Tim Kaine

Today is thank-you day for me at all my Committee hearings.

Throughout his time in office, President Donald Trump repeatedly disparaged our NATO allies and reportedly threatened withdrawal from the NATO alliance, the bedrock of European and American security for over seventy years. Although our…

I am going to be working with Senators Warner, Cardin, and Kaine to reauthorize the Federal commitment there.

I want to thank them for being on the front lines during this pandemic, putting themselves at risk to continue to carry people to work.

I have a passion about eliminating, root and branch, the way we treat people with career and technical degrees.

The U.S. Infrastructure system is in critical need of an upgrade. In February 2021, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) graded 11 of 17 infrastructure categories a D+ or worse. Systems across the Nation are in dire need of…

Let`s make it easier to vote. Let`s make it easier to early vote. Let`s make sure the lines aren`t too long.

Change can happen. Even in the most impossible seeming places.

I prayed Virginia would end the death penalty.

I think data helps us understand inequities.

If we just have a system that's 'equal,' like first-come, first-serve, everybody in 1B can get online and try to sign up, we're guaranteed to end up with outcomes that are inequitable.

It seems to me that one of the important kinds of lessons from this pandemic is our public health data systems are inadequate.

The folks who have been hit the hardest by the virus probably have the hardest time accessing vaccine registration.

I think the equity discussion around vaccines has been a really good one to kind of demonstrate to people the difference between equality, which we should always desire, and equity, which we should certainly aspire to.

The disparity in the way that we tax earnings from work as opposed to earnings from wealth does not make any sense.

I think this is a very important one.

I like that idea. I would still have progressive rates, but I do like applying the same rate to income wherever it comes from.

Why not have a Tax Code that basically kind of treats income as income and applies the same tax rates to all kinds of income?

I would love to have a significant discussion about tax reform.

It says that you like investment a lot more than you like work.

The gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor.

I just viewed it as a set of tax cuts benefiting people at the top.

I think high quality career and technical education has got to be part of our entire educational palette from pre-K to 12.

I would hope with your own experience, should you be confirmed, that you will really be promoting the use of these dollars to use the summers of 2021 and 2022 to deal with the learning loss phenomenon.

I really hope a lot of these dollars go into enhanced summer experiences for the students to deal with learning loss issues.