2024 Virginia Voter Guide Footnotes
1.) Article, Loudoun County Republican Committee – “We need to be energy independent as we were a year ago. This will correct 90% of our current problems of high gas prices, food prices, unemployment, and inflation.” 7/30/2022:
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Tim Kaine can brag about his support for the Inflation Reduction Act all he wants, but the reality is, costs are crippling families across America. When I’m elected, I will work to reduce costs, make the cost of living more affordable, and bring jobs to Virginia.” 9/18/2024:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1836458801186152569
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Inflation is cumulative. Under Joe Biden it was 4.7%, then 8.0%, then 4.1% and now 3.5%. That’s over 20%. The last two years of the Trump presidency was 1.8% and 1.2%. This is why food and gas is so high and Americans can’t afford to feed their family.” 4/11/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1778474419536433305
WATCH: C-Span video – “We have to lift all the executive orders that cripple the oil and gas industry. He killed the Keystone Pipeline. He killed off infrastructure and put a lot of regulations onto the refineries and the oil industry.” @ 00:17:24 10/5/2022:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?523411-1/virginia-10th-congressional-district-candidates-forum
Article, Fox News – “Our national debt is at an all-time high and Joe Biden is determined to push it even further. But don’t let him and his administration fool you. All they’re doing is buying votes by selling out America’s future. We need strong leaders in Washington that care about America’s future.” (Shared article about spending on student loan bailout.) 3/25/2024: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vows-forge-ahead-with-student-loan-handouts-has-words-for-all-his-critics
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Families across Virginia are struggling to afford groceries and basic necessities. When I’m elected to the Senate, I will work to drive down costs by limiting regulations on businesses and encouraging innovators and businesses to stay in America.” 1/9/2024: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1744794965069172832
2.) Congressional Website, VOTED FOR HR2882 – Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, a $1.2T spending bill. 3/23/2024:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00114.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED FOR HR5376 – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – which purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas powered vehicles.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S4072 – A bill to prohibit the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce certain rules of the Environmental Protection Agency…the rules include more stringent standards for greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants for light-duty vehicles and medium-duty vehicles. The standards phase in model years 2027 through 2032. 4/18/2024:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00142.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED FOR HR1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 – a bill that enacted a policy forcing online sellers to report and keep track of all transactions over $600. 3/6/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00110.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST – Joint Resolution (S. J. Res. 11) – chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Control of Air Pollution from New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards. 4/26/2023:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00098.htm
Tim Kaine, Twitter/X – “The past year saw a historic investment in the American economy with the American Rescue Plan—and it’s paying off. Let’s keep it going and invest in the American people with the Build Back Better bill.” 11/24/2021: https://x.com/timkaine/status/1463544452773994496
3.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “…The policy of giving sanctuary to illegal aliens & allowing them to victimize Americans without penalty ends on November 5th.” 8/30/2024:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1829601406762049856
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “I never thought I would wake up to a reality where military-aged males from other countries illegally entering the US and breaking our laws have more benefits than actual Americans in our military, fighting to defend our country. November 5th can’t come fast enough. 4/2/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1775161071654875420
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “A vote for Kamala & Kaine is a vote to give citizenship to 11M (and more) illegal aliens in our country. Gang members, drug smugglers & criminal thugs. They shouldn’t be here.” 8/1/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1819030402108899697
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “When President Trump and I are in office next year, we will secure the border, finish the wall & send them back.” 5/28/2024:
https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1795504138106658865
4.) Congressional Website, S.J. Res. 54 – VOTED FOR – remove emergency declaration from border wall, removing funding.10/17/2019: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1161/vote_116_1_00325.htm
Congressional Website, H.J. Res 46 – Voted FOR – to overturn Pres. Trump’s Emergency Declaration for border wall funding. 3/14/2019: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1161/vote_116_1_00049.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt.1948 to S.Amdt.1959 to HR2579 (Broader Options for Americans Act) – To ensure that State and local law enforcement cooperate with Federal officials to protect our communities from violent criminals and suspected terrorists who are illegally present in the United States. 3/15/2018:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1152/vote_115_2_00034.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED S3100 – Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act: A bill to ensure that State and local law enforcement may cooperate with Federal officials to protect our communities from violent criminals and suspected terrorists who are illegally present in the United States. 7/6/2016:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1142/vote_114_2_00119.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S2146 – Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act – A bill to hold sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for defying Federal law, to increase penalties for individuals who illegally reenter the United States.
