36 senators, including Tim Kaine, press to add $320M for Israeli missile defense President Barack Obama in June threatened to veto legislation including that level of funding.
Tim Kaine, accepting VP slot, cites Holocaust survivor who died in shooting massacre The Virginia senator grew emotional as he remembered the heroism of professor Liviu Librescu at Virginia Tech in 2007.
Sanders delegates plan to fight Kaine nomination at convention A leading Sanders delegate said Hillary Clinton's selection of the Virginia senator as her running mate showed "demonstrable contempt for the progressive wing of this party."