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Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine (born February 26, 1958) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Virginia since 2013. He is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States, in the 2016 election. On July 22, 2016, Hillary Clinton announced that she had selected Kaine as her running mate.


Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Kaine earned a law degree from Harvard Law School before entering private practice and becoming a lecturer at the University of Richmond School of Law. Kaine was first elected to public office in 1994, when he won a seat on the Richmond, Virginia City Council. He was then elected Mayor of Richmond in 1998, serving in that position until being elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 2002.

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Hillary Clinton's ex-running mate, Tim Kaine, says Donald Trump should probably stop attacking Special Counsel Robert Mueller ... 'cause appearances (of guilt) are everything. We got the Virginia Senator Monday in D.C., where we asked what he made of Trump's recent flurry of gripes about Mueller's ...
On one morning in the thick of the 2016 campaign, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., remembers getting an unusual warning from his staff: there's a recording online of you yelling at your mistress. Kaine was more bemused by that news than anything, secure in the knowledge that he had no mistress to berate.

When Tim Kaine was running his first statewide race back in 2001, Virginia was solid red. The following year, Democrats didn't even bother fielding a candidate against longtime Republican senator John Warner. Now the pendulum is swinging in the other direction. Stephen Farnsworth at the University of ...
Tim Kaine. Like almost everyone in the country, Kaine expected his running mate, Hillary Clinton, to prevail against Republican Donald Trump in the race for president. It wasn't until about 10 o'clock on election night that the possibility began to arise that Kaine's future would be as a member of the Senate ...
Tim Kaine, D-Va., said that he has concerns about implementing a healthcare system in the U.S. that would move every citizen onto Medicare, as has been proposed by more than a dozen of his Democratic colleagues. "I've got some concerns about it," Kaine said, speaking at the Federation of American ...
The Richmond chapter for “Moms Demand Action” – a national organization created after the school massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School – met with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine earlier this week to talk about school safety – and gun control. Kaine then co-sponsored a bill that would ban 205 ...

A Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates roiled his Democratic colleagues Friday when he delivered a speech in which he suggested many people who commit mass shootings come from "broken homes" and blamed the "abortion industry" for helping to foster such a dangerous society for ...
Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine yesterday took to the floor of the Senate to urge Republican leadership to take up legislation to tighten gun control. He was mayor when Richmond was among the deadliest cities in the nation and he was Governor during the Virginia Tech massacre and he says the ...
Democratic 2016 VP candidate Tim Kaine told CNN's Chris Cuomo that the Trump administration is not doing enough to "protect American democracy" from foreign adversaries like Russia, after the U.S. government "failed" in 2016. CNN, CHRIS CUOMO: What was your level of surprise to hear Mike Rogers ...
On the same day that students started returning to the Florida high school where 17 were killed, former vice presidential candidate and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine joined roughly 300 parents and teachers in Fairfax. The group Moms Demand Action wants lawmakers to act when it comes to gun safety. “I'm a mom of two and ...

John Jackson, co-owner of Capitol City Arms Supply shows off an AR-15 assault rifle for sale Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at his business in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman). AA. WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSET) -- Following the tragic shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Florida, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine has ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine plans to hold a round table discussion in Richmond Monday morning on how to improve school safety. This comes in the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentines Day. Seventeen ...
"Radford University is honored to celebrate the academic achievement and success of the Class of 2018 with Senator Tim Kaine," said President Brian O. Hemphill. "Senator Kaine's reflections on leadership at the highest levels and service to the Commonwealth of Virginia and its citizens reflect Radford's focus on teaching, ...
Sen. Tim Kaine is calling on the Trump administration to disclose a memo that he says outlines the legal basis for U.S. airstrikes conducted last year in Syria. "The fact that there is a lengthy memo with a more detailed legal justification that has not been shared with Congress, or the American public, ...
ARLINGTON, Va. - Senator Tim Kaine visited a high school in Northern Virginia on Friday to answer student questions about gun violence and school safety. ... Virginia Senator Tim Kaine holds a listening session with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia on Friday, March 16, 2018. photo ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Monday morning, concerned parents asked Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to strengthen gun laws, in an effort to prevent the next school shooting. The round table discussion took place with the Richmond chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, in the Shenandoah Room of ...


 

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