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On the Road: Reston and Leesburg
Feb 08 2013
"The across-the-board sequestration cuts," Senator Warner said this morning to a group of Northern Virginia defense contractors and technology executives, "will be even worse than you imagine."
Energy 2030
Feb 07 2013
Today Senator Warner and a coalition of energy leaders unveiled a set of recommendations designed to double U.S. energy productivity by 2030. “Doubling our energy productivity will yield huge returns for our economy and increase our competitiveness,” said Senator Warner, who serves as co-chair of the Alliance to Save Energy with National Grid U.S. President Tom King.
Ambar Pinto, a young Fairfax County woman advocating immigration reform, has the rare chance of taking her case to Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
After reading about Pinto’s story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., decided to invite her to be his guest at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech.
After reading about Pinto’s story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., decided to invite her to be his guest at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech.
Honoring NASA Remembrance Day
Sen. Warner Commemorates 10th Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy
Feb 01 2013
Yesterday Senator Warner cosponsored a resolution to mark today, the 10th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy as NASA Remembrance Day.
Faced with profound Navy budget cuts this spring that could wallop Hampton Roads' economy, Virginia's senators and the region's three congressmen said this week they don't consider the reductions inevitable - as has been suggested by some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
In a statement, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine also criticized the legislation.
“On a day when Americans celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and inaugurated Barack Obama as president, Virginia Senate Republicans took advantage of the absence of civil rights leader Sen. Henry Marsh to push through a hyper-partisan change to Virginia’s already gerrymandered legislative district map,” the Virginia Democrats’ statement read. “This is not the way we should be conducting the people’s business in Virginia.”
“On a day when Americans celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and inaugurated Barack Obama as president, Virginia Senate Republicans took advantage of the absence of civil rights leader Sen. Henry Marsh to push through a hyper-partisan change to Virginia’s already gerrymandered legislative district map,” the Virginia Democrats’ statement read. “This is not the way we should be conducting the people’s business in Virginia.”
The federal government currently produces nearly 400 reports — often at the behest of Congress — that the Office of Management and Budget says are redundant or in need of significant streamlining.
But the reports, which Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) likened to agency "busy work," will continue unless Congress explicitly authorizes their elimination.
But the reports, which Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) likened to agency "busy work," will continue unless Congress explicitly authorizes their elimination.
The Virginia Senate on Friday approved a bill that would ban anti-LGBT discrimination against state employees.
The 24-16 vote came four days after the Senate General Laws and Technology Committeenarrowly approved Senate Bill 701.
The 24-16 vote came four days after the Senate General Laws and Technology Committeenarrowly approved Senate Bill 701.
NEWPORT NEWS— Sara Jane Arnett of Newport News was hoping to score tickets to the presidential inauguration. She ended up with a more direct connection.
Arnett, an award-winning military spouse, will attend the swearing-in ceremony at the request of Virginia Sen. Mark R. Warner, who invited her as his special guest.
Arnett, an award-winning military spouse, will attend the swearing-in ceremony at the request of Virginia Sen. Mark R. Warner, who invited her as his special guest.
Sen. Mark Warner has reintroduced election reform legislation aimed at making it easier and faster to vote.
