Tim Kaine

The idea of a moratorium basically would be saying to all our competitors in the world we have an edge on this now but we’re going to let you catch up and race ahead of us.

Some communities may have too many, but some would like the opportunity to have one of these data centers that pay a lot of local taxes.

I would also point out that the United States is using force to block energy from going to Cuba, and that has led to the cancelation of 100,000 surgeries in hospitals, including 11,000 for children. It has led to massive power blackouts…

I believe immigrants are a strength and not a problem. That doesn't mean there aren't issues that we need to resolve, but I think it is high time that people in this Chamber talked about immigrants to this country and recognized the…

I think it is time--not just because of the shutdown--it is time to advance these bills to the President's desk. I appreciate that colleagues are recognizing what we need to do is advance those bills and then focus in a very intense…

Only Congress can declare war — or in the modern phrase contained in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, authorize the use of military force in hostilities.

Long past time for Congress to reassert its critical constitutional role in matters of war, peace, diplomacy and trade.

Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans…

I think it is important on matters of this importance, especially war, when 200 combatants have been killed--and that number is climbing--when U.S. troops have been injured--two still in the hospital--when U.S. assets are arrayed around…

It was time to 'close the book' on the wars.

We’re going to have the health-care debate in full view of the American public, and they’re going to see who’s standing up for them on affordability and who’s not.

The circumstances have changed in the months since we had that vote.

It's time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say-so, which is not what the Constitution allowed.

If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DoD's own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance.

The president's decision to say, OK, this particular criminal, who should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, who came in under an asylum grant... don't say that all Afghans in the United States... are bad.

This is shocking. And again, this is not an individual who was accused of running drugs to the United States. He was convicted in a federal court in the United States.

This rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true

If the report was accurate, the attack rises to the level of a war crime.

It completely undercuts the administration’s claim that they really care about narco-trafficking, and that raises the question of what is really going on with the Venezuela operation.

I think it’s fair to test another side’s red lines in a negotiation.

Don’t ask me to assume failure on the effort that we’re undertaking.

If they don’t take it up, I’ll give you a prediction: The November 2026 elections are going to look a whole lot worse for Republicans than the November 2025 elections did.

Frankly, I viewed the situation last weekend as we had no path, none, to a health care fix until we reopened government.

I don’t need to freelance opinions about House leadership.

I don’t tell Ro Khanna or AOC or anybody else who you should pick as your House leader, because I got a full-time job being a senator.