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Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) –- Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, discusses the Senate bill to end the government shutdown. He speaks with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Today, Senator Warner spoke on the floor after the Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced a bipartisan plan to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
On day 14 of the government shutdown and less than two days before the potential federal default, Senator Warner spoke to Virginia reporters about where negotiations stand in Congress.
Statement of Sen. Warner on IRS allegations
May 13 2013
“These appalling actions by the IRS are completely unacceptable. We need a quick but thorough investigation, and those who are found to have been responsible for this betrayal of the public trust should be fired.”
Congress and the White House have a limited time to reach a compromise on taxes and spending to avoid going off a "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year. While some are not optimistic that a deal will be reached this month, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner believes we won't go over the cliff.
A Bipartisan Bridge over the Fiscal Cliff
Nov 14 2012
There’s a big downside if we fail – and a tremendous upside if we succeed.” That’s how Senator Warner summed up the current situation in Washington as Congress and the White House discuss ways to avoid the looming fiscal cliff – the combination of defense spending cuts and the expiration of tax cuts set to occur simultaneously at the beginning of the new year.
Washington Examiner: Warner takes lead role in forging 'Gang of Six' deficit compromise
By David Sherfinski
May 10 2011
Virginia Democrat Mark Warner described a deficit-reduction plan he and other U.S. senators are promoting to a group of business leaders in Northern Virginia on Monday, saying that a solution to the country's ballooning national deficit can't wait much longer.
Forward motion
Mar 10 2011
Since Monday’s town hall with business leaders in Richmond, the bipartisan efforts of Senators Warner and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) have gotten more attention. Their role in leading the so-called “Gang of Six” in proposing a responsible, long-range plan to cut spending, reform taxes and strengthen entitlement programs like Social Security has been endorsed by newspapers across Virginia.
Senator Warner on the budget
Mar 08 2011
Senator Warner will vote against the House spending proposal because it is short-sighted and could harm the country’s economic competitiveness. The Senator is a leader of a bipartisan group of Senators working for a more responsible, long-range blueprint to cut our deficits and debt.
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.
