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On the Road: Petersburg & Sandston
May 01 2012
The Senate is in recess, so Senator Warner will be traveling around the Commonwealth this week. His first stop was Petersburg this morning for the groundbreaking of the new Petersburg Public Library, which has been in the works for more than ten years.
Nine former excellencies
Apr 18 2012
Senator Warner travelled to Richmond last night to speak at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership gala – along with the rest of Virginia’s living governors. All nine of the former “excellencies,” including Senator Warner, Democrats Charles S. Robb, Gerald L. Baliles, L. Douglas Wilder, and Timothy M. Kaine, and Republicans Linwood Holton, George Allen, Jim Gilmore and current governor Bob McDonnell, spoke at the annual gala.
On the Road: Fredericksburg and Ashland
Apr 04 2012
As part of the Senate's spring break, Senator Warner traveled through Fredericksburg and Ashland to host two campus town halls and to meet with constituents, business and community leaders.
Ashland holds a special place in the heart of U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va. After all, it saved his life. On a walking tour of South Railroad Avenue before a student town hall at Randolph-Macon College on Tuesday, Warner told a group of town officials about the time as governor when he rode his bike though Ashland, bareheaded. listened.
Senator Warner has launched a contest to pick a cover photo of Virginia for his Facebook page by asking for submissions from his more than 16,500 followers. Facebook, the popular social media tool, will be transitioning all pages to their new Timeline format on Friday, March 30. As part of the new format, all pages must include a large “cover photo.”
Go Rams! Sen. Warner Skypes into VCU
Feb 28 2012
Senator Warner skyped in to a classroom full of Virginia Commonwealth University today to speak with about 100 students about his work on bipartisan deficit and debt reduction, and his efforts to make it easier for innovators and entrepreneurs to form new businesses and create jobs.
Wall Street Journal: A Bipartisan Plan for Job Creation
By Senators JERRY MORAN And MARK WARNER
Feb 07 2012
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama called on Congress to pass an agenda that helps start-ups and small businesses succeed. We have already introduced a plan that shares his goals. It's called the Startup Act. Research conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and others has consistently shown that companies less than five years old accounted for nearly all net job creation in our economy over the past three decades.
Connecting with Tweeps
Feb 02 2012
It’s not easy limiting a politician to answers of 140 characters or less, so we had a lot of fun today helping Senator Warner conduct his first Twitter Town Hall. As the co-founder of Nextel and a former venture capitalist, the Senator appreciates the role of new technology and he’s a big fan of social media.
Backlog plagues fed government's pension system
Feb 02 2012
Backlogs and delays continue to plague the federal government's pension system. Retirees wait an average of five months to receive their first full pension check -- but delays of a year or more are common. The Office of Personnel Management says it has plan to hire more people to process a backlog of 64,000 paper records, but it could take 18 months or more to solve the problem.
Civil rights legend to attend SOTU
Jan 24 2012
Virginia civil rights legend Rev. Curtis Harris, Sr. will be Senator Warner’s guest at tonight’s State of the Union address from the President. Rev. Harris, 87, was a friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He “spent much of the 1960s and '70s picketing, marching, confronting Ku Klux Klansmen, filing lawsuits and occasionally getting tossed in jail while fighting for equality,” according to the Richmond Times Dispatch.
