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With COVID-19 Adding to Financial Strain, Bipartisan Senators Introduce Bill to Help Rural Hospitals Keep Their Doors Open

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today introduced the Save Rural Hospitals Act of 2021 to fix a flawed formula…

Warner & Kaine Reintroduce Bill to Protect George Washington National Forest’s Wilderness

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine reintroduced the Virginia Wilderness Additions Act, legislation that would add a total of 5,600 acres to two existing wilderness areas within…

Warner Urges Virginia to Speed Distribution of Unemployment Benefits

WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), a former Governor of Virginia, wrote a letter to Gov. Ralph Northam urging him to do everything he can to accelerate Virginia Employment Commission’s (VEC) process of…

Warner Joins Colleagues in Introducing Resolution Condemning Anti-Asian Hatred, Discrimination Related to COVID-19 Pandemic

WASHINGTON –Today, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) joined Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) along with 34 of their Senate colleagues introduced a resolution to condemn all…

Warner & Kaine Announce More Than $2.3 Million in Federal Funding to Update Community Facilities & Equipment to Better Serve Rural Virginia

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $2,390,400 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide much needed infrastructure improvements around the…

Virginia Congressional Delegation Urges Biden to Include Critical Funding for Norfolk Harbor Project in FY22 Budget Request

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), along with U.S. Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA), Rob Wittman (R-VA), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Don Beyer…

Warner & Blunt Introduce Legislation to Amend Legislative Error, Protect Rural Health Clinics During COVID-19

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced legislation today to prevent further financial instability for rural health clinics and safeguard the care they provide…

Statement of Sen. Warner on the Release of A Ten-Year Plan for the U.S. Postal Service by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner issued a statement after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy released a ten-year strategic plan for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that would raise postage rates, slow some mail…

To Address Housing Crisis, Warner Joins Colleagues in Urging Appropriators to Provide Robust Funding for NeighborWorks America

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and 40 of their Senate colleagues in a letter to the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development,…

Democrats Outline Unemployment Insurance Technology Priorities for American Rescue Plan Funds

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., joined Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Representative Steven Horsford, D-Nev., in sending a bicameral letter to Labor Secretary…