10/20/2015:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1141/vote_114_1_00280.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST HR2882 – Hagerty amendment prohibiting taxpayer money being used for flying illegals into the US for resettlement. 3/23/2024:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00112.htm
Candidate Website, Tim Kaine US Senator – “Tim has cosponsored legislation to give TPS recipients the opportunity to become permanent residents of the United States and called for TPS designations for countries with major humanitarian crises, including Cameroon, Venezuela, and Ukraine” https://www.kaine.senate.gov/issues/immigration
Tim Kaine, Twitter/X – “The past year saw a historic investment in the American economy with the American Rescue Plan – and it’s paying off. Let’s keep it going and invest in the American people with the Build Back Better bill.” (Grants mass amnesty to illegal immigrants.) 11/24/2021: https://x.com/timkaine/status/1463544452773994496
5.) Candidate Website, Hung Cao US Senate – “On Joe Biden’s first day as President, he shut down the Keystone Pipeline. That pipeline must flow again so that we can return to less than $2.00 per gallon.” 2024: https://www.hungforva.com/economy/
Article, Loudoun County Republican Committee – “We need to be energy independent as we were a year ago. This will correct 90% of our current problems of high gas prices, food prices, unemployment, and inflation.” 7/20/2022:
WATCH: C-Span – “We have to lift all the executive orders that cripple the oil and gas industry. He killed the Keystone Pipeline. He killed off infrastructure and put a lot of regulations onto the refineries and the oil industry.” @00:17:24 10/5/2022: https://www.c-span.org/video/?523411-1/virginia-10th-congressional-district-candidates-forum
6.) Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt. 678 to S.Con.Res. 5, The Keystone Pipeline – To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the improvement of relations between the United States and Canada with regard to the Keystone XL Pipeline entering the United States in Phillips County, Montana. 2/4/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00032.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt. 5265 to S.Amdt. 5194 to H.R. 5376 – To provide for certain conditions on the export to China of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 8/7/2022:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00311.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt 5409 to S.Amdt 5194 to HR5376 – the Amendment (Barrasso Amendment No. 5409) – To require certain additional onshore oil and gas lease sales in certain states. 8/7/2022:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00291.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST Lummis S.Amdt. No.3104 to S.Con Res 14 – To cancel the Biden Administration’s ban on oil and gas leasing on Federal land to help lower gasoline prices and reduce energy dependence on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. 8/10/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00320.htm
7.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “I never thought I would wake up to a reality where military-aged males from other countries illegally entering the US and breaking our laws have more benefits than actual Americans in our military, fighting to defend our country. November 5th can’t come fast enough. 4/2/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1775161071654875420
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “No, the real slap in the face is the fact that we’re using taxpayer dollars to give these illegal immigrants free housing when they don’t respect our laws enough to come here legally” 4/23/2024: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1782829525912477731
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “The previous evening, 80 illegal aliens were driven off for processing where they would receive a $5000 debit card, a free cell phone with service & plane ticket to anywhere within the US. Illegal aliens brought with them enough fentanyl to kill every American several times over.” 8/21/2024: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1826274401786159268
8.) Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt. 968 to S.Amdt. 891 to HR1319 (American Rescue Plan Act of 2021) – To ensure that the 2021 Recovery Rebates are not provided to illegal immigrants. 3/6/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00104.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt. 614 to S.ConRes.8 – prohibiting illegal immigrants from qualifying for federally subsidized health care. 3/13/2013:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1131/vote_113_1_00077.htm
Congressional website, VOTED AGAINST HR2882 – Hagerty amendment prohibiting taxpayer money being used for flying illegals into the US for resettlement. 3/23/2024:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00112.htm
9.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “We threatened & demonized so many veterans over an experimental vaccine. Tim Kaine said we shouldn’t be paid or retained on active duty if we didn’t take it. It’s all about control.” 9/3/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1830927479348797651
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Literally today Tim Kaine is out there lying about the “Inflation Reduction Act” while his beloved President Joe Biden comes clean on live TV that it was never about that & was always a Green New Deal scam.” 9/5/2024:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1831851181964194108
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – ““Why are progressive liberals in Virginia trying to follow the lead of California? Eliminating the sale of gas and diesel vehicles might work for the Tesla owners in Hollywood, but it does not work for Virginians.” 8/29/2022: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1564319479714168832
