Tim Kaine

Lorna Breen was a talented and dynamic physician who served as the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital. Lorna was from Charlottesville, VA, and very devoted to her family there. She attended…

With that, I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll

There are significant racial and ethnic inequities in maternal and infant mortality rates in the U.S. According to the CDC, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women in 2018 is more than 2.5 times higher than the maternal…

I rise tonight to speak about a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act that would direct the renaming of military bases and facilities that are currently named for those who voluntarily fought for the Confederacy during the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 316, S. 906. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 906) to improve the…

I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported amendment be agreed to and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The committee-reported amendment was…

I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 906), as amended, was passed, as follows S. 906 Be it enacted by the…

I rise to briefly discuss a matter that is contained within the NDAA bill that is currently pending before the Senate, a matter for which I sponsored as an amendment, in the Committee on Armed Services' markup on the bill, that received…

I rise to speak about the disturbing reporting regarding Russian efforts to harm Americans in Afghanistan through payments to the Taliban and the Haqqani network. This is deadly serious and we--the Congress and the American public--must…

I appreciate my Senate colleague's desire to increase accountability and transparency of student outcomes. As Governor, I was doing the same thing with Virginia institutions. I view his request as a little bit of a non sequitur. It is not…

before I get to the motion I am going to make, I am going to take just a few minutes to discuss the importance of why the Senate must pass the Coronavirus Relief Flexibility for Students and Institutions Act, which is S. 3947. This has to…

When the Senator has markups in the Judiciary Committee on a bill like the FIRST STEP Act and someone, Democrat or Republican, proposes an amendment to mark, isn't it the standard to vote on the amendment and if the majority of the…

I came to the floor to hear my colleague from South Carolina, with no notes and with an open heart and open ears, because I knew he would be very disappointed that the motion to proceed failed and that he would have strong feelings about…

the Senator from Nebraska is a member of the Judiciary Committee, isn't that right?

My experience on every committee I have been on is that we leave it to a markup in the committee with a simple majority, not allowing a simple majority amendment process in committee, but saying ``no, we will give you some amendments on…

on Saturday, I attended a rally for justice sponsored by two young women--one, a high-schooler and one a middle-schooler--in my hometown. The rally was one of numerous marches and rallies that have occurred every day, sometimes multiple…

on March 27 Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in response to the ongoing public health and economic crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act included a Higher Education…

I rise to speak about President Trump's veto of S.J. Res. 68, a veto that he communicated to the Senate by a statement yesterday afternoon. We debated this at length in February. So there is no need to spend too much time on the substance…

I ask unanimous consent to add my colleague, Senator Brown from Ohio, as a cosponsor to S.J. Res. 68. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered S.J. Res. 68

I rise to discuss the next steps the Senate should take in dealing with the COVID-19 global pandemic. I applaud the bipartisan result Congress has shown in passing four important pieces of legislation to provide trillions of dollars of aid…

I ask permission to speak for up to the full 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I had not intended to speak today. Yet, in my office, as I was alternately talking to Virginians and colleagues about our goal to find an economic package that will backstop workers and the American economy, I had the TV on. I was watching…

like my colleague from Missouri, I also rise to address the Nation's response to the COVID-19 virus. In particular, I want to discuss the next steps we need to take at the Federal level to deal with this health emergency and the severe…

our Nation's continued progress and the socioeconomic mobility of our citizens are contingent on the education and skills of the American workforce and its ability to adjust to and fulfill the needs of the 21st-century economy. Career and…

I rise to speak with respect to final passage of S.J. Res. 68, which will be the next item of business before us. I will speak briefly because I have been on the floor about this a few times in the last week or two. First, I want to thank…