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"This plan is much too small."
Aug 02 2011
Senator Warner spoke to Fox News today about the debt ceiling deal and the continuing need for a longer-term deficit reduction package. As founder of the Gang of Six, Senator Warner helped develop a package that would cut $3.7 trillion from the deficit. “I think this plan is much too small. We need to be closer to $4 trillion in debt reduction," Senator Warner said.
"A fix -- but not a solution"
Aug 01 2011
Senator Warner will support the debt deal compromise legislation but he says it doesn’t do enough to tackle long-term spending and revenue. Warner, a member of the bipartisan “Gang of Six” group that offered its own $3.7 trillion deficit-cutting plan, says the deal “doesn’t get us to the core problem of how we tackle tax reform and entitlement reform.”
Senate Panel Endorses Recognition for Va. Tribes
Jul 28 2011
The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs today approved the “Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2011” (S. 379) cosponsored by U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb that would grant federal recognition to six Indian tribes of Virginia. Today’s Committee markup completes the final step needed before a full Senate vote on the legislation.
Politico: Warner expects deal on time
Jul 28 2011
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) thinks Speaker John Boehner’s plan to raise the debt-ceiling for six months carries “high, high debt downgrade possibilities” that would ultimately harm the American public. “The notion of re-litigating this in six months … I’m not sure what that’ll say to the markets around the world,” Warner said Thursday.
Running out of time and patience
Jul 27 2011
We know the tough choices that will be required to fix our nation’s finances, but what we no longer have is time. “And we appear to be racing at full speed toward the most predictable economic crisis of our lifetimes,” Senator Warner said during a floor speech this afternoon.
"There has never been more at stake."
Jul 27 2011
Senator Warner spoke to Virginia media last night about the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations in Congress. "We're really at a critical time. I can't think of a time in my business or political career when I think there has been more at stake," the Senator told Chelyen David of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.
Interns on the Inside of the Gang of Six Storm
Jul 26 2011
Nine of us started the internship around two and a half weeks ago. While we were attending orientation sessions and being trained in the office’s procedures, the staff was working towards a key achievement on the Senator’s top priority: negotiating a bipartisan solution for reducing the nation’s debt and deficit.
"The Debt Limit is Step One"
Jul 26 2011
Senator Warner appeared on Fox News and Bloomberg TV to talk about the status of debt ceiling negotiations. “Remember, getting past the debt ceiling is just step one,” the Senator said to Bloomberg’s Peter Cook. “We’ve still got to actually have a real deal to reduce the debt.”
Senator Warner and his colleague Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer on Sunday to discuss the impasse in the debt limit negotiations and their own year-long, bipartisan efforts through the Gang of Six. “My feeling has been we're still the only bipartisan effort in this town,” Senator Warner said.
A huge -- and by huge I mean maybe $4 trillion deficit reduction plan -- being offered up by three Democratic and three Republican senators, the "Gang of Six." The two sets of negotiations are parallel, you could say. They might possibly come to the same end point. Or they might not. Sen. Mark Warner's one of the six in the aforementioned gang.
