Senate ’12: Kaine talks pay fairness, retirement security, Allen receives endorsement
Kaine urges Senate action on Paycheck Fairness Act Ahead of the upcoming vote in the U.S. Senate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, Tim Kaine issued the following statement:
“The Paycheck Fairness Act is a common sense measure and an important step toward ensuring equal pay for equal work in Virginia and across the country. In Virginia, women still earn only 79 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts, limiting their economic opportunity. For hundreds of thousands of Virginia households that are headed by women, this results is thousands of dollars of lost income at a time when every dollar counts. Read more
Politics Notebook: Kaine talks Social Security, new Obama TV ad
Kaine discusses Social Security in Martinsville On Tuesday, Tim Kaine met with retirees and seniors in Martinsville as part of his two week tour to discuss ways to strengthen Social Security and Medicare and other issues of importance to older Americans.
At each tour stop, Kaine has called for commonsense reforms like allowing the government to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. He has also emphasized the need to strengthen existing Social Security benefits and prevent a shift in Social Security dollars to private accounts that are vulnerable to volatile market forces. Read more
Politcs Notebook: On the campaign trail
Poll: Obama leads Romney in PA by eight Public Policy Polling’s latest survey of Pennsylvania voters has President Barack Obama leading Republican rival Mitt Romney by eight points.
The 50 percent-to-42 percent lead is basically identical to the 49 percent-42 percent lead that Obama had over Romney in a March PPP poll.
Key to the Obama advantage is his relative popularity – with 48% approving and 49% disapproving of the job he’s doing as president, while Romney has 37% of voters rating him positively to 51% with a negative opinion. Read more
Politics Notebook: On the campaign trail
Kaine statement on U.S. Senate budget votes In response to the votes the U.S. Senate took on five proposed budgets yesterday, Tim Kaine released the following statement:
“The Senate voted down five bad budgets yesterday. They proved once again that they can block action, even on the most important and critical matters of the day. Read more
Kaine calls out Allen on debt-limit issue
Congressional Republicans are promising gridlock over the debt limit, and U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine is taking aim at Republican rival George Allen on the topic.
“My chief opponent in this election is a prime example of backward Washington thinking on our budget. During his first term in the U.S. Senate, George Allen voted four times for debt ceiling increases, voted repeatedly against commonsense measures to control spending like PAYGO, and voted for massive deficit spending,” Kaine said. “After years of voting for increased spending without paying for it, Allen had an election-year conversion and decided to stand with the Tea Party in cheering on government shutdown. Virginia chambers of commerce, local governments, and our Republican governor all urged George Allen and his allies to set aside politics and work toward a deal, but they refused. Read more
Kaine gets student PAC endorsement
Today, Students for a New American Politics, the nation’s largest student-run political action committee, endorsed former Gov. Tim Kaine in his campaign to become the next senator from the state of Virginia.
“For his entire life, Gov. Kaine has worked to create opportunities for our businesses and our families,” said SNAP PAC Executive Director Matthew Breuer. “We’re so excited by his candidacy because not only does he understand the needs of struggling Virginia families today, he also has a clear vision of how we can ensure our nation’s global economic competitiveness by building the world’s most talented workforce. Read more
American Conservative Union endorses Allen
The American Conservative Union today endorsed George Allen for U.S. Senate, citing his extensive record of conservative leadership for fiscal responsibility, government transparency and accountability, and pro-life policies.
The ACU is America’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization, providing conservative policy positions to government, the media and the public and issuing ratings on voting records in Congress. Read more
