Tim Kaine

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

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.

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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 think data helps us understand inequities.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I think this is a very important one.

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

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

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

I hope that the United States Government and this Administration will think about the Caribbean as an integral part of this community.

Thank you to Chairman Menendez and Senator Risch for holding this hearing, very important hearing.

By not supporting the OAS at a critical moment when you were willing to show backbone, Hondurans paid a major price, the OAS paid a price, and the United States paid a price as well.