[9] Kaine practiced law in Richmond for 17 years, specializing in fair housing law and representing clients discriminated against on the basis of race or disability. Texas. [261], In 2006, Kaine campaigned against an amendment to the Virginia State Constitution to ban same-sex marriage,[262] and in March 2013, Kaine announced his support of same-sex marriage. [3] The New York Times had said that Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, privately supported Kaine as his wife's vice-presidential selection. [288][290], Kaine favors an increase in the minimum wage. [220] To maintain democracy in democratic countries, Kaine proposes the creation of an intergovernmental organization consisting of all the world's democracies in which states can cooperate on solutions to problems such as corruption and voter inclusion. [133] At an event at George Mason University, Kaine said that with Trump in office, Americans "are in a 'living experiment' to see whether or not the Constitution still works to check executive power. Virginia Beach 222 Central Park Avenue, Suite 120 Virginia Beach, VA 23462 Phone: (757) 518-1674 Fax: (757) 518-1679 Directions [248], In 2018, Kaine, along with fellow Democratic senator Michael Bennet, proposed the creation of "Medicare X"—a public health insurance option modeled after Medicare that would be available on ACA health insurance marketplaces along with private options. [53][54] Kaine also won Republican-leaning areas in Northern Virginia's outer suburbs, including Prince William County and Loudoun County, where George W. Bush had beat John Kerry in the previous year's presidential election,[53] and performed "surprisingly well in Republican strongholds like Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. [23], During his tenure as mayor, Kaine drew criticism for spending $6,000 in public funds on buses to the Million Mom March, an anti-gun-violence rally in Washington, D.C.; after a backlash, Kaine raised the money privately and reimbursed the city. [7] Kaine worked in Honduras for nine months from 1980 to 1981. [287], Kaine is "generally pro-union" and has received a 96 percent lifetime Senate voting rating from the AFL-CIO,[146] which praised his selection as vice presidential nominee. Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine (born February 26, 1958) is an American politician. That kind of message can sell anywhere. [17], Kaine was chairman of the Southern Governors' Association from 2008 to 2009. He should not have done this without coming to Congress. The letter said that the longstanding program had successfully promoted economic and community development, opposed the proposed elimination of the plan slated in President Trump's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2020, and urged the Senate to support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020. It made Virginia the first Southern state to do so. Roanoke 611 S. Jefferson Street, Suite 5B Roanoke, VA 24011 Phone: (540) 682-5693 Fax: (540) 682-5697 Directions [208] He also supports legislation to bar weapons sales to suspected terrorists on the No Fly List. [21] Kaine won, winning 1,025,942 votes (51.7%) to Kilgore's 912,327 (46.0%). [230] Trump subsequently vetoed the measure,[231] and the Senate failed to override the veto. [215][216], In 2019, Kaine was one of 34 Senate Democrats to sign a letter to President Trump urging him to reconsider cuts to U.S. foreign aid to the Northern Triangle countries of Central America in the Fiscal Year 2018 national security appropriations bill. )[163] Pence was criticized after the debate for not defending Donald Trump's comments,[164] while Kaine was criticized for being too aggressive and interrupting. [43], The campaign turned sharply negative in its final weeks, with Kilgore running television attack ads that claimed, incorrectly, that Kaine believed that "Hitler doesn't qualify for the death penalty. [108] He took on the position as chair part-time as he continued his term as governor of Virginia. [25][30] Kaine later touted Project Exile during his campaign for lieutenant governor in 2001. SAGAL: Tim Kaine has represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate since 2013, and he was, prior to that, governor of the commonwealth. "[254], In August 2019, Kaine was one of nineteen Democratic senators to sign a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting data from the Trump administration on the consequences for healthcare if Texas prevailed in its lawsuit seeking to gut the Affordable Care Act. [17] He was a board member of the Virginia chapter of Housing Opportunities Made Equal, which he represented in a landmark redlining discrimination lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. arising from the company's practices in Richmond.