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.

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Record of service

In office: 13.7 years
First took office: 2013 (3 terms)
Seniority: 54 of 100 by time served
Age: 68
Senate class: 1 · junior senator

District offices

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

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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

2018

$810k

2019

$562k

2020

$790k

2021

$515k

2022

$985k

2023

$943k

2024

$1.2M

2025

$1.2M

Most recent filing (2025)

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.22

Healthcare

D+0.79

Immigration & Border

D+0.69

Guns

D+0.57

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.33

Environment & Energy

D+0.70

Crime & Policing

D+0.47

Defense & Veterans

D+0.10

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.50

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.78

Education

D+0.75

Government & Democracy

D+0.59

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.63

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.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

86%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

82%

Communist Party USA

80%

Libertarian Party

62%

Republican Party

39%

On the political map

Tim Kaine (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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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

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.