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Newsletter: Three Reasons to be Optimistic
Mar 13 2013
Dear Friends, I write to you today amid hopeful signs that Congress soon will take meaningful steps to avert mindless, across-the-board sequestration cuts -- and maybe, just maybe, address our broader fiscal challenges in a real way.
Senator Warner Talks Startup 3.0 at SXSW
Mar 11 2013
Senator Warner attended the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) technology conference in Texas this weekend to promote his bipartisan Startup Act 3.0 legislation, and to meet with innovators, entrepreneurs and tech industry professionals.
Sen. Warner Challenges 'Too Big to Jail'
Mar 07 2013
Senator Warner had the gavel today as the Senate Banking Committee questioned financial regulators about their failure to date to pursue criminal prosecutions for big banks that have violated the law. In recent years, a series of major violations of anti-money laundering laws by big banks have led to questions about how effective federal efforts to enforce these laws really are – and whether major banks are still ‘too big to prosecute.’
"Got your message - have a minute?"
Mar 06 2013
Yesterday Senator Warner grabbed a handful of letters and emails from constituents, deciding to call some of those Virginians personally to listen to their concerns and express that he shared their frustration with Congress, but would continue to work to replace these broad cuts with a smarter bipartisan proposal.
Sen. Warner Joins The John Fredericks Show
Mar 04 2013
Senator Warner joined Virginia radio host John Fredericks this morning for a wide-ranging discussion covering issues from sequestration and its impact on Virginia to immigration and regulatory reform.
Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Mar 04 2013
Senator Warner says he was “tremendously moved” after joining Georgia U.S. Rep. John Lewis and three-dozen colleagues this weekend for the Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage through Alabama. The annual event included stops in Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and Birmingham, and culminated in Sunday’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Sen. Warner Signs DOMA Repeal Brief
Mar 01 2013
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) today signed an amicus brief filed in the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Edith Schlain Windsor, a challenge to Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA. A total of 40 Senators and 172 members of the House signed onto the brief.
Senator Warner appeared on WHSV yesterday to discuss the automatic spending cuts due to hit on Friday, March 1.
Asked what he was doing to try and avert the cuts, Senator Warner detailed legislation that members of the Senate plan to put forward before the deadline.
Asked what he was doing to try and avert the cuts, Senator Warner detailed legislation that members of the Senate plan to put forward before the deadline.
Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine hosted a ‘Commonwealth Coffee’ this morning in Washington. The event was open to all Virginia constituents, and more than 150 came to meet the two Senators and hear them speak about sequestration and the other challenges that Congress and the Commonwealth will face in the coming months.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, R-Va., has reintroduced a bipartisan measure aimed at consolidating existing federal campus safety programs into a single National Center for Campus Public Safety. The proposed center would be charged with empowering campus law enforcement officials across the country with training, research and best practices aimed at increasing safety and preventing future campus violence.
