senator tim kaine? we're going to refresh senator tim kaine's audio here.referring to some of the reaction we've heard from republicans including this tweet. hopefully he can hear this. this comes from marco rubio. isn't government power to persecute political opponents and something we have seen many times from third world marxist dictatorships but never before in america. senator cain, if you can hear me, what do you think of what senator rubio said there? >> we are refreshing him. we're going to get him right back. yeah, we're seeing this kind of thing from a number of republicans. he's running for reelection. >> mark a rubio. is >> certainly, but we're seeing in concert all of these republicans who are backing donald trump up. very much, even without having a lot of information to know exactly what is going on. and also knowing merrick garland's pretty deliberate style. and the fact that christopher wray was appointed by donald trump there is only one fluid race right now and that is coming from trump world. donald trump more or less announced that this

with us now to talk about this and some other topics is virginia senator tim kaine.r being here. >> you bet, lindsey. glad to be with you. >> what would this bill mean for your constituents in virginia and for the american people? >> well, its going to do great work for virginians and others because it will bring down prescription drug costs. it will extend premium support for people who buy health care on the exchanges. the announcement came out two days ago that the uninsured rate in the united states is at the lowest it has ever been because of this premium support we put into the american rescue pan and it will continue that. it will also dramatically accelerate our path to a cleaner energy economy. in virginia what that means is offshore wind where we are positioned to be a national leader. there's also one other important provision, a health care provision that matters in virginia which is fully funding the black lung benefits program that protects the health care of our miners and miner retirees. this permanently funds the program so that our miners and their

joining us now is democratic senator tim kaine of virginia.or being with us this morning. your reaction to the news overnight "the washington post" says that the fbi was seeking classified documents relating to nuclear weapons that we don't know if they got any. we don't know why they thought that. but how serious would the existence of such documents be? >> john, it couldn't be more serious, as you say. we don't know what they got. but it's pretty clear that they had information likely from some source that documents at mar-a-lago dealt with the most sensitive national security matters that the u.s. must guard very, very jealously. i'm on the armed services committee and the foreign relations committee and there's nothing more classified than materials related to the u.s. nuclear program. >> you are on the armed services committee. you can explain to our audience, this doesn't necessarily mean it has to be nuclear codes, but any information -- >> no. >> about nuclear weapons american or otherwise. >> right, exactly. we have intelligence about

senators kaine and blumenthal are here today. and we want to pledge to the american people we are going to keep working until we get something done in child care. and we will keep fighting for all these issues to expand opportunity for all americans. it is so, so vital to the future of our country and to the well-being of families across the nation. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: madam president, i'm so pleased to be on the floor today to join with senator murray, senator schumer, senator blumenthal to talk about the critical importance of child care. i will speak in about 40 minutes about a piece of this bill, the black lung program, which is really important to virginia. like senator murray, i share a sadness that child care is not included in this bill, because this is what i'm hearing from virginians, that even before the pandemic, there was an inadequate supply. people working in this field weren't being paid enough. it's a market failure and we have to fix it. this bill doesn

that could mean more restrictions or a possible ban if kaine -- kansans vote no, the constitutional right to an abortion would remain in place, making further restrictions much more difficult to pass. polling shows a tight race with 47% planning to vote yes, 43% planning to vote no. and 10% undecided. >> we have a limited right to access abortion care in our state right now. but this constitutional amendment will mandate government control over our private medical decisions and pave the way for a total ban on abortion. >> reporter: but anti-abortion activists here say it's about putting the power in the hands of the people does this amendment pave the pathway to a ban potentially? >> it paves the way for future conversations to be able to happen i want to see a future where kansans are involved in the discussion, where unelected judges don't decide for the rest of us the right kinds o limits on abortion in our state. >> reporter: experts say it's a pivotal vote, one the whole nation will be watching >> a yes vote probably doesn't tell us a lot, because kansas is a conservative and republi

dominic kaine explains. >> this coal being unloaded in a german town is from russia, part of one of theast consignments to germany before the e.u. embargo took hold. until recently, much of the energy used in germany came from russian fossil fuels but now its coal is banned, its oil is soon to follow and far less of its gas is being piped here than was planned. meaning across the country much of industry is having to contemplate bying fossil fuels from elsewhere. >> i think there'll be only a temporary return of the coal-fired power plants to the mark. this is a not a long-term solution. this is a solution for next three, maybe four years. which is a significant contribution to solving the gas problem or the security of supply problem but it is not sustainable long-term. >> the difficulty for the german government is many of its leaders have spent much of their political lives looking to phase out fossil fuels. and yet they now find themselves strog buy them in on a short-term basis. >> we see how dependent we are on energy imports from all over the world and in this case especially fro