10.) Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.4072 – A bill to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing a set of more stringent standards for greenhouse gases for light- and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 through 2032. 4/18/2024:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00142.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED FOR H.R.5376 – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 -which purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas-powered vehicles. 7/7/2022: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm
Congressional Website, VOTE AGAINST S.Amdt. 421 to S.Amdt. 935 to S. 2226 – To provide remedies to members of the Armed Forces discharged or subject to adverse action under the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. – (a) Limitation on Imposition of New Mandate. –The Secretary of Defense may not issue any COVID-19 vaccine mandate as a replacement for the mandate rescinded under section 525 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 absent a further act of Congress expressly authorizing a replacement mandate. 7/26/2023:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00199.htm
11.) WATCH: Republican Accountability YouTube video – “So in Virginia as you know under Governor Northam, they allow abortion all the way up until birth or even post birth. Remember under Northam you’re allowed to just let the babies die on the table…California 23 allows the parents to exempt from any kind of prosecution up to 28 days after birth. That means you have the right to murder your child 28 days after birth…this is evil.” @0:15 6/30/2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4r0RKKkGUM
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Jennifer Wexton’s colleague says no one supports late-term abortions. I guess he hasn’t looked at Wexton’s voting record lately. She co-sponsored a bill that could allow abortion until the moment of birth.” 8/29/2022:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1564344992319037444
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “As a father of five children, I will always support the right to life. Tim Kaine however, believes abortion should be on demand up until, and including, the moment of birth.” 9/5/2023: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1699075425639768579
12.) Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S.311 – A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. 2/25/2019:
13.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “FACT: Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of voting Americans believe men’s and women’s sports should be protected. Biological men should NOT be participating in women’s sports.” 4/29/2023:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1652331946045849601
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Years ago, this would be a headline in the @TheBabylonBee, but now it’s a reality. There is no excuse for allowing men to beat up women.” 8/2/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1819469530785014072
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “The lamestream media always knows how to spin a story. Instead of focusing on the protection of women in sports, which is what the GOP bill does, they focus on the feigned marginalization of trans athletes. 5/5/2023:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1654516453708529664
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Under Joe Biden’s new Title IX rules, men can walk right into women’s bathrooms, locker rooms & dorms, but calling them by their real pronouns is now sexual harassment. This is dangerous overreach & puts all women of all ages in danger.” 8/2/2024: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1819444419747074528
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Parents need to be welcomed partners in their child’s education, but my opponent has supported policies that attack parental rights and risk student safety. VA Democrats want to put parents behind bars for failing to affirm their child’s chosen gender identity.” 10/18/2022: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1582416779300638721
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “22 veterans commit suicide every day because they can’t unsee the horrors of war that no person should ever see. We have 80,000 homeless veterans. This is where we need to pour our resources, not elective sex change operations.” (Posted an article on the U.S. government paying for transgender surgeries.) 1/26/2024:
https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1750877993268851086
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Parental rights are being eroded at every level of government. I will work tirelessly to combat the insidious grooming and exploitation of students at the hands of well-funded, government-backed organizations hellbent on sexualizing our vulnerable children. I will support our local and state legislatures as they champion education and advocate for our parental rights.” 4/6/2022: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1511748556268486663
Article, Fauquier Now News – “’A school can’t even give a kid an aspirin, but you’re saying that school can decide what sex your child is?’ Cao said. Cao said he agreed with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed policy changes for the treatment of transgender students, which would require parental signoff on the use of any name or pronoun other than what’s in a student’s official record.” 10/4/2022:
14.) Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt 1386 to S.Amdt 891 to HR1319 – American Rescue Plan – To prohibit funds made available under title II to States, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education that permit any student whose biological sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. 3/20/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00097.htm
Congressional Website, Co-Sponsored S393 – Equality Act – would extend Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, which could lead to changes in school curriculums and require texts to affirm and promote views on gender and sexuality.” 2/23/2021:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/393/cosponsors
