every day, and we are thrilled to deliver funding that will make travel through Virginia safer, more convenient, a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the bipartisan Help Ensure Lower Patient (HELP) Copays Act, legislation that would protect patients from harmful insurance and Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) practices that raise out-of-pocket drug costs for patients. “Thousands of patients depend on copay assistance programs to afford the lifesaving medications they need,” said Kai...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and other colleagues in reintroducing the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, historic legislation to address America’s maternal health crisis and save moms’ lives. The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act includes the Maternal Vaccinations Act, legislation led by Kaine to increase maternal vaccination rates for common illnes...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in reintroducing the Access to Contraception for Servicemembers and Dependents Act, bipartisan legislation to ensure military families receive the quality reproductive health care they deserve. The legislation would ensure servicemembers and their families who receive health care through TRICARE have access to contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced the Accelerating Biomedical Innovation Act, which would establish a network of universities to work with the private sector on the development of FDA-regulated products that could be used to combat potential public health emergencies:   “One of the many crucial lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is the importance of investing in countermeasure technologies—such as vaccines, tests, t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee—applauded the HELP Committee’s passage of the bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act, legislation that would help lower drug costs for Virginians and Americans across the country. The Pharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act included the Patient Right to Shop Act, bipartisan legislation led by Kaine and U.S. Senators Roger M...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement on the end of the public health emergency for COVID-19, which was declared on January 31, 2020: “The past three years of COVID have brought incredible loss and economic uncertainty, but thanks to federal relief we passed in Congress and the strength and resiliency of the American people, we’ve been able to get back to work and school and reconnect with loved ones. As the public health emergency co...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following a push by U.S. Senator Tim Kaine to fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it has approved a total of $42 billion in Public Service Loan Forgiveness for more than 615,000 borrowers, including over $1.3 billion in relief for more than 20,000 Virginia public servants, since October 2021. The PSLF program provides America’s teachers, servicemembers, police, firefighters, and other public servan...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner reintroduced the School Infrastructure Modernization Act, legislation to help modernize aging schools in Virginia and across the country by making it easier for school districts to use the current federal historic rehabilitation tax credit (HTC) to upgrade historic school buildings that will continue to operate as schools after renovation. Current law makes it difficult for school districts to use the HTC because it requi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee—joined Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) in reintroducing the Early Educators Apprenticeship Act, bipartisan legislation to address staffing shortages of child care and early childhood educators by developing, administering, and evaluating early childhood education apprenticeships. These apprenticeships would help student...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues for a third week, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), joined by Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Michael Bennet (D-CO), have formally requested that the Biden administration offer all avai...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chair of the SASC Seapower Subcommittee, applauded the Department of Defense’s (DOD) implementation of the Brandon Act to help servicemembers access mental health support. DOD Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gil Cisneros signed a policy today to begin the Act’s implementation. “For over a year, I’ve been working with Brandon CasertaR...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $669,200 in federal funding to improve community facilities and purchase equipment in rural communities across Virginia. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development division’s Community Facilities Direct Loans & Grant Program and Water and Waste Disposal Predevelopment Planning Grant Program. “We’re glad these funds will help improve essent...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, along with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA-03), introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act, comprehensive legislation to tackle the child care crisis and help ensure families across America can find and afford the high-quality child care they need. In Virginia, most families pay over $15,000 for infant care. “I hear about the child care crisis everywhere I go in Virg...Continue Reading