"This is a Virginia project, and they didn’t even bother to pick up the phone and call me?” Sen. timkaine asked a gaggle of reporters earlier this week. “Have I made them mad? The senator is disappointed that federal approval of the highly controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) was included in the federal debt ceiling bill, which is awaiting President Joe Biden's signature. Before the House and Senate voted, he filed an amendment to halt fast-tracking approval of the MVP. After the vote was finalized, the senator tweeted that he was "deeply disappointed" his effort to strip the harmful Mountain Valley Pipeline provision fell short and vowed to keep fighting for Virginians. . . . . . #virginia #virginianews #nationalnews #vapol #nationalpol #mvp #stopmvp #nomvp #mountainvalleypipeline