Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Eric Schmitt in sending a letter to the United States Department of State in order to find out the extent of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) recent breach of the Department’sunclassified email server preceding Secretary Antony Blinken’s trip to China: “This alarming incident is a powerful reminder of how important cybersecurity is to our national security,”...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C—U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-FL) in introducing the IDB Transparency Act, a bipartisan bill to require the Treasury Department to force transparency on China’s malign influence at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and require U.S. vote and influence at the IDB to counter People’s Repu...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chair of the SASC Subcommittee on Seapower, joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) in calling on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to help end Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) reckless hold on more than 260 military promotions. “Since February, Senator Tommy Tuberville [R-AL] has been single-handedly blocking the promotion of hundreds of generals and admirals, threatening ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of Virginia’s congressional delegation, Governor Glenn Youngkin, and local leaders are making the case that Springfield remains the best location for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new headquarters. Even with the General Services Administration’s (GSA) recent announcement of adjusted selection criteria, the lawmakers and local leaders expressed confidence that Springfield continues to perform strongly across each of the five criteri...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, joined Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) and other colleagues in introducing the Convenient Contraception Act, legislation that would improve access to contraceptive products. Specifically, the bill would provide individuals covered by private health insurance with the option to receive up to a full year of contraception, including over-the-counter contraceptives, at the ti...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 Committee (HELP), announced $1,006,097 in federal funding to support individuals studying to become nurses at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Old Dominion University (ODU). The funding is awarded by the Health Resources & Services Administration’s (HRSA) Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program, the Nurse Faculty Loan Program, a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Committee’s passage of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act (PAHPARA)—which includes critical provisions inspired by Kaine legislation on data modernization and Long COVID—readying the legislation for a vote before the full Senate: “Throughout my conversations with Virginia...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and John Fetterman (D-PA) reintroduced legislation to support family members of miners who have passed away due to black lung disease. Currently bureaucratic requirements place unnecessarily strict burdens of proof on survivors in order to access the benefits to which they are entitled. The Relief for Survivors of Miners Act would ease restrictions to ma...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee cosponsored the My Body, My Data Act, legislation that would create a new national standard to protect reproductive and sexual health data by minimizing the information collected and retained and preventing that information from being disclosed or misused. Currently, few protections exist to prevent personal reproductive health data or information about people seeki...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL)—members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—applauded the Senate’s vote to formally add their bipartisan bill to explicitly prohibit any President of the United States from withdrawing from NATO without Senate approval or an Act of Congress to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  The Senate is expected to pass the NDAA soon. “Between Putin’s war in Ukraine and...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $44,606,006 in federal funding for Virginia airports.Funds were made available through the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) FY 2023 Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which funds airport infrastructure projects such as runways, taxiways, airport signage, airport lighting, and airport markings. “Local airports are crucial for travel to, from, and thro...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reintroduced the Preparing and Retaining Education Professionals (PREP) Act, bipartisan legislation to address teacher and principal shortages, particularly in rural communities, and increase teacher diversity. This legislation would help ensure that there are enough teachers and principals with the right skills and tools to prepa...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine joined 49 of their colleagues in reintroducing the Freedom to Vote Act, legislation to improve access to the ballot for Americans, advance commonsense federal election standards and campaign finance reforms, and protect American democracy. Kaine played an instrumental role in negotiating the legislation, which includes various provisions that have already been enacted in Virginia, including automatic voter registratio...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) are now accepting applications for the position of United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Virginia, to succeed United States District Court Judge Michael F. Urbanski, who will assume senior status effective July 4, 2024. An independent panel of lawyers assembled by the senators will review applications and interview qualified individuals. The senators will then use those recommendations, as we...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding the General Services Administration’s (GSA) announcement of adjusted selection criteria for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new headquarters: “The GSA didn’t pluck its initial criteria out of thin air—it spent years talking to experts and carefully deliberating on what is best for the mission of the FBI. While we are concerned that these ...Continue Reading

PHOTOS AVAILABLE HERE VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in Hampton Roads, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Chair of the Senate Armed Services (SASC) Subcommittee on Seapower, along with Australian Ambassador to the United States and former Prime Minister of Australia Dr. Kevin Rudd and U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven, discussed the importance of the Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) agreement, in which Australia will purchase at least three and up to five Virg...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, as well as Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Peter Welch (D-VT), released the following statement after a Guatemalan court disqualified one of the political parties: “We are deeply disturbed by the Guatemalan government’s unprecedented interference against the electoral process following the ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), filed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate is expected to take up on the floor next week. Kaine’s amendments include his bipartisan bill to prevent any U.S. President from leaving the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and his bipartisan bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) agai...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), issued statements hailing the bipartisan Committee approval of an amendment that deepens the partnership between Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States (AUKUS). This amendment — now a component of the bipartisan State Department Authorization Act of 2023 — authorizes the transfer of nuclear-powered, conventionally-arm...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), and U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) introduced bicameral legislation to help first-time, first-generation homebuyers – predominately Americans of color – build wealth much more rapidly. By offering new homeowners a 20-year mortgage for roughly the same monthly payment as a traditional 30-year loan, LIFT will allow indivi...Continue Reading