Tim Kaine
Democrat · VA · U.S. Senate
Bio
Timothy Michael Kaine is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2006 to 2010 as the 70th governor of Virginia and from 2002 to 2006 as the 38th lieutenant governor of Virginia. Kaine was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 2016 presidential election, running alongside presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- First took office
- 2013 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 54 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Abingdon, VA · 276-525-4790
- Manassas, VA · 703-361-3192
- Richmond, VA · 804-771-2221
- Roanoke, VA · 540-682-5693
- Virginia Beach, VA · 757-518-1674
- Fredericksburg, VA · 540-369-7667
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.1M – $3.2M
- Liabilities
- $600k – $1.3M
- Net worth
- −$175k – $2.6M
- Since 2018
- +$403k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Tim Kaine's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Tim Kaine (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Kainesits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kaine's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Senate Resolution Will Demand Answers on Extremist Israeli Settler Violence Against US CitizensA group of Senate Democrats on Thursday announced plans to introduce a privileged resolution requiring the Trump administration to give Congress more information about violence carried out by extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Led by Sens. C…
Common Dreams · August 27, 2026
“Remember the little guy”: Kaine hears from Virginia farmers as Canada trade fight drives up concernJust days after failed trade talks between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney prompted new sweeping tariffs and threats of retaliation, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., sat down with Virginia agricultural and forestry producers Monday t…
Biztoc.com · August 25, 2026
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Common Dreams · August 21, 2026
Senators slap back as Trump launches 'alarming' attack on privacyWhat Happened: Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries. In a letter to Secreta…
Raw Story · August 19, 2026
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