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On the Road: Richmond & Norfolk
May 07 2013
Senator Warner has been traveling the Commonwealth the last few months on weekends and no-vote days. He spent last Friday in Richmond and Saturday in Norfolk.
"Esta es la nueva cara de Virginia"
Feb 13 2013
Ambar Pinto is a 19-year-old Fairfax resident, a student at Northern Virginia Community College, and an undocumented immigrant who was brought to America by her parents when she was 12. She was also Senator Warner's guest at last night's State of the Union speech.
Virginia Chamber supports Startup 2.0
Jul 31 2012
The Virginia Chamber of Commerce is supporting Senator’s Warner’s bipartisan Startup 2.0 legislation, which would help support and grow small businesses and innovative start-up companies.
Senator Warner promoted bipartisan Startup Act 2.0 legislation he is sponsoring on CNN’s John King last night. Startup aims to jumpstart job creation by helping American entrepreneurs win the global competition for talent. Of course, the Senator could not pass up an opportunity to talk about his continuing efforts to craft comprehensive, bipartisan agreement on the deficit.
Rochester Business Journal: Startup strategy
Jun 01 2012
A bipartisan quartet of freshman senators on Capitol Hill has taken on two challenges: bolstering America's position as the world's most entrepreneurial nation and proving that Congress can get something done in an election year. It's a toss-up which challenge is the tougher one.
To see the results of self-defeating U.S. immigration policies, you need only open your browser to www.canadavisa.com. There, you’ll see a shrewd neighbor fishing for talent at U.S. expense.
The legislation bears the names of two Democrats and two Republicans. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., have joined Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., in sponsoring the Startup Act 2.0, which would promote entrepreneurs.
The new variant includes key provisions of the old bill that were highlighted in a previous blog post, such as creating STEM and entrepreneur immigrant visas to attract and retain human talent. A new provision, however, makes the Startup Act 2.0 even more potentially beneficial to the national clean energy innovation agenda.
This week, a bipartisan group of Senators has introduced a summer sequel worth watching in what they’ve dubbed “Startup Act 2.0.” This legislation would take one more big step in giving young businesses three crucial ingredients for success: talent, time and money.
Google: Google Statement on Startup Act 2.0
May 24 2012
"As a onetime start-up that now employs thousands of Americans and continues to hire many more each year, we are proud to support Senators Moran, Warner, Rubio, and Coons' Start-up Act,” former Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y., who is now Google’s vice president of public policy, said in a statement.
