Tim Kaine

should you be confirmed, I would really like to work with you on this issue with the ex-offender community.

It is depressing to contemplate the atrocities in Tigray, the upcoming election, which is of questionable legitimacy and could lead to more strife and violence.

Well, thank you. Mr. President, I want to thank my best friend in politics, Senator Mark Warner. And I just realized something. John Warner defeated in an election my best friend in politics, and John Warner also defeated in an election my…

There is no need to fundamentally restructure our Nation from a free market capitalism to pretend worker's paradise under the thumb of Washington.

I am thrilled to rise and join my colleagues in pressing the case for DC statehood. I won't be long because I was on the floor about 3 weeks ago talking about this same matter. I really talked about Virginia then. I talked about Patrick…

Mr. president. There are significant racial and ethnic inequities in maternal and infant mortality rates in the U.S. American Indian/Alaska Native women are more than twice as likely as nonHispanic white women to die as a result of…

It is very widely supported on both sides of the aisle. And I hope my colleagues will join me in doing something really important for the healthcare of our healers.

I have even, Mr. Chairman, started a rankle when I hear people talking about our healthcare workers as heroes.

We have to do things to break down any stigma about seeking mental health training among our professionals.

I hope that the administration might lean in heavier but whether they do or whether they don`t. I`m on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee and I`m going to say loudly that there ought to be a ceasefire.

I have signed on as a cosponsor to Senator Booker's bill to set up a commission to look at the idea of reparations.

If you do not understand the threats coming from the Mideast to our national security and that of our allies, you are making a very dangerous mistake.

I think one of the challenges that we often deal with across Government is the U.S. wants to do everything but we do not want to fund everything.

I am disappointed to hear the Biden administration advocating to unilaterally surrender U.S. intellectual property to China.

The idea of pivoting from one threat area to another is not an option. You have to deal with all the threats.

I think it was you, Ms. Smithberger, who may have said something about inadequate testing. This is a huge problem with the Pentagon.

The American free enterprise system created the vaccines that are saving lives and restoring freedom around the world.

If we are going to make cuts--and we should always analyze whether we should--we should not make them non-strategically.

There is just this danger if everybody is somebody that nobody is anybody.

I think we need to take a look at that and figure out how to respond.

I think when it comes to vaccine diplomacy, we have some significant and hard decisions to make about prioritization.

So if we are going to make cuts, we should really try to find what is fraudulent, what is abusive, what is wasteful.

We must reassure Americans that COVID vaccines are safe. Vaccines save lives.

We cannot assure, without painting that picture for them, what that looks like.

When the day comes where the President declares that the national emergency is over, there is still going to be at least two challenges: Long COVID, and then the mental health challenges that have resulted from a year of such loss.