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.J.Res. 42 – Joint Resolution to express disapproval of Biden-Harris Exec Order 13988, which directed federal agencies to do away with policies not aligned with the administration’s sexual orientation and gender identity agenda. In this case, funding for school lunches could be stopped until schools complied with allowing boys in girls’ sports or girls’ bathrooms. 10/26/2023:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00272.htm
Article, abc13 News – “Kaine said he feels that you can find a balance of including parents without making that small group of kids feel targeted.” (Referencing changes that require students to use the restroom and participate in sports that align with their sex, not gender identity – transgender policy changes made by Governor Glenn Youngkin) 9/29/2022:
Article, Fox News – “Two weeks of traveling around Virginia, nobody asked me about this,” Sen. Tim Kaine told Fox News, “This is not what is on folks’ minds.” – “This is an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in some media,” he added. “It’s not what Virginians are worried about.” (Referencing The Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act) 4/27/2023:
Article, New York Post – “All 12 Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — as well as independent Angus King of Maine — voted June 29 to strip the provision from the must-pass 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), opening the door for the Pentagon to fund so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.” (Tim Kaine is one of the 12.) 7/14/2023: https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/senate-dems-vote-against-dod-ban-on-transgender-procedures-for-kids/
15.) Candidate Website, Hung Cao US Senate – “I am pro-life…Tim Kaine believes abortion should be legal until and including the moment of birth. Tim Kaine co-sponsored Senate Bill 1645 which banned our local, elected government from placing any limitation or restriction on abortion, including late-term abortions even at the moment of birth.” 2024: https://www.hungforva.com/right-to-life/
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Jennifer Wexton supports unlimited access to late term abortion at taxpayer expense, and I believe life should be protected. That’s why I’ve spent 25 years fighting for our country. Her position on this is extreme and out of line with the people of our district.” 6/29/2022: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1553116593772699650
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “A vast majority of citizens oppose late-term abortion. If it doesn’t happen, why do elected Democrats fight so hard to thwart the will of the people in banning it?” 4/29/2023: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1652381723471106048
16.) Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.701 – Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023 – This bill prohibits governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, abortion services. 3/9/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/701/cosponsors
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S109 – a bill to ban taxpayer-funded abortions. 1/17/2019:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1161/vote_116_1_00007.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S2311 – Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – Federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks. 1/29/2018:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1152/vote_115_2_00025.htm
Congressional Website, VOTED FOR Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to HR3755. A bill 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. 2/28/2022:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00065.htm
Candidate Website, Tim Kaine US Senate – “Tim supports the constitutional right of women to make their own reproductive choices. He opposes efforts to weaken Roe v. Wade and defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that 30,000 Virginians rely on for health care.” 2024: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/issues/civil-rights
Tim Kaine, Twitter/X – “It’s heartbreaking that women from states like Florida are being forced to travel to Virginia— the last state in the South without an abortion ban-just to get the health care they need. We must restore Roe to all 50 states. I have a bill to do just that.” 5/8/2024: https://x.com/timkaine/status/1788277848035270757
Tim Kaine, Twitter/X – “We must keep fighting to restore Roe.” 1/22/2024:
https://x.com/timkaine/status/1749431526583144724
17.) Candidate Website, Hung Cao US Senate – “If you can show an ID to go to a movie theater, you had better be required to show an ID to vote.” 2024: https://www.hungforva.com/election-integrity/
18.) Congressional Website, Co-Sponsored S4 – John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 – federalizing elections and making state go through DOJ to change voting laws. Voter ID laws would be considered discriminatory. Voting by mail for all. 11/3/2021:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4/cosponsors
Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S.1 – For the People Act of 2021 – Congress also finds that States and localities have eroded access to the right to vote through restrictions on the right to vote including excessively onerous voter identification requirements, burdensome voter registration procedures, voter purges, limited and unequal access to voting by mail, polling place closures, unequal distribution of election resources, and other impediments. 8/11/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00358.htm
19.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “This is what has become of our country under Joe Biden. Never did I think I would see vicious anti-Semitic rioting in America. Let me speak plainly: Jewish Americans have the right to live free from harassment, and Israel has the right to defend itself.” 2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1805718901289779534
