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Syria could have used chemical weapons. Or it could not have. The question is not uninteresting or amoral or unimportant or boring, but it is completely and utterly irrelevant to the question of war.
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U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Todd Young (R-IN), and Doug Jones (D-AL), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Jobs Plus Recovery Act to incorporate job training into drug addiction recovery programs.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) joined a group of Senators in a letter to Senate appropriators calling on them to commit to using the full $2 billion that was allocated in last month’s bipartisan budget agreement for its intended purpose of repairing and modernizing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) infrastructure.
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A state-by-state analysis released for Equal Pay Day tomorrow reveals that a woman employed full time, year-round in Virginia is typically paid just 80 cents for every dollar paid to a man – a yearly pay difference of $11,019.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement today after Facebook announced that it removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts — as well as 138 Facebook pages — that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA).
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Attorney General Mark Herring filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from undermining the 2020 decennial census with a “poison pill” citizenship inquiry that the U.S. Census Bureau has said is likely to depress response and compromise the accuracy of the census.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined a group of 41 senators in a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Leandra English and OMB Director Mick Mulvaney urging them to end any efforts to undermine and repeal the CFPB’s payday lending rule.
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Pride Fund to End Gun Violence PAC announced today its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine for re-election to the U.S. Senate, citing the Democrat’s longstanding commitment to fighting for LGBTQ equality and his backing of commonsense gun safety measures.
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Over a million students and allies walked out of classes in the U.S., from Maine to Hawaii, and elsewhere in the world on March 14. Ten days later, March 24, hundreds of thousands of defiant marchers flooded the streets in Washington, D.C., and at more than 800 places on every continent except Antarctica. What might they do next?
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) released the following statement after the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Tim Thomas, President Trump’s nominee to be the Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
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