Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States holding that a President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for exercise of “core constitutional powers,” presumptively immune from prosecution for other official acts, and not immune from prosecution for unofficial conduct. “The principle that nobody is above the law has been at the core of our constitutional system of government sin...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and 10 of his colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Lloyd Austin urging the DOD to implement policies to expand access to contraception for servicemembers. In the letter, the senators call on DOD to comply with the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by revising the form used for periodic healt...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Moyle v. United States, which dismissed the case, allowing Idaho doctors to perform some emergency abortions while the case is pending in the lower courts but leaving doctors and patients nationwide in limbo about the scope of their access to emergency abortion care: “This decision only temporarily protects access to some emergency abortions in Idaho. It doesn’t negate...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD-03), Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Rob Wittman (R-VA-01) and Andy Harris (R-MD-01) in sending a letter to the Principals’ Staff Committee of the Chesapeake Executive Council emphasizing the need for continued commitment to the goals of the 2014 Chesapeake Watershed Agreement, a landmark accord that established goals and outcomes for the restoration of the Bay, its tributaries and th...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $7,976,508 in federal funding to support infrastructure improvements in the City of Suffolk, Franklin and Bedford Counties, and the Town of Rocky Mount. The funding was awarded through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Equity (RAISE) grant program, which received historic levels of support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that the senators helped pass. “After many years...Continue Reading

VIDEO OF KAINE AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey: “The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has opened the floodgates to draconian restrictions on reproductive freedom. In ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Rahimi, which upheld a federal law barring individuals under a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) from possessing firearms: “I'm glad that the Supreme Court has upheld this critical law protecting domestic violence survivors. It's important to ensure that abusers don't have access to firearms, which is why I'm a cosponsor of several bills to s...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) announced the reintroduction of their legislation, the Medicare-X Choice Act, which would create a public option by expanding on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare. The Medicare Exchange (Medicare-X) plan would offer families, individuals, and small businesses affordable health insurance, decrease the number of uninsured Americans, control the cost of health care, and increase competition in the healt...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), joined a bicameral group of lawmakers in sending a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging the Biden Administration to consider Palestinian refugees with U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident family members for resettlement in the U.S. In the letter, lawmakers expressed strong suppor...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) applauded President Biden’s nomination of Christy Goldsmith Romero of Virginia to be Chair and Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): “I’m excited that President Biden nominated Christy Goldsmith Romero, who grew up in Hampton Roads, to chair the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. She is superbly qualified and has significant experience at financial regulatory agencies, including spending a decade as Special Inspect...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Representatives Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA) introduced the Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2024, bicameral legislation that would nearly double the Pell Grant maximum award, index the maximum award for inflation, and make other changes to expand the award for working students and families. The Pell Grant program is the corner...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led the introduction of a Senate resolution that acknowledges and apologizes for the mistreatment of and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) individuals who have served our nation in the uniformed services, as civil servants, or in the Foreign Service. “LGBT civil servants, foreign service officers and serv...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following significant problems with the rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) this year, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) are urging the Department of Education Office of Inspector General (OIG) to issue a quick review of problems with the form’s rollout and provide a course for corrective action. This move by Sens. Warner and Kaine comes as incoming high school seniors across the country prepare to fill out the FAFSA form as pa...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced his cosponsorship of two pieces of legislation—the Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act and the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act—that would ban bump stocks, devices that turn semiautomatic weapons into machine guns by increasing their rate of fire. Kaine’s cosponsorships follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that overturned a ban on bump stocks. “In 2017, a gunman used a rapid-fire rifle b...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chair of the SASC Subcommittee on Seapower, released the following statement after SASC passed the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The legislation includes key provisions Kaine secured to advance U.S. national security priorities, support servicemembers and their families, benefit Virginia’s robust defense community, and boost efforts to work collaborati...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked the Right to IVF Act, legislation he introduced to protect and expand access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technology (ART) services nationwide: “The first IVF baby in America, Elizabeth Carr, was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1981. Since her birth, millions of Ame...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of colleagues in reintroducing the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, legislation that would streamline the prior authorization process under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to allow older Americans to get the care they need faster and to help health care providers prioritize patients over paperwork.   Prior authorization is...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg raising concerns about the near collision of two planes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on May 29 and the airport’s capacity for more flights. They asked Secretary Buttigieg about how DOT and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plan to implement a provision in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, which Warner a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, on the same day that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved operations of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding his vote against Mr. David Rosner. Mr. Rosner was nominated to serve as a member of FERC, the agency responsible for overseeing the permitting process and regulating the transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. Kaine’s vote follows significant concerns from Virginians r...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), announced the introduction of the State Department Integrity and Transparency Act, legislation to strengthen the State Department workforce and ensure senior State Department leaders are selected based on merit—not money or politics. The bill would ensure these positions are staffed by nonpartisan, experienced, and thoroughly vetted foreign policy professionals. The legislation is cospons...Continue Reading