Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Jerry Moran (R-KS), joined by Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), introduced the Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act (BGTTA) — legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code to ensure that funding directed for the implementation of broadband from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) will not be consider...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)—the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere—and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released the following statements after their resolution supporting democratic institutions in Brazil was passed by the Senate. The move comes amid Brazilians’ fears that the results of next week’s general election could be undermined by President Bolsonaro, who is down in the polls and has told his base to ̶...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, cosponsored legislation led by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) that would strengthen U.S. military readiness and ensure the U.S. has sufficient critical munition stocks to support allies and partners in a crisis without depleting U.S. military stocks. The Promoting Readiness for Overseas Contin...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine issued the following statement today after successfully pushing to strip an unprecedented provision to greenlight the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from the government funding bill: “Like so many Virginians, I’m relieved we defeated the attempt to greenlight the Mountain Valley Pipeline without normal administrative and judicial review. Now we can move on and fulfill our responsibility to fund the government.”  ###

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine issued the following statement ahead of today’s Senate vote to proceed to a House bill that will be amended to become a continuing budget resolution funding the government through mid-December. The text of the continuing resolution was released at midnight last night and contains a provision exempting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from normal permitting processes, eliminating judicial review of key elements of the project, and ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Roy Blunt (R-MO) in calling on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the U.S. delegation to the United Nations (UN) to push for the creation of a new Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Safety of Journalists. “Every day, around the world, courageous journalists regularly put themselves in harm’s way in pursuit of truth and accountability. They acce...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement on the first day of early voting in Virginia: “Early voting is easy and convenient, and I’m proud that Virginia makes it so simple for people to cast their ballots ahead of time and not worry about lines on Election Day. Voting should be fast, secure, and simple, regardless of who you are or who you’re voting for, and I hope that we can pass legislation at the federal level to ensure that’s...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $4,275,080 in federal funding to help more Virginians access affordable housing. The funding will be awarded to Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) across the Commonwealth through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Incremental Housing Choice Vouchers program.   “Rising rents and home prices are making it harder and harder for Virginians to find affordable housing options,̶...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), applauded unanimous Senate passage of his bipartisan bill to bolster federal efforts and increase coordination to address global malnutrition. The Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act will authorize the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to scale up programs and activities to prevent and treat malnutrit...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Dick Durbin (D-IL), as well as a bipartisan group of their colleagues, introduced the Non-Recognition of Russian Annexation of Ukrainian Territory Act, which would require U.S. policy to not recognize any Russian claim of sovereignty over any portion of the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine and prohibit any federal department or agency from taking any action or extending any assistance that implies rec...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement ahead of the Senate vote on the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, legislation he has cosponsored which would improve transparency around political spending in federal elections: “The DISCLOSE Act is critical legislation to strengthen campaign finance laws to make sure the public knows who is spending money to influence federal elections. While additional...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine issued the following statement regarding recently released legislative text containing an unprecedented provision to approve the Mountain Valley Pipeline and exempt it from normal administrative and judicial review: “We owe it to Virginians to ensure that any energy project that deeply affects their communities, even to the point of seizing their property, should only proceed following an orderly, fair, and transparent process overseen...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement on Senate ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocols (Kigali Treaty), which would curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases that contribute heavily to climate change: “I have long said that we don’t need to choose between fighting climate change and creating jobs—we can use American innovation to do both. I’m proud that, by ratifying the Kigali Treaty, ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Mike Rounds (R-SD), as well as a bipartisan group of their colleagues, sent a letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin and White House officials, urging additional action to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) testing and remediation and improvements to PFAS-related planning.   PFAS are manufactured substances linked to increased risk of cancers and other adverse...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY-07), and a bipartisan group of colleagues in sending a bicameral letter to President Joe Biden to urge him to issue a Major Disaster Declaration for all of Puerto Rico’s municipalities in response to Hurricane Fiona. Just days before the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, Hurricane Fiona ravaged the isla...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Urban Institute issued a report indicating that U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Michael Bennet’s (D-CO) Medicare-X Choice Act, introduced in February 2021, would reduce the uninsured population by over a million Americans and save households, employers, and the government billions of dollars. According to the report, Medicare-X would reduce the number of uninsured people by 1.1 million, would save households $10.9 billion, and would save the federal g...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine—who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee—teamed up with 28 of their colleagues to call on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take immediate action to safeguard women’s privacy and their ability to safely and confidentially get the health care they need. Specifically, the Senators urged the Biden Administration to strengthen federal privacy protecti...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), along with Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), applauded House passage of the Preventing a Patronage System Act, legislation led by Kaine to prevent any position in the federal civil service from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. The bill would secure the civil service system and safeg...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine 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). “Communities and landowners who would be impacted by an energy project deserve to have their concerns heard—especially if a green light fr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), issued the following statement after his legislation to prohibit any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without the Senate’s advice and consent was passed by SFRC as part of this year’s State Department Authorization bill. The bill also included critical provisions of Kaine’s legislation to improve oversight of non-career U.S. ambassadors: ...Continue Reading