WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
Last week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, concluded a week-long series of bilateral meetings with local, state, and federal lawmakers and defense industrial base partners in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and Darwin, Australia, to discuss the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement. Kaine has long been a leading voice in Congress in support of the agreement, which aims to bolster the security interests of the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific and involves the sale of three to five Virginia-class submarines-a signific...