FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is traveling to Slaughter Pen battlefield in Fredericksburg to promote a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the American Battlefield Protection Program.

The Virginia Democrat is scheduled to promote the proposed amendment Friday with representatives of the Civil War Trust and the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. Kaine is co-sponsoring the bill with Sen. Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican.