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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced legislation to require the Trump Administration to produce a report detailing Honduras’s human rights violations under former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who President Trump gave a “full and complete pardon” in December of 2025. Hernández was convicted by a U.S. jury for conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine and for related weapons offenses and was sentenced to 45 years in prison. The ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) sent a letter to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regarding the agency’s response to a mining accident in West Virginia in November 2025 that resulted in the tragic death of a miner. The letter stems from concern that MSHA staffing shortages are hampering the agency’s ability to protect mine workers in Southwest Virginia who risk their lives to power our country. In the letter, the senators press MSHA ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, spoke on the Senate floor on his bipartisan War Powers Resolution to ensure any U.S. participation in hostilities against Iran is explicitly authorized by Congress. The bipartisan resolution, which Kaine introduced on January 29, is privileged and will be called up for a vote in coming days. It would not prevent the U.S. from defending itself or Israel from an I...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), announced that they will force a vote in the coming days on their War Powers Resolution to ensure any U.S. participation in hostilities against Iran is explicitly authorized by Congress. It would not prevent the U.S. from defending itself or Israel from an Iranian attack. The War Powers Resolution is privileged; it was introduced on January 29 and may be called up fo...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) introduced the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act to reauthorize the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office (CBO), which supports the restoration of the Bay and connects local businesses, nonprofits, schools, and residents to coastal resilience and restoration efforts. “Th...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced that they are currently accepting congressionally directed spending (CDS) requests for Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27). Since 2021, the senators have secured over $650 million in CDS for projects that upgrade infrastructure, expand affordable housing and health care, boost economic development, and more. “Over the past several years, we’ve worked with Virginians to secure significant congressionally directed spend...Continue Reading

VIDEO OF KAINE’S REMARKS IS AVAILABLE HERE. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) delivered the annual reading of President George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address. Washington’s letter to “Friends and Citizens” formally marked his retirement and cleared the way for the peaceful transfer of power to the next President—one of the most important moments in American history. In the letter, Washington also called for national unity, warned against the rise of political factions, a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced nearly $35 million in federal funding to modernize bus fleets and facilities across Virginia, including replacing and rehabilitating buses, purchasing new vehicles, and upgrading transit infrastructure. This funding is awarded through the Department of Transportation’s Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program, which was significantly expanded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that the senators helped negoti...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) introduced legislation to require full refunds of Trump’s illegal tariffs, after they were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday by a 6-3 vote. To date, the Trump administration has collected an estimated $175 billion in illegal tariff revenue, raising taxes on products from nearly every country on earth, and jacking up prices for American families. The Tariff Refund Act of 2026 would require the full refund, wit...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced that he will be joined at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address by Dr. Cameron Roberts, DDS, to spotlight recent cuts to Medicaid and their effects on providers and patients. Dr. Roberts is a licensed dentist in Harrisonburg and serves as a Board Member of Augusta Regional Dental Clinic, which provides care to Virginians, including many on Medicaid and without insurance. “I’m grateful that Dr. Cameron Roberts will tr...Continue Reading

Photos are available here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, concluded a week-long series of bilateral meetings with local, state, and federal lawmakers and defense industrial base partners in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and Darwin, Australia, to discuss the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement. Kaine has long been a leading voi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement regarding the General Assembly and Governor Abigail Spanberger’s approval of a new Virginia congressional map that now heads to Virginians for a referendum vote: “Donald Trump’s decision to prioritize redrawing voting maps across the country instead of focusing on lowering costs for families has created extraordinary circumstances for states like Virginia. There is now a temporary pr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement after the Department of Justice fired James W. Hundley, whom the District Judges of the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) unanimously chose as the interim U.S. Attorney for EDVA: “The Trump Administration has shown complete disrespect for the longstanding process—which Presidents and Senators of both parties have respected and followed in Virginia for years—for the nomination and c...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee and former civil rights attorney, praised the Supreme Court’s ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc. that the Trump Administration abused its authorities under emergency economic power legislation to impose broad-based tariffs. Kaine joined an amicus brief in the cases against Trump and has led four successful Senate bills to nullify Trump’s broad-based tariffs. “P...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11) and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a 21-member letter to Peace Corps Acting Director Richard Swarttz requesting detailed information about the agency’s ongoing plans to reduce staff and reorganize its structure. The lawmakers warned that pairing an “ambitious plan to increase the number of volunteers to 8,000 per year by 2030” with “significant staff reductions at Headquarters and overseas posts” raises “serious conce...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (both D-VA) joined Senate colleagues in urging the Department of Education to immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s harmful decision to unilaterally halt federal funding for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). In the letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the senators criticized the Department of Education’s use of a Department of Justice...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, released the following statement regarding reporting that President Donald Trump is considering imminent military action in Iran: “Trump is bumbling his way toward war with Iran in a feeble attempt to accomplish what had already been done by a diplomatic deal that was effectively curbing Iran’s nuclear program—until Trump tore it up, over the objections of his then-Secre...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) final report into the January 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft: “We thank the NTSB for its thorough investigation of last year’s horrific crash near DCA that took the lives of 67 people, and for its recommendations on how to make the airspace a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10) and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a bicameral effort to pressure the Trump administration to provide a clear, categorical exemption for adopted children that would allow international adoptions to continue. Earlier this year, the administration announced that visa issuances would be paused for applications from 75 countries, claiming without evidence, that immigrants are a financial burden on Americans. The members and senato...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Pete Ricketts (R-NE), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio encouraging the Trump Administration to schedule the next Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. In the letter, the senators underscored the importance of the Quad partnership in advancing U.S. national security and ensuring a free an...Continue Reading