Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and his colleagues in sending a letter urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to simplify the tax filing process and expand access to free e-filing options. The Inflation Reduction Act, which Kaine voted to pass last year, included funding to improve customer service at the IRS and modernize IRS systems to process tax returns quickly, get rebates to taxpayers faster, and a...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, led the reintroduction of the Supporting Our Direct Care Workforce and Family Caregivers Act, legislation to support the recruitment, training, and retention of direct care workers and family caregivers. “Families throughout Virginia and across America rely on the support of our direct care workers and family caregivers,” said Kaine. “When these worker...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, during National Fair Housing Month, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a former fair housing attorney, and U.S. Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA-50) and Adam Schiff (D-CA-30) reintroduced the Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2023 to protect veterans and low-income families from housing discrimination. 2.3 million veterans and low-income households use Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) to pay rent, but there are no federal protections to prevent individuals from being denied ho...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) today announced the allocation of $1,226,527 to Virginia for the Commonwealth’s airport system through two grants distributed by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration. Specifically, the Department of Transportation has awarded $476,527 to Luray Caverns Airport  in Luray, Virginia for the construction of a 4,600 square foot terminal building to meet the operation...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, joined Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Todd Young (R-IN) in introducing bipartisan legislation to improve access to affordable child care for families with parents working nontraditional hours. The After Hours Child Care Act would expand existing child care programs or establish new facilities in some cases, so parents can remain in the workforce and provide for t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere—and U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX)—the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere—are leading 116 lawmakers in calling on the Biden Administration to continue to protect displaced Salvadorans and Hondurans by redesignating El Salvador and Honduras for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Est...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) today voted to pass the Fire Grants and Safety Act, legislation to ensure years of continued funding for grant programs that support fire departments and firefighters all across the Commonwealth. Today’s vote in the Senate comes as two critical funding programs near their 2024 expiration deadline. “Virginia firefighters routinely put themselves at risk to save lives and stop catastroph...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Brian Schatz (D-HI) and his colleagues in reintroducing legislation to allow doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to prescribe medical marijuana to veterans in states with established medical marijuana programs, including the Commonwealth of Virginia. Under current law, doctors in Virginia are able to prescribe medical marijuana to help patients manage pain; however, doctors at the VA are only allowed to discuss medical ma...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined 22 of his Senate colleagues today in introducing the Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act—new, comprehensive legislation that would prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from abusing their positions for personal financial gain by owning or trading securities, commodities, or futures. The same legislation is being led by U.S. Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine—a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee—released the following statement regarding the Executive Order President Biden signed to make child and long-term care more accessible and affordable: “Parents are being locked out of the workforce because they can’t affordable child care. Critical workers who are passionate about child and long-term care are being forced to leave their fiel...Continue Reading

PHOTOS/REMARKS FROM KAINE AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced he will vote to confirm President Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary nominee, Julie Su, following his meeting with her. Su currently serves as DOL Deputy Secretary and will appear before the HELP Committee for her nomination hearing on Thursday. If confirmed by the Senate, Su will be the first Asian Amer...Continue Reading

PHOTOS FROM KAINE’S SWVA TOUR AVAILABLE HERE WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine hosted an event at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap to discuss clean energy tax credits, economic development, and job creation in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Kaine helped pass last year. The event came from an idea Kaine had to bring local leaders, state and federal government officials, and businesses together to strategize on how to take advantage of the IRA...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following a federal district court judge’s ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s 2000 approval of mifepristone, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, along with 238 other members of Congress, submitted an amicus brief urging a higher court to prevent that dangerous ruling from going into effect. Mifepristone is a safe and effective medication that has been widely used for abortion care and miscarriage management for over two ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), John Boozman (R-AR), and Mike Braun (R-IN) in reintroducing bipartisan legislation to make higher education more accessible and affordable by expanding opportunities for high school students to obtain college credit. The Making Education Affordable and Accessible Act (MEAA) would expand the use of existing federal grants available for higher education institutions to support dual or concurrent enrollment ini...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement regarding U.S. Representative Jennifer Wexton’s announcement that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease: “Jennifer Wexton is a fighter. I’ve seen it running alongside her in 2018, and I’ve seen it serving Virginians alongside her in Congress as we’ve pushed for priorities like rebuilding our infrastructure, lowering costs, improving childhood cancer research, and ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine teamed up with U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA), and 19 of their colleagues in Congress in sending a letter calling on the Chief Justice of the United States to launch an ethics investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas’s extensive billionaire-funded luxury travel and other outstanding allegations of misconduct. The letter comes a day after a bombshell ProPublica report exposed that J...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) in introducing the Smarter Sentencing Act, bipartisan legislation to modernize federal drug sentencing policies by lowering mandatory minimum sentences for certain nonviolent drug offenses. The bill would provide federal judges with more flexibility to determine penalties for nonviolent offenses, allowing judges flexibility to apply the harshest penalties where circumstances warrant or to moder...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine are encouraging Virginia school districts, local governments, non-profits, and other eligible entities to apply for federal funding to help address school safety and reduce community violence. The funding was made possible by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), legislation the senators voted to pass last year to curb gun violence following mass shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo, and communities across the country. ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and his colleagues in introducing the Background Check Completion Act, legislation to close a current loophole—known as the “Charleston loophole”—that allows gun sales to proceed if a background check is not completed within a certain time period, even if the gun buyer is not legally allowed to purchase a gun. This gap in existing law has allowed thousands of guns to be sold to prohib...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), applauded Senate passage of their bipartisan legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) and formally end the Gulf and Iraq wars. Today’s vote to repeal the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs comes after the 20th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom and marks the first time in over five decades that the Senate has vo...Continue Reading