Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement slamming the Trump Administration for its poor planning and coordination that has left Americans stranded in the Middle East: “The Trump Administration waited three days after it began waging an unwise, unconstitutional, and deeply unpopular war with Iran to warn American citizens to evacuate from 12 countries in the Middle East. By that point, commercial flights were almost completely shut down, and Iran ha...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 the Senate will vote on their bipartisan War Powers Resolution for Iran tomorrow. The bipartisan resolution, which was introduced on January 29, would stop President Donald Trump’s illegal, unnecessary war with Iran and ensure any U.S. participation in hostilities against Iran is explicitly authorized by Congress. It does not prevent the U.S. from defen...Continue Reading

FULL VIDEO OF THE SPEECH IS AVAILABLE HERE. 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 to urge his colleagues to pass his bipartisan War Powers Resolution to stop President Donald Trump’s illegal, unnecessary war with Iran and 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 Isr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, (both D-VA) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon pressing her on the Department of Education’s decision to propose student financial aid provisions that alter the definition of “professional degree” to only include doctorate-level degrees. This rule would limit the amount that many health care workers who require long, costly programs for ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) sent a letter to Senate leadership requesting the Senate’s prompt consideration of a bipartisan package of National Forest bills that advanced unanimously out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on October 21, 2025. The bills affect public lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin. “We write to respectfully request a process to advance a bipartisan packa...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, released the following statement regarding the United States’ preemptive attack on Iran: “Has President Trump learned nothing from decades of U.S. meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East? Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize that we had a diplomatic agreement with Iran that was keeping its nuclear program in check, until he ripped it up during his f...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined over 150 lawmakers in introducing the Direct File Act, new legislation that would reverse the Trump administration’s decision to end the highly successful Direct File program — which allowed taxpayers to file their taxes online, for free, and directly with the government — and make the program permanent. “Virginians should be able to file their taxes, quickly, easily, and for free,” said the senators. “The Trump adm...Continue Reading

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

FULL VIDEO OF KAINE'S FLOOR SPEECH IS AVAILABLE HERE 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 preve...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