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Washington Post: 'Gang of 6' senators launch public campaign to support deficit reduction
Mar 08 2011
While Washington bickers noisily over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, Sens. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, launched a campaign Monday to convince the public that merely cutting spending will do little to tame the $14 trillion national debt.
While the Obama administration and Congressional Republicans fight in Washington over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, deficit hawks from both parties have taken to the road to persuade the public that the only way to really fix the nation’s finances is to shrink the growth of popular entitlement programs and to raise revenues.
Most lawmakers in Washington are preoccupied these days with paying the government's bills for the next couple of weeks or the next six months. But the real problem is the much larger debt looming in the distance. That's why a small, bipartisan group of senators, dubbed the "Gang of Six," has been meeting to focus on the longer term and how to deal with the government's mounting debt.
A step toward reducing waste
Mar 01 2011
Today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report outlining more than 80 ways we can reduce waste, modernize operations and eliminate duplication across the entire federal government. “This report confirms what we all know – that there is room to trim back our government spending, but we’ve got to do it carefully,” Senator Warner said in response to the report.
Not really a "gang," but...
Feb 28 2011
WHEN WE FIRST wrote in December to applaud the stop-the-dawdling debt reduction effort launched by Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), the bipartisan group seemed like a potentially useful adjunct to the momentum generated by President Obama's fiscal responsibility commission in the fall.
Sen. Mark Warner is trying. The Virginia Democrat, the prototypical political moderate, is part of a small group of senators seeking to do what nobody else in Washington seems capable of doing. They are trying to devise the Big Deal that will provide a fix to the country's frightening budget deficits, not just now but for years to come.
Starting the day with NPR and deficit reduction
Feb 17 2011
On today’s Morning Edition, Senators Warner and Chambliss (R-Ga.) sat down with NPR’s Steve Inskeep to talk about their work on deficit reduction and tax reform.
ICYMI: Lessons learned from JFCOM
Feb 15 2011
The Pentagon's decision to resize, refocus and rename Joint Forces Command has prompted uncertainty and anxiety for many families across South Hampton Roads. Hold on to your hats. It may be just the beginning.
Town hall in Charlottesville
Feb 11 2011
Senator Warner had a great conversation yesterday with employees at the State Farm operations center in Charlottesville. Employees were interested in his thoughts on government regulation and the economy, and the Senator also talked about his efforts to form a bipartisan coalition of colleagues to tackle the budget deficit and our nation’s spiraling debt.
This morning, Senator Warner visited Jane Foy and Rick Daniels at WINA's Morning News in Charlottesville. The Senator talked about everything from the need to get moving on deficit reduction, to transportation funding, to Jim Webb's decision to retire from the Senate.
