Legislator Tim Kaine, D-Virginia
Obligations
Throughout the 119 th Republican-controlled Congress, Kaine segued from chair to ranking participant of the Us senate Seapower Subcommittee. Its legal objective is to supervise Navy and Marine Corps preparation, operations plan and programs, much less space, plus cyber, nuclear weapons, and special procedures, among other responsibilities.
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“One of my leading concerns this year as Seapower placing member is to make reforms to address construction and upkeep delays and get our naval programs back on track.”
Committees
- Member of: Subcommittee on Readiness Management Assistance; Subcommittee on Emerging Hazards and Capacities; Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism: and Subcommittee on the State Division and USAID Monitoring, International Operations and Bilateral International Growth.
- Ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Protection, Freedom, Human Rights and Global Women’s Problems. His concerns are to “address movement, counter narcotics contraband, and development democratic organizations and the rule of regulation across the hemisphere.” Worked as chair for the 118 th Congress.
- Member of the Us Senate Health, Education And Learning, Labor and Pensions Board. A lifelong advocate for affordable education and learning, he co-introduced bipartisan legislation offering temporary work training programs through the federal Pell Grants in 2025, saying, “No person ought to be priced out of an education and learning– consisting of a technical education. The legislation is called the Jumpstarting Our Organizations by Supporting Students (JOBS) Act.
- Co-founded the Us Senate Profession and Technical Education And Learning (CTE) Caucus, to name a few. Offers now as co-chair.
Political/Professional Profession
- Elected to the US Senate in 2013 Ended up being the Autonomous candidate for vice president along with Hillary Clinton in 2016
- Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 via 2011
- Virginia guv from 2006 to 2010
- Lieutenant guv of Virginia from 2002 to 2006
- Mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001
- First chosen as a city council member in 1994
- Worked as an attorney for 17 years in Richmond, concentrating on reasonable housing regulation. He also educated law at the College of Richmond.
- During his early civil service profession, he was involved in several non-profits, consisting of a technological school established by Jesuit missionaries in Honduras where he educated young adults in carpentry and welding skills.
Education
- College of Missouri– BA in Business economics in 1979
- Harvard Regulation School– JD level in 1983
Personal
- Born Feb. 26, 1958, in Saint Paul, Minn., to Mary Kathleen, née Burns, and Albert Kaine, Jr. Matured in Overland Park, Kan., where his father owned a small iron-working shop.
- Met his fiancée, Anne Holton, in legislation college. Both were married in 1984 and together, have three youngsters. Like her partner, Anne is a lawyer and long time advocate of economical education, with a background of public service/policy. She is the child of A. Linwood Holton Jr., who was the guv of Virginia in the 1970 s.