Tim Kaine News

"We're in a deep [expletive]," said one Virginia Republican strategist. "The only good news is that the Democrats have Terry McAuliffe.

Virginia's Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine this week offered an amendment to an environmental bill that will promote efforts to restore Four Mile Run as a recreational resource.

A Democratic senator from Virginia says people who work at the Internal Revenue Service need to be fired for targeting conservative political groups.

Marilyn Tavenner, a onetime staff nurse, officially was confirmed Wednesday as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

A Senate bill that helps advance the construction of Hampton Roads ' next major ocean terminal, passed overwhelmingly Wednesday.

Aneesh Chopra , one of two Democrats vying to be the next lieutenant governor of Virginia, will make appearances Wednesday in Springfield and Lorton.

Too often, Democrat Aneesh Chopra says in his new campaign commercial, Virginia middle class families are stuck on a metaphorical escalator, making little progress as they climb towards a better life.

American Legion Post 87 Commander John Harmon invites the public to attend a Memorial Day tribute ceremony at Virginia Veterans Cemetery in Amelia on Monday, May 27 beginning at 10 a.m. All 2,000-plus graves at the cemetery will be decorated with an American flag and the service branch flag of the deceased veteran.

A handful of Northern Virginia House of Delegates races are being targeted by a national Democratic group as the starting point for its ambitious plans to win back state legislatures that are now in Republican hands.

Piling on. Three Democrats have joined a chorus of Republicans calling for the IRS to be held accountable for targeting conservative groups for heightened scrutiny during the 2012 presidential campaign.

On Capitol Hill, a rare glimpse of bipartisanship has swept across the body as lawmakers respond to an IRS scandal where career employees in Cincinnati, Ohio, knowingly targeted 75 Tea Party groups who were seeking nonprofit status.

Finally, an issue that Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Congress can agree on: preserving Civil War battlegrounds.

Sheldon Adelson , one of the wealthiest men in America, may be putting in place the structure for spending millions of dollars in independent expenditures in the 2014 elections.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is traveling to Slaughter Pen battlefield in Fredericksburg to promote a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the American Battlefield Protection Program.

Independent Sen. Angus King's early penchant for voting with Democrats seems to be surprising no one in Washington, including Republicans in the Senate.

The U.S. Senate approved legislation Monday that would require large online retailers to collect state sales taxes, a welcome development for traditional merchants and Virginia leaders who are counting on the extra revenue.

Although there isn't much Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe agree on, they seem to have a similar sense of timing: both men scheduled key policy speeches this week with the campaign for Virginia governor moving into its final six months.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is continuing statewide tour with his party's luminaries in an official launch of a Virginia governor's race he entered almost six months ago.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is continuing a statewide tour with his party's luminaries in an official launch of a Virginia governor's race he entered almost six months ago.

On his four-month anniversary as a U.S. senator, Democrat Tim Kaine visited Leesburg Friday to speak with a group of small business owners and entrepreneurs about legislation he supports to make the state and nation's economic environment more vibrant.