i mean , uh, you know, like cilantro seeds, it smells really good a little, cumin and kain pepper andtle bit of paprika. here i have a little cumin, it turns out like this, you know, some gentle, but at the same time, a marinade that gives us the opportunity to make. this dish is dietary, but at the same time intense and interesting. i mean, it's not like that. here, i always tell you that it's just there, uh, steamed chicken breast. it's fine. it 's really helpful. it's really an excellent source of protein, but in my opinion. it's pretty boring. that is, it can be eaten once. there are no times in a row inside, so i like to invent. here are all the time some such combinations of olive oil, which helps all these spices to become friends with our medallions. my grill pan is heating up. it must be very, very hot. i just don’t lubricate it with oil, but it’s enough for me that the oil that absorbs chicken meat is enough, i ’ll add a little. it's such a spicy mixture, it's very spicy straight up. i just need to dilute a quarter of a teaspoon with oil too - this is harisa, this is such, u

kaine: first, i have one request for a committee to meet during today's session of the senate. it has the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. kaine: madam president, second request, my remarks are coming about six minutes after i intended to start. i ask for per mugs to complete my remarks before the vote begins. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaine: i rise to essentially do a part two of a talk that i gave on the senate floor about two weeks ago. the first part of my talk was my analysis of the dobbs decision of the supreme court expressing my deep dissolutionment with the court's decision to cast aside a century of precedent under the 14th amendment due process clause, and in particular casting aside 50 years of using the 14th amendment to protect women's rights to make reproductive decisions with regard to contraception and abortion. i analyzed the court's opinion and precedents at that time, but i sort of left it hanging what needs to be done because while we can critique the court decision -- and i do view it

chair of our board of trustees, the chair of our executive committee richard and trustees goldman, kaint, and tonight's -- one of tonight speakers akhil reed amar will be joining us momentarily on our virtual stage. i would also like to thank the chairman's council. we are so very grateful to each and every one of you for your encouragement and support especially at this challenging timeur. well then, we are pleased indeed to welcome akhil reed amar back to our virtual stage. he is a professor of law and political science at yale university. before joining yale's faculty he clerked for judge, now associate justice stephen breyer. he was judge on the u.s. court of appeals for the first circuit. akhil reed amar is a visiting adjunct professor at columbia law school and author of the recently released book the words that made us. americans constitutional conversation 1760 -- 1840. joining us as moderator this evening is richard brookhiser senior fellow at the national review institute. senior editor of the national review author of numerous books including give me liberty, a history of ame

we'll ask senator tim kaine where things stand. >>> following speaker pelosi's high-level visit to taiwancises off the

take a listen to whet senator tim kaine had to say about the dangers of such sensitive information getting out into the public. >> it's pretty clear that they had information likely from some source the documents at mar-a-lago dealt with. the most sensitive national security matters that the u.s. must guard jealously. i'm on the armed services committee -- there is nothing more classified than the nuclear program. this can be very damaging in the wrong hands. somebody could try to make money by selling this kind of information. >> look, donald trump for his part claims he declassified all these documents, but even if that is true, do you agree with senator cain about the national security threat these document could potentially pose, and might some of them be beyond something that could be declassified in a sense? >> well, let's spend a second on donald trump's defenses. in the last 72 hours the defense has been i didn't do it. barack obama also did it. and the latest defenses, oh well i just magically declassified these things. again, it's the typical donald trump playbook, where he sendi

you have senator tim kaine that would codify under roe.richard blumenthal. we caught up with him. he said he won't support that bill. listen. >>> i think giving that power to politicians in robes is as bad as giving to it state legislatures because they've indicated they will cut back and eliminate those rights. >> are you at all concerned that the work that you and your colleagues and the president are doing is moot as long as there is a supreme court and legislatures that want to do away with it? >> democrats have been fighting since before the decision by the supreme court to protect a woman's right to an abortion. if that's their choice, and the rights abortion, it shouldn't be a state by state right. it should be codified into federal law. we tried that. republicans blocked it. we tried the make it clear that women have the right to make it across state lines to get the care they need. republicans have blocked that. we've tried to codify the right to contraception. republicans have blocked that. republicans have continued to obstruct

i agree with senator sullivan and i agree with senator kaine. the bottom line is allowing state law to become a factor when making personal assignments is a dangerous and unworkable proposition. an apolitical professional military is in the hallmark of our american democracy. for a hearing today i would like to understand how the department of defense would intimate the june 28, 2022 policy memoranda from secretary austin on ensuring access to essential women's healthcare services for service members detained its beneficiaries and department of defense civilian employees. thank you, and i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman for his comments. i want to stay for the record this is not hearing on whether or not servicemen we should be able to choose where they serve. it's a hearing to determine what we should do to make sure they serve where their order to serve and still can receive reproductive health care. before we proceed with question for the witnesses on what to add several servicemembers approached my office about wanting to share their st

