In the News
Virginia home for Northrop Grumman
Sep 26 2011
Senator Warner helped cut the ribbon on defense contractor Northrop Grumman’s new Fairfax headquarters. After a countrywide search, Northrop Grumman, a Fortune 100 company, relocated its corporate headquarters to Virginia from California, bringing with it 500 jobs for the Commonwealth.
The White House has nominated Maurice Jones, the publisher of the Norfolk, Virginia Virginian-Pilot, to become deputy secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Jones, 47, has been publisher of The Pilot since mid-2008, and he previously served as a top adviser to Senator Warner when he was Virginia’s governor.
As finance chiefs from around the world turn-up the heat on Europe to do more to prevent Greece's debt crisis from infecting the world economy, Senator Warner chaired a Banking subcommittee hearing to hear from a range of experts about what the crisis could mean for the struggling U.S. economy.
Third Annual Congressional Black Caucus Coffee
Sep 22 2011
Senator Warner and Rep. Bobby Scott hosted a Commonwealth Coffee for Virginians today who are in town to attend the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Convention. The Senator, Rep. Scott and our staff from across the Commonwealth mingled and chatted with more than 220 Virginians over donuts and coffee.
Urging the "super committee" to "Go Big"
Sep 22 2011
The New America Foundation hosted a discussion on Capitol Hill yesterday with a group of current and former members of Congress and White House officials from across the aisle, including Senators Warner and Mike Crapo (R-ID), Alice Rivlin, Erskine Bowles, Alan Greenspan, Pete Domenici, Governor John Engler, and the CEOs of the American Gas Association and Honeywell.
When I asked Virginians in 2008 for the privilege of serving them in the United States Senate, I pledged to go to Washington to try to lead a "radical bipartisan center" that would work together to find common ground to solve our nation's biggest challenges.
Virginia SkillsUSA members come to Washington
Sep 20 2011
Earlier today, Senator Warner had a meet-and-greet with several Virginians who were in town attending a SkillsUSA conference. SkillsUSA is a national organization comprised of over 300,000 members working to ensure America continues to develop a skilled workforce.
"Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., has assembled a group of 36 senators from both sides of the aisle to pressure the deficit-reduction "supercommittee" to go beyond the $1.5 trillion in reductions sought by the president and Congress in last month's debt deal."
"U.S. Sens. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, are spearheading a new effort by more than a third of the Senate to prod their colleagues on a deficit-cutting supercommittee to make a much larger dent in the deficit as well as changes to entitlement programs and tax laws."
Senator Warner announces formation of bipartisan group of 36 senators to encourage super committee to "go big" on deficit reduction
~ Warner leads new Senate coalition of 18 Republicans, 17 Democrats & 1 Independent ~
Sep 15 2011
Senator Warner today announced that he has organized a bipartisan coalition representing more than one-third of the members of the U.S. Senate to encourage the members of the congressional “super committee” to seek the broadest possible bipartisan agreement to address the nation’s deficits and debt.