20.) Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S.Res.417 – A resolution standing with Israel against terrorism. 10/19/2023:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00261.htm
21.) Candidate Website, Hung Cao US Senate – “The Constitution is clear regarding the Second Amendment. I will always protect the right to self-defense.” 2024:
https://www.hungforva.com/guns/
Other, Loudoun News – “Gun control has never stopped anyone. Most people get bludgeoned to death and stabbed to death than they get shot. I mean it’s a tragedy, it’s an absolute tragedy. But if it’s not guns it’s going to be with pipe bombs. Or knives or hammers. People get bludgeoned to death a lot. What do we control? Fentanyl has killed a lot of people. It’s just evil there’s a lot of evil in the world and we’re not going to stop it with gun control.” 5/25/2022:
Article, Fox News – “When they tell you who they are, believe them…freedom is on the ballot this year.” (Posted an article about Kamala Harris’s view on violating the individual liberty of law-abiding gun owners and on gun buybacks.) 9/18/2024:
22.) Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S2938 – Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – Incentives for states to pass red flag laws, background checks for people under 21 years old. 6/23/2022:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00242.htm
Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.3369 – GOSAFE Act – to restrict the possession of certain firearms, and for other purposes.” (Would regulate semiautomatic weapons, machine gun conversion devices, and large-capacity magazines.) 11/30/2023:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3369/cosponsors
Candidate Website, Tim Kaine US Senate – “Tim has also cosponsored legislation to place responsible limits on combat-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, hold gun manufacturers accountable, and close loopholes that allow domestic abusers to legally obtain weapons.” 2024: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/issues/gun-violence-prevention
Candidate Website, Tim Kaine US Senator from VA – “Kaine most recently cosponsored the BUMP Act, which would ban bump stocks, devices that turn semiautomatic weapons into machine guns by increasing their rate of fire, and the GOSAFE Act, which would regulate semiautomatic weapons, machine gun conversion devices, and large-capacity magazines.” 6/21/2024: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-upholding-restrictions-on-gun-ownership-for-domestic-abusers
23.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “FACT: Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of voting Americans believe men’s and women’s sports should be protected. Biological men should NOT be participating in women’s sports. Period.” 4/29/2023:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1652331946045849601
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Years ago, this would be a headline in the
@TheBabylonBee, but now it’s reality. There is no excuse for allowing men to beat up women.” 8/2/2024: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1819469530785014072
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “The lamestream media always knows how to spin a story. Instead of focusing on the protection of women in sports, which is what the GOP bill does, they focus on the feigned marginalization of trans athletes.5/5/2023:
https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1654516453708529664
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Under Joe Biden’s new Title IX rules, men can walk right into women’s bathrooms, locker rooms & dorms, but calling them by their real pronouns is now sexual harassment. This is dangerous overreach & puts all women of all ages in danger.” 8/2/2024: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1819444419747074528
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Parents need to be welcomed partners in their child’s education, but my opponent has supported policies that attack parental rights and risk student safety. VA Democrats want to put parents behind bars for failing to affirm their child’s chosen gender identity.” 10/18/2022: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1582416779300638721
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “22 veterans commit suicide every day because they can’t unsee the horrors of war that no person should ever see. We have 80,000 homeless veterans. This is where we need to pour our resources, not elective sex change operations.” (Posted an article on the U.S. government paying for transgender surgeries.) 1/26/2024:
https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1750877993268851086
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Parental rights are being eroded at every level of government. I will work tirelessly to combat the insidious grooming and exploitation of students at the hands of well-funded, government-backed organizations hellbent on sexualizing our vulnerable children. I will support our local and state legislatures as they champion education and advocate for our parental rights.” 4/6/2022: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1511748556268486663
Article, Fauquier Now News – “’A school can’t even give a kid an aspirin, but you’re saying that school can decide what sex your child is?’ Cao said. He agreed with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed policy changes for the treatment of transgender students, which would require parental signoff on the use of any name or pronoun other than what’s in a student’s official record.” 10/4/2022:
24.) Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S Amdt 1386 to S Amdt 891 to HR1319 – American Rescue Plan – To prohibit funds made available under title II to States, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education that permit any student whose biological sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. 3/6/2021:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00097.htm
