
Tim Kaine highlights wins for Virginia in 2018 Senate defense bill
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine released the following statement on the Committee’s Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine released the following statement on the Committee’s Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

So, we still don’t know if that was Ralph Northam in that awful blackface photo. This we learn from the final report on the photo controversy released today, which, shrug.

With summer vacation season just around the corner, Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) are drawing attention to an unexpected danger to beachgoers: flying beach umbrellas.

The U.S. Air Force has identified Joint Base Langley-Eustis as the candidate base for the F-22 Raptor formal training unit and associated T-38 aircraft.

New legislation would allow states that expanded Medicaid after 2014 or expand in the years ahead to receive the same full federal matching funds as states that expanded earlier under the terms of the Affordable Care Act.

The controversy over Virginia political leaders and blackface seems to have calmed down, and a new Quinnipiac University Poll buttresses that supposition.

Word at this writing, late Saturday morning, is that Gov. Ralph Northam is working the phones with Virginia Democrats, trying to find a way to survive the day politically.

Legislation offered by Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, to give federal employees a 2.6 percent pay increase passed the House of the Representatives.

We are rapidly moving through the 2019 short session. One of the main sticking points is disagreement over how to use the budget surplus.

The Emergency Relief for Federal Workers Act of 2019 would ensure that federal employees can access money from their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) without penalty.
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