{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-discusses-efforts-to-end-sequester-at-bae-in-norfolk", "Kaine Discusses Efforts To End Sequester At BAE In Norfolk", "2013-12-02", "2013", "2013-12", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Tim Kaine", "K000384", "www.kaine.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Kaine Discusses Efforts To End Sequester At BAE In Norfolk\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tMonday, December 2, 2013\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0U.S. Senator Tim\u00a0Kaine, a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Budget Conference Committee,\u00a0visited\u00a0BAE Systems Ship Repair in Norfolk\u00a0today to meet with shipyard workers and tour the\u00a0facility.\u00a0During the tour,\u00a0Kaine learned more about the toll sequestration has taken on the ship repair industry, putting both the nation\u2019s security and the regional economy at risk.\r\nThroughout the tour, Kaine spoke with BAE employees and shared the latest on his efforts to replace the across-the-board sequester cuts and restore budget certainty for BAE and other companies in the region. As one of 29 conferees on\u00a0the Budget Conference Committee, Kaine is working to resolve differences between the House and Senate 2014 budgets before\u00a0December 13.\r\n\u201cMy role on the Budget Conference Committee is to come up with a deal that replaces as much of the sequester cuts as we can,\u201d Kaine said at the conclusion of the tour. \u201cThe uncertainty over ship repair contracts puts many important jobs across the region at risk. We're working hard to meet our December 13 deadline and I'm optimistic we will get a deal to replace as many of these harmful across-the-board cuts as we can. And if there are areas where we cannot replace them all, we can restructure them to make them less painful.\u201d\r\nSince passage of the Senate budget in March 2013, Kaine has consistently called for a budget conference between the House and Senate in hopes of returning to normal budgetary order and replacing the damaging sequester cuts that have severely impacted Virginia.\u00a0\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-discusses-efforts-to-end-sequester-at-bae-in-norfolk"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8965339511632919, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}