. >> and i'm glad governor young kaine of virginia, thank doctor . thank yoa tou. it' >> so it's worth harpingrp on energy because energy is the sourceing on, of course, of civilization. and so when the biden gridnistration makes our energy grid less reliable on purpose, you should be concerned when they hurt the u.s. military and eliminate its ability to fight wars. yo u should be very worried. "te wall street journal theseporting that according to pentagon officials, the u.s. government is running out of u ammunition now.s. where diamd all the ammo go ?arh well, it's been sent to the corrupt oligarchs in ukraine to give just one example, the number of one hundred and fifty five combat rounds, howitzers use them is now quoter ,uncomfortably low itan american stockpile. that's what a pentagon official tol the journal. sto we've distributed more than, frm 800000 rounds of howitzer ammunition to the ukrainian governmentrounds o just this ye. >> where did allth that ammo go? we don't know because we're noty tracking it. inevitably, a lot of it was, sold to destabilize

senator tim kaine, we have a lot of issues to talk to you about today but let's start with your reactiont to be with you guys. very good news and it sends a lesson, this is a guy who has been living a shuttle life in safe houses for 20 years avoiding the u.s. but he couldn't. we are very patient and if you plot an attack against us there is no place in the world you can wait us out. great intelligence. obviously some important tips led us to al-zawahiri but then even after we had the information, the care that was used in planning the operation to minimize casualties in the middle of a crowded kabul was most impressive . is a member of the armed services and foreign relations committee with a lot of virginia scar tissue because of the attack of 9/11 on the pentagon and others who died over 20 years serving in iraq and afghanistan, it was very good news to hear this. >> a lot of virginians are also veterans in urgent need of healthcare. we were just curious what the republicans in the senate have been doing over the past couple weeks, bizarrely enough taking a pro-beijing anti-veteran pos

session of congress but i really love it showed jim wright falling asleep some grandchildren that is tom kain the previous picture from ireland the paint here there and around the house and give them to children. it's one for my hotel room and boston. that's the boston public garden pickwick telling to take you to paint? what do depend these are water closed on pretty quickly. this is at the reservation in montana. that's a little sketch of it -- of the farm where we lived a little pen and ink that i did. it is something i have always loved to do. and her daughter melissa and her granddaughter caitlyn that's the public library across the street where i've served as a trustee. so, you see our house how far you had to go to get to the library. we go across the street in the library at night. that's the church were some of our children were married. that's right around the corner of where we live by. >> i have in my lap here one that you're talking about. it's got some creases in it, who is in this photo? >> at the picture of my mother. probably taken before i was born >> mother on the left? lic

senator tim kaine, who voted for the mimic, said while family considerations are important in assignmentdecisions, ultimately military officials make the assignment based on what is best. the bottom line is allowing state law to become a factor is a dangerous and unworkable proposition. for our hearing today, i would like to understand how the department of defense will implement the policy memoranda from secretary austen on ensuring access to essential women's health care services for service members, dependents, beneficiaries and civilian employees. thank you and i yield back. >> i want to stay for the record this is not a hearing on whether service members should be able to choose where to serve, it is a hearing on making sure they can serve where they ordered to serve and make sure they can receive reproductive health care. i want at that several service members approached my office about wanting to share their stories and several have submitted statements and i now ask unanimous consent to add those statements to the hearing. without objection, so ordered. i ask unanimous consent th

senator tim kaine who voted for the amendment said while family considerations are important in assignment decisions ultimately military considerations are important in assignment decisions. the bottom line is allowing is a dangerous and unworkable proposition. an apolitical military is it hallmark of our american democracy. i would like to understand how the department of evidence will implement the policy memorandum on ensuring access to essential women's health care services, thank you and i yield back. >> i.t. whi -- i thank the gentleman for his statements. . at this hearing and determine what we should do to make sure that members can server their order to serve and receive reproductive health care. before we proceed with questions i want to add that several servicemembers approach to my office and i wanted to share their stories, some have submitted statements. i consent to add those statements to the hearing. without objection, so ordered. i ask consent that members from the full committee or other committees i am a major and intelligence officer in the united states air force, i h

kaine: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. kaine: i rise to speak about a very important provision in the inflation reduction act that combines the three pillars of the act -- health care, energy, and tax reform. that provision is a permanent p funding fix for the black lung benefit program. and i dedicate this floor speech to all my friends who are virginia coal miners, to their retirees, to their families, and i especially dedicate it to my friends at the united mine workers including a dear friend, president cecil roberts. i came to virginia in 1984 never having been to virginia. i grew up in kansas and didn't know too much about the coal industry. i married my wife ann 38 years ago and part of her family is from big stone gap, virginia, in the heart of appalachia, those counties in southwestern virginia, wise, lee, dickinson, russell, buchanan, scott, that have coal mining as the very heart of their economies. and it's not only coal mines, but it's the miners themselves, many of whom drive across state lines to work in wes