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Virginia Senator Tim Kaine is reacting to the multi-national prisoner swap that’s bringing home several high-profile Americans home, including Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan. “These prisoner exchanges are never easy,” said Kaine. “Obviously, the Americans who were imprisoned in Russia shouldn’t have been imprisoned to begin with.” As part of the swap, a Russian convicted of murder is returning to Moscow. “It’s a tough pill to swallow to release people...Continue Reading

Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced the unanimous passage in the Senate of their bill to rename the Lynchburg VA Clinic after Private First Class Desmond T. Doss. The legislation would rename the Lynchburg VA Clinic as the Private First Class Desmond T. Doss VA Clinic. Doss, who was born in Lynchburg, enlisted in the Army in 1942 following the Pearl Harbor attack. As a conscientious objector to his religion, his faith guided him not to carry a weapon. Instead, he enlisted to be...Continue Reading

New legislation proposed by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) will help struggling families have access to childcare. Kaine said many families across the United States are struggling to add childcare to their monthly budgets. Though it is a necessity for many working families, Kaine said, rising prices and diminishing supply add stress to working-class families. He said the current relief options are hard to access and confusing for families, and this bill aims to make it ...Continue Reading

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) have announced a huge step towards the deployment of $1,481,489,527.87 in federal funding to expand access to high-speed internet in Virginia. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) approved Volume 2 of Virginia’s Initial Proposal under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, an important step that demonstrates Virginia has a strong plan to expand broadband and is on track to receive its fundi...Continue Reading

In Washington, D.C., Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit is the talk of the town for politicians and protesters. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, who represent Virginia, are among the growing number of politicians calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. “The promise made to Palestinians that they would have a state just as Israel would be a state,” Senator Kaine said. “It’s a promise that needs to be kept.” Senators Kaine and Warner said a perma...Continue Reading

On Thursday, Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Virginia) released statements after pushing to advance the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act, which includes provisions from Warner and Kaine cosponsored legislation, to help keep children safe online. The legislation will receive a final vote in the Senate next week. “I was thrilled to vote today to advance a commonsense set of online safety provisions for kids,” said Warner. “For years, I’ve been pushing for basic guardrails that would k...Continue Reading

The Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act is bipartisan legislation that would streamline access to life-saving medical care for children with complex medical conditions who receive care across state lines by eliminating unnecessary administrative work for health care providers. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined introduction of the legislation today. “Children deserve medical attention as quickly as possible. In...Continue Reading

Senator Tim Kaine Visits Brownsville to Combat Fentanyl Smuggling We begin tonight on the border where former vice-presidential candidate and current U.S. Senator Tim Kaine visited the Rio Grande Valley. The lawmaker toured Brownsville today to observe how border officials are fighting the fentanyl crisis. Samantha Ruiz was at the press conference and brings us the details. Inspecting Anti-Fentanyl Measures Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, alongside Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials an...Continue Reading

A 4.5% pay raise for military personnel and a 2% pay raise for Department of Defense civilians is part of the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Bill recently endorsed by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The measure now heads to the Senate. The bill also includes a 1% pay raise for junior enlisted service members, according to a release from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “From Hampton Roads to Arlington to Radford to Danville, Virginia pl...Continue Reading

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Sen. Tim Kaine made two stops in Hampton Roads on Monday afternoon, the first in Norfolk to discuss NATO before heading to Hampton, where he met with VA Medical Center directors. Kaine (D-Va.) met with Vice Admiral Douglas Perry, commander of Joint Force Command (JFC) Norfolk and several military leaders to discuss the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).  “JFC Norfolk is one of three operational NATO commands in the world, and the only operational NATO headquarters i...Continue Reading

Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is taking a stand against "bump stocks," an attachment that assists semi-automatic weapons fire faster. The Supreme Court overturned a ban on "bump stocks" last week. But on Tuesday, Sen. Kaine cosponsored a bill that will completely prohibit the sale of the devices through the BUMP Act. "I think Donald Trump was a very bad president, but he did some things I approve of," Kaine said. "The Trump administration shared administration that basically said a 'Bump Stock'...Continue Reading

On May 23, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), along with U.S. Representative Bobby Scott, hosted a Commonwealth coffee event in celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month.  The event, which was held in Room SDG-11 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, brought together a diverse group of leaders from across Virginia’s AANHPI communities and provided a unique opportunity for community leaders to get together, share their persp...Continue Reading

U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, D-Va.,  a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., introduced the Response to Conflict in Sudan Act Thursday, legislation to bolster and coordinate the U.S. response to the war in Sudan by codifying the Special Envoy for Sudan position at the U.S. Department of State. Specifically, the bill would elevate the position and require the special envoy to report directly to the Secretary of State; the envoy currently reports to the Assi...Continue Reading

Have you heard the story about the expensive handbag designer, a member of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, who was his ambassador to South Africa? Although born there, Lana Marks had no previous diplomatic experience. What about Kelly Craft, a Republican donor and Trump’s ambassador to Canada, who reportedly was dubbed an “absent ambassador” because she was so often away from her post? Or the one about the bipartisan political fundraiser and would-be U.S. ambassador to Norway nominated by Pres...Continue Reading

Roughly 1 in 4 Virginia hospitals are critically short-staffed, according to federal data. During last week’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Sen. Tim Kaine highlighted two health care workforce bills he’s sponsoring. They're intended to ease labor shortages in the sector. The legislation comes at a time when about 1 in 4 Virginia hospitals are in a critical staffing shortage, according to late-April data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A li...Continue Reading

In Uzbekistan, Dora was a well-respected oncologist with more than 25 years of experience taking care of cancer patients. In the United States, she was told that her medical license would not be accepted, that her English was too poor to work with patients. She was encouraged to get a job in a cafeteria or as a housekeeper. “That was a big humiliation for me because nobody had ever said those bad words to me. After that, I was depressed, I cried a lot,” Dora told The Daily Progress. Dora, who as...Continue Reading

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have bought time with an apology to a bipartisan Virginia congressional delegation that is irate over delays in mail deliveries — including essential medications — to people in the Richmond area. But U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both Virginia Democrats, and Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, and Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-4th, say they will not relax scrutiny of the Postal Service and its regional mail distribution center in Richmond. “He owned up to respon...Continue Reading

Virginia’s U.S. Senators have introduced a bill in Congress they say could reduce gun violence in America. Included in their proposal is a provision commonly known as “Lucia’s Law.” In 2021, 13-year-old Lucia Bremer died in her mother’s arms after being shot nine times in Henrico County. Her killer was a fellow teenager with documented mental health problems, who used a loaded handgun he found in his home. ‘We had that tragedy in Central Virginia where a caregiver frankly should have been aware ...Continue Reading

U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Virginia Democrats, joined lawmakers from the House and Senate to urge the Office of Personnel Management to require all health insurance carriers in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program to cover in-vitro fertilization treatments and medications. If the agency were to take up the request, this would affect federal employees, many of whom live in Northern Virginia. In noting the treatment’s popularity for families struggling with fertility issues...Continue Reading