Tim Kaine

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require coverage of, and expand access to, home and community-based services under the Medicaid program, to award grants for the creation, recruitment, training and education, retention, and advancement of the direct care workforce and to award grants to support family caregivers, and for other purposes.

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.

To protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services.

Supporting the goals of International Women’s Day.

To require the Social Security Administration to make changes to the social security terminology used in the rules, regulation, guidance, or other materials of the Administration.

To ensure that Social Security beneficiaries receive regular statements from the Social Security Administration, and for other purposes.

To improve services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs for veteran families, and for other purposes.

Expressing concern that illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing threatens security, prosperity, and biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean and facilitates human trafficking, including forced labor, and other inhumane and criminal practices in the region.

Expressing the sense of the Senate on the value of a tax agreement with Taiwan.

To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a group health plan or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol, and for other purposes.

To suspend the enforcement of certain civil liabilities of Federal employees and contractors during a lapse in appropriations, or during a breach of the statutory debt limit, and for other purposes.

To establish a democracy advancement and innovation program, and for other purposes.

To establish the United States Foundation for International Conservation to promote long-term management of protected and conserved areas, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, and for other purposes.

To amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, and for other purposes.

To amend section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 to reaffirm civil rights, victims’ rights, and consumer protections.

Condemning the Government of Iran’s state-sponsored persecution of the Baha’i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights.

To require a background check for every firearm sale.

To require disclosure of the total amount of interest that would be paid over the life of a loan for certain Federal student loans.

Reaffirming the state of Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory and condemning the People's Republic of China's provocations in South Asia.