Press Releases

VIDEO OF WARNER & KAINE FLOOR SPEECHES ON JAMAR WALKER AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Mr. Jamar Walker to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA): “We’re pleased the Senate voted to confirm Mr. Jamar Walker to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia after we recommended him to the President. Mr. Walker bring...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $9,685,734 in federal funding to support the expansion of broadband at three Virginia Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Awarded through the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program, this funding will allow Norfolk State University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University to improve existing internet networks and provide workforce develo...Continue Reading

FULL VIDEO AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine is currently accepting requests to fund local Virginia community projects in need, also known as congressionally directed spending (CDS) or earmarks. The deadline to submit requests is March 10. Once a Virginia non-profit, educational institution, or unit of a local or state government requests funding, the requests will go through an internal review process to ensure the project is eligible for funding and has a substanti...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $29,400,000 in federal funding for three Virginia airports. Funds were made available through the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Terminals Program. This funding was made possible through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was negotiated by Warner and strongly supported by Kaine. “Anoth...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement ahead of Saturday’s general election in Nigeria: “Tomorrow, the people of Nigeria have the opportunity to make their voices heard and declare their aspirations for the future.   “Free, fair, and peaceful elections that reflect the will of the people are the bedrock of ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-At-Large) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-8) in introducing the bipartisan Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act, legislation to eliminate the federal crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity and apply it retroactively to those already convicted or sentenced. Currently, there are harsher statutory criminal...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement: “Secretary Blinken’s meeting with Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders comes at a crucial point in this crisis. There must be constructive dialogue towards a peace agreement. In particular, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lachin corridor is harming civilians and undermining efforts to establish stability in the region. Free and open transit through the Lachin corridor must resume immediately.”...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and more than a dozen senators from both parties in urging for the extension of a policy that allows rural hospitals to continue delivering quality care to their communities. In a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the senators formally requested a four-year extension of the Low Wage Index Hospital Policy, which allows hos...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) in introducing the bipartisan Student Transparency for Understanding Decisions in Education Net Terms (STUDENT) Act to provide prospective students and their families with greater transparency around borrowing federal student loans. The legislation...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $2,950,000 in federal funding to reconnect communities by improving transportation infrastructure in Norfolk and Richmond. The funding is awarded through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant program (RCP), which supports planning grants, capital construction grants, and technical assistance to reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportuni...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $54,074,769 in federal funding to improve affordable housing across the Commonwealth. The funding is awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Capital Improvements’ Capital Fund, which annually provides funds to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for the development, financing, and modernization of public housing developments and for management improvements. “Affor...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Chairman Mark R. Warner and Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services (SASC) and Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), joined Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) in a bipartisan push to fully fund the Department of Defense (DOD) office that addresses unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and airborne national security risks. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was crea...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Todd Young (R-IN), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), co-chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, announced that the Senate passed their resolution recognizing February 2023 as CTE Month. A broad, bipartisan group of 72 senators co-sponsored the resolution. “I grew up working in my dad’s ironworking shop, where I saw up close the essential role trade professionals play in our communities. Particularly at a time ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Jon Tester (D-MT) in introducing a resolution opposing a Republican plan to impose a 30 percent national sales tax on all goods and services, which would raise taxes for all Americans, regardless of their income. Instead, the senators’ resolution calls for tax cuts for working- and middle-class families – paid for by making sure the ultra-wealthy and billion-dollar corporations pay their fair share...Continue Reading

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BROADCAST-QUALITY VIDEO CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES PHOTOGRAPHS WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today elected officials and community leaders held a press conference in Springfield to lay out why Northern Virginia is the ideal location for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters, as the FBI and the General Services Administration (GSA) work to finalize a location after years of work on the project spanning multiple presidential administrations. “Virgi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and other colleagues in introducing the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to crack down on profiteering and price gouging by large oil companies and provide consumers further relief at the gas pump. “I am glad to see Virginia’s average gas prices fall well below $3.50 a gallon and remain focused on doing all I can to keep prices low,” said Kaine. “That should include taxing excess prof...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led his colleagues in introducing the Saving the Civil Service Act, legislation that would prevent any position in the federal civil service from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. This bill would secure the civil service and protect tens of thousands of federal employees from losing job protections and due process rights. U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11) is i...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the General Services Administration (GSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) work to finalize a location for the new FBI headquarters, Virginia’s leaders are joining together to make the case that Springfield is the superior site.   In a letter, the Commonwealth’s bipartisan congressional delegation and Gov. Glenn Youngkin detailed the ways in which Springfield best meets the five selection criteria set forth by the GSA and FBI, which are:...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) along with Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09) urged the Army Corps of Engineers to act quickly to finalize the Buchanan County Consolidated School Relocation Project, a project that would relocate and consolidate the existing Hurley High School and Buchanan County Career, Technology & Higher Learning Center from their existing locations in a floodplain onto one campus in Grundy, Virginia. “...Continue Reading

WATCH HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), along with U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-IN), joined CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss their bipartisan bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs). The repeal of the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs would formally end the Gulf and Iraq wars decades after Congress authorized them. The bill would reassert Congress’ constitutional role in deciding whether and when to send our ...Continue Reading