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A memorial fund has been established to support the needs of the family of Deriek Crouse, the Virginia Tech Police officer who was fatally shot Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Those wishing to contribute can mail checks, payable to “Deriek Crouse Memorial Fund,” to the address below:
Working to help victims of tainted drywall
Dec 06 2011
“I’ve been involved in politics and government for 20 years, and I can’t think of a more frustrating issue that I’ve been involved with than this issue with drywall,” Senator Warner said at a Senate hearing on contaminated drywall this morning. Senator Warner, with Florida Senator Bill Nelson had called for the hearing today before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance.
Mark Center BRAC traffic: Enough is enough
Dec 01 2011
The Department of Defense Inspector General released a report today arguing that the proposed move of almost 6,500 workers to the Mark Center would result in “extreme traffic congestion with possible gridlock conditions” in the West End of Alexandria. “The Army needs to take a time out on putting more people in the building until we have transportation improvements in place,” Senator Warner said.
Politico: Update tax policy, rebuild schools
Nov 30 2011
America’s economic recovery continues to pose tough challenges. Our citizens need good jobs, and our students need the skills to compete for those jobs in the years ahead. During a time of economic uncertainty, we need to work together on creative ideas that confront these challenges in an innovative manner.
The second annual Virginia Women's Conference
Nov 22 2011
Senator Warner and Old Dominion University hosted Saturday’s second-annual Virginia Women’s Conference, which welcomed about 750 women to Norfolk. “Look, I have an amazing wife and three almost perfect daughters,” Senator Warner said Saturday in his remarks to open the conference. “I know who really runs the show.”
Missed opportunity
Nov 22 2011
The inability of the Congressional supercommittee to meet its deadline identifying $1.2 trillion in debt reduction is both disappointing and frustrating. "Unless you can help the politicians get out of their foxholes, we're not going to get this stuff done," Senator Warner told about 50 students at a Virginia Commonwealth University.
On the Road: Richmond
Nov 21 2011
Senator Warner spoke to VCU students this morning in Richmond about the need to tackle our debt and deficit crisis in order to move on to encouraging job creation, an issue all-too-familiar to college students these days.
On the Road: Hampton & Virginia Beach
Nov 18 2011
Three weeks after the President approved a National Park Service role at Virginia's historic Fort Monroe in Hampton, Senator Warner traveled to the Peninsula to meet with newly appointed Fort Monroe National Monument Superintendent Kirsten Talken-Spaulding and Hampton Mayor Molly Ward.
Senator Warner chaired a Senate Budget Committee Government Performance Task Force hearing yesterday to discuss the United Kingdom’s recent regulatory reform efforts and distill lessons that might be applicable to the current regulatory reform debate in Congress.
RTD: Warner group to debt panel: 'Go big'
Nov 17 2011
Even as the so-called supercommittee's deficit-reduction efforts appeared to languish this week with a Thanksgiving eve deadline looming, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., was leading a bipartisan coalition of 145 legislators calling on the panel to "go big." "Failure can't be an option. The whole rest of the world is watching," Warner said at the Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday surrounded by dozens of colleagues.
