WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) sent a letter to Senate leadership requesting the Senate's prompt consideration of a bipartisan package of National Forest bills that advanced unanimously out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on October 21, 2025. The bills affect public lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia (https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-and-kaine-applaud-unanimous-committee-passage-of-virginia-wilderness-bills), and Wisconsin.
"We write to respectfully request a process to advance a bipartisan package of National Forest bills to the President's desk. We are grate...