Congressional Website, Co-Sponsored S393 – Equality Act – would extend Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes…” 2/23/2021: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/393/cosponsors
Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.J.Res. 42 – A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code. Resolution submitted in response to Biden-Harris Exec Order 13988 on Title IX, directing federal agencies to review, revise, suspend, or rescind any agency policy that did not align with the admin sexual orientation and gender identity agenda. In this case, funding for school lunches could be stopped until schools complied with allowing boys in girls’ sports or girls’ bathrooms. 10/26/2023: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00272.htm
Article, abc13 News – “Kaine said he feels that you can find a balance of including parents without making that small group of kids feel targeted.” (Referencing changes that require students to use the restroom and participate in sports that align with their sex, not gender identity – transgender policy changes made by Governor Glenn Youngkin) 9/29/2022:
Article, Fox News – “Two weeks of traveling around Virginia, nobody asked me about this,” Sen. Tim Kaine told Fox News, “This is not what is on folks’ minds.” “This is an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in some media,” he added. “It’s not what Virginians are worried about.” (Referencing The Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act) 4/27/2023:
Article, NY Post – “All 12 Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — as well as independent Angus King of Maine — voted June 29 to strip the provision from the must-pass 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), opening the door for the Pentagon to fund so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.” (Tim Kaine is one of the 12.) 7/14/2023:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/senate-dems-vote-against-dod-ban-on-transgender-procedures-for-kids/
25.) Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “The right to express one’s faith is a cornerstone of this country. I’m glad to see religious freedom being protected by the Court.” 6/28/2022: https://x.com/hungcao_va/status/1541811417384333312
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “The FBI lied, again. This was not a limited ‘misunderstanding’ as
@timkaine claimed. This was not ‘miscommunication.’ Rather than standing up for Catholic Churches, Tim Kaine helped the FBI embed themselves further. When he talked to the FBI, did they tell him they were doing this everywhere, and he helped anyway?” 8/10/2023: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1689619709124046849
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “The FBI is spying on churches and thinks Catholics who prefer Latin mass are extremists, but the Senator for my commonwealth, the Senator who allegedly represents me, thinks it’s just a simple misunderstanding.” 4/18/2023:
https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1648440569667153925
26.) Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.5 – Equality Act – The Equality Act would impact businesses, such as florists, photographers, venue owners, and bakers, who would be required to participate in same-sex weddings or gender transition celebrations. 6/21/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/5/cosponsors
Congressional Website, VOTED FOR H.R.8404 – Respect for Marriage Act. The Respect for Marriage Act requires states to recognize nontraditional marriage. It protects churches from officiating non-traditional wedding ceremonies but does not protect business owners from being forced to participate in activities that violate faith or conscience. The bill creates the potential of religious nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations being targeted with lawsuits or having their tax-exempt status revoked. 11/29/2022: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00362.htm
Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.393 – Equality Act -Would impact businesses, such as florists, photographers, venue owners, and bakers, who would be required to participate in same-sex weddings or gender transition celebrations. 2/23/2021:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/393/cosponsors
27.) WATCH:TNT Video – “Well the first thing we don’t need is universal healthcare. And if you don’t believe me then go to Canada.” @51:53 5/15/2024: https://tntvideo.podbean.com/e/hung-cao-on-unleashed-with-marc-morano-15-may-2024/
Hung Cao, Twitter/X – “Joe’s right. There’s a lot at stake in this election. Biden and
@JenniferWexton have failed [us]. [They]: Sent us into a recession. Support government-controlled healthcare. Attack the character of their political opponents” 10/12/2022: https://x.com/HungCao_VA/status/1580250385284943873
28.) Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.4616 – Medicare-X Choice Act of 2024 – A bill to establish a public health plan. 6/20/2024:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4616/cosponsors
Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.386 – Medicare-X Choice Act of 2021 – A bill to establish a public health plan. 2/23/2021: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/386/cosponsors
Candidate Website, Tim Kaine US Senate – “Bennet and Kaine’s bill would help achieve universal health care by making coverage more affordable and accessible.” 2024: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/bennet-kaine-reintroduce-medicare-x-choice-act-to-achieve-universal-health-care
Article, The Washington Examiner – “Sens. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) recently reintroduced their signature Medicare X Choice Act, which would create a public health insurance option through Medicare.” 6/30/2024: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3064085/cross-out-medicare-x/