参议员凯恩有望出任参议院预算委员会主席：现任民主党领袖默克利改争环境委员会
美国弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员 Tim Kaine 有望在下一届国会出任参议院预算委员会主席。彭博政府新闻（Bloomberg Government）11月12日报道，预算委员会现任民主党领袖、俄勒冈州参议员 Jeff Merkley 当天宣布将争取领导环境与公共工程委员会；凯恩是预算委员会中资历最深、且未预定主持其他委员会的民主党人，因此是这一位置可能的继任者。
凯恩在一份声明中说：「我对有机会担任它的下一任主席感到兴奋。」
凯恩长期就战争授权与战争经费问题发声。他今年6月在年度国防授权法案的委员会会议报告中提交附加意见，把美国对伊朗的战争称为「非法且愚蠢的战争」，并表示这是他从军委会加入参议院以来第一次对国防授权法案投下反对票，主张国会应使用拨款工具，约束未经国会授权的军事行动。
Senator Kaine Expected to Chair Senate Budget Committee as Merkley Seeks Environment Panel
Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine is expected to become chairman of the Senate Budget Committee in the next Congress. Bloomberg Government reported on November 12 that Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the committee's current leading Democrat, had announced that day that he would seek to lead the Environment and Public Works Committee instead. Kaine is the most senior Democrat on the Budget Committee who is not already positioned to chair another panel, making him the likely successor.
"I am excited by the opportunity to serve as its next chair," Kaine said in a statement.
Kaine has long spoken out on war powers and war funding. In June, in an additional view filed with the Senate Armed Services Committee's conference report on the annual defence bill, he called the United States' war with Iran "illegal and foolish," said it was the first time he had voted against the defence authorisation bill, and argued that Congress should use its appropriations tools to constrain military action that Congress has not authorised.
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图片来源：图：美国参议员 Tim Kaine 官方肖像（第119届国会）。公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (119th Congress). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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