Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA-08) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) designated the death of D.C. police officer and Northern Virginia resident Jeffrey Smith as a line of duty death. Officer Smith died by suicide after defending the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The lawmakers have been pushing for this designation and helped pass bipartisan legislation to honor the public service of police offi...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) issued the following statement on the Biden administration’s decision to extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Sudan through April 19, 2025:  “Amid terrible violence and a tragic humanitarian crisis in Sudan, we’re pleased to see the administration act on our call for additional protections for Sudanese people already living in the United States. The decision to extend and redesignate TPS will ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced the inclusion of key Virginia priorities in the Senate’s Fiscal Year 2024 draft funding bills. All 12 bills were passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on a bipartisan basis. “We are proud to announce that the Senate’s draft government spending legislation for Fiscal Year 2024 includes critical funding that will keep the government open, back record investments in infrastructure and U.S. competitiven...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) led a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers to submit an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of U.S. Army veteran and FBI Special Agent James Rudisill.  Rudisill, a resident of Richmond and a decorated Army veteran from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is challenging the Department of Veterans Affairs’s denial of his Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits. On Monday, June 26, 2023, the Supr...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine celebrated the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act becoming law. Last August, the senators voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, legislation to lower health care and prescription drug costs, bring down energy bills, and tackle climate change—all while lowering the deficit. “From capping the cost of insulin to $35 per month for seniors on Medicare to helping more families make energy effici...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $25,144,014 in federal funding for Virginia Beach to protect critical infrastructure from the impacts of consistent flooding and rising sea levels. The project will fund several upgrades – including stormwater pump stations – to support coastal resilience across the city and along Shore Drive. “Rising sea levels threaten lives and livelihoods, and also risk the continued strength of...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Mark Warner (D-A) joined U.S. Representatives Rob Wittman (R-VA-1), John Sarbanes (D-MD-3), Bobby Scott (D-VA-3) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7), Co-Chairs of the House Chesapeake Bay Task Force, to introduce a legislative package aimed at tackling the largest source of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The Chesapeake Bay Conservation Acceleration Act (S. 27...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) in introducing the ERA Now resolution, a joint resolution that would direct the Archivist of the United States to affirm the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex—as the 28th Amendment of the United States Constitution. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to fulfill the ratification requirement....Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, along with Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Sara Jacobs (D-CA), led a bicameral group of colleagues—including U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner and Representatives Jennifer McClellan and Jennifer Wexton (all D-VA)—in calling on President Joe Biden to support needed funding to prevent a na...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine led his colleagues, including Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), in urging the Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA) to extend source of income (SOI) protections at multifamily properties with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In many states, landlords can deny housing to individuals based on source of income, and many Americ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), applauded the Senate’s passage of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). As a member of SASC, Kaine worked to write this legislation. The legislation includes various provisions secured and supported by Kaine to benefit Virginia’s servicemembers and defense community, such as reforms to improve access to mental health care and support Virgini...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate floor in objection to U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) reckless blockade of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon policy that grants health leave and travel reimbursement for military personnel who cannot obtain reproductive health care in the state where they are stationed. Kaine’s remarks were part of a series of speeches from Kaine and his ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine led the introduction of the Shenandoah Mountain Act, legislation to establish a 92,562-acre Shenandoah Mountain National Scenic Area (SMNSA) in Rockingham, Augusta, and Highland counties. He was joined in introducing the legislation by Senator Mark R. Warner. National Scenic Areas are established by Congress to protect the scenic, historic, recreational and natural resources in specific areas, while allowing compatible uses su...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senator Chris VanHollen and Congressman John Sarbanes (both D-MD) in introducing bipartisan, bicameral legislation to create a unified Chesapeake National Recreation Area (CNRA). The bill proposes to unite a series of voluntarily contributed park areas and iconic Bay properties under the operation of the National Park Service (NPS) in order to provide more federal resources for environmental conservation, cele...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the Long COVID Support Act, bipartisan legislation to support Americans living with Long COVID. The bill would accelerate research on Long COVID and provide information to patients and medical providers about Long COVID. “After hearing about Americans living with Long COVID not being believed, I decided to share my own story about my mild Long COVID symptoms so they would know there’s some...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine cosponsored the Kids Online Safety Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen online safety standards for minors and hold social media platforms accountable. The Kids Online Safety Act would provide young people and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to protect against online harms. The bill would require social media platforms to put the well-being of ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Joe Manchin (D-WV) today reintroduced the Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement (SEEE) Act, which aims to restore the health of the Bay Watershed, strengthen fisheries management, and expand environmental education programs for residents across the Bay Watershed. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the HELP Committee, introduced the Auto Reenroll Act of 2023, legislation to assist American workers in taking advantage of their available retirement plans and full employer match.   Some employees choose to not participate in their employer's retirement plan or take advantage of the full employ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $10,968,600 in federal funding to expand access to health care in the Valley and Southwest Virginia. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Community Facilities Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program, which helps rural health care facilities, tribes, and communities expand access to health care services and nutrition assistance. The funding was made possible by the Americ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner 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). “From our conversations with Virginians, it’s clear that they have not been given adequate opportunities to make their voices heard in FER...Continue Reading