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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, cosponsored the Rebuild America’s Schools Act, bicameral legislation lead by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-3) to improve public school infrastructure. The bill would help ensure school facilities are safe, healthy, and sustainable and offer positive learning environments for all students. School infrastructure projects made possible by the bill...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) issued a statement following the conclusion of elections in El Salvador: “We congratulate the people of El Salvador and those in the Salvadoran diaspora who exercised their democratic right to vote over the weekend. While people exercised their right to vote, we are troubled by the unconstitutional moves that strongly influenced the outcome of Sunday’s election and statements ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined a letter led by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representative Grace Meng (D-NY-6) in support of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s proposal to expand the E-Rate program, which helps schools and libraries access affordable broadband. Under the proposal, the E-Rate program would be updated to allow schools and libraries to loan Wi-Fi hotspots to students and educators. In their letter, the la...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) reintroduced the Housing Supply and Affordability Act to create a new grant program that would provide funding to help localities develop and implement comprehensive housing policy plans. This program will provide technical assistance to help states, localities, and regional coalitions increase housing supply, improve housing affordability, and reduce barriers to new housing development while avoiding the displacement of ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding the House passage of a bipartisan tax package that would expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC), help companies invest in research and development, and increase the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, which helps create affordable housing for low and middle income families: “This bipartisan legislation combines three bills I’ve cosponsored—a tax credit to reduce child poverty, a housing tax credit to expand affordable hou...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act of 2024. The legislation enhances the United States’ ability to protect individuals abroad who are attacked for peacefully defending human rights and democracy. The legislation will bolster the U.S. Government’s capacity to support human righ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers in pressing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on the mail delivery delays and disruptions impacting Virginians in the Richmond region. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-4), Rob Wittman (R-VA-1), Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7), Jen Kiggans (R-VA-2), and Bob Good (R-VA-5) joined Senator Kaine in sending the letter. The push follows an alarming report that the...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Todd Young (R-IN) and U.S. Representatives Jen Kiggans (R-VA-2), Susan Wild (D-PA-7), Buddy Carter (R-GA-1), and Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, a comprehensive law Senators Kaine and Young and Rep. Wild successfully pushed to pass to reduce and prevent su...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Todd Young (R-IN), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Mike Braun (R-IN), reintroduced the Innovation Zone (IZ) Act, which would reform the underutilized and inefficient Experimental Sites Initiative (ESI) authorized under the Higher Education Act. The IZ Act would rename experimental sites to “Innovation Zones” to better reflect the program’s mission of encouraging higher education institutions to pursue innovative strategies that increase student succes...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) and a group of their colleagues introduced a resolution recognizing January as Muslim-American Heritage Month and celebrating the achievements of Muslims living in the United States. The resolution highlights the incredible contributions Muslim Americans have made across multiple sectors of society—from medical professionals to entrepreneurs, to faith leaders, athletes, and public servants—to help build a better nation.  Th...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, announced growing support for his amendment to maintain the congressional notification requirement for all U.S. assistance to foreign militaries. Specifically, the amendment would strike a provision in the draft national security supplemental funding bill that waives congressional notice requirements for U.S. funding for Israel under the Foreign Military Financing Program but...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article highlighting how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Senator Kaine helped pass by one vote, is lowering prescription drug costs for millions of seniors with Medicare coverage. Starting this year, seniors on Medicare Part D will see their out-of-pocket costs capped for the first time, saving patients thousands on prescription medications. In 2025, the cap will be lowered to $2,000 per year. Some estimates have s...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, U.S. Senator Todd Young, (R-IN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) pressed the Biden Administration on its strategy in response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced $300,000 in federal funding for the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Foundation in Abingdon to create the Southwest Virginia Regional Simulation Lab for Nursing and Allied Health. The lab will simulate clinical experience for 450 students and 11 organizations, helping Virginians develop clinical decision-making skills in a contr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Dick Durbin, (D-IL), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) announced growing momentum around their amendment to require that the weapons received by any country under the proposed national security supplemental are used in accordance with U.S. law, international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict. The amendment is now supported by Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Tammy Bald...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations (SFRC) and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committees, led Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11), Don Beyer (D-VA-8), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10), and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7) in sending a letter urging U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reimburse the Northern Virginia Emergency Response System (NVERS) for the $687,298.38 in medical services i...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement after the Senate approved a stopgap funding bill to fund some parts of the government through March 1 and others through March 8. This bill will keep the government open through early March by reauthorizing spending at Fiscal Year 2023 levels. “It’s unfortunate that we once again need to step in at the eleventh hour to avert a government shutdown due to Congress’ inability to pass full ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Roger Marshall (R-KS), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statements after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withdrew its appeal of a recent court ruling that limited the use of harmful copay accumulators. Copay accumulators prevent copay assistance from counting towards a patient’s deductible or out-of-pocket maximum, which makes it harder for patients to...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to raise concerns about multiple human rights violations committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Specifically, the senators ask him to highlight these human rights violations during the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHCR) universal periodic review (UPR) of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)...Continue Reading

VIDEO OF KAINE’S FLOOR SPEECH AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine delivered a speech on the Senate floor in commemoration of National Religious Freedom Day. The day honors the Virginia General Assembly’s passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. This statute was first drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1777 and became the basis of the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom. Kaine’s speech comes amid a sharp rise in antisemitism,...Continue Reading