Senator Warner stopped by the University of Virginia yesterday to speak to the "Up to Us" campaign about the deficit and debt. Up to Us is a student-led campaign to educate young people about the nation's fiscal issues.

"We have to stop seeing this as kind of the red-shirt Republicans and the blue-shirt Democrats and actually put the country first," Senator Warner said. "If not you should fire us all."

The Daily Progress's Ted Strong covered the event and recounted some of Senator Warner's more colorful anecdotes in his article:

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, asked the audience if they remembered the scene in the 1974 Mel Brooks spoof “Blazing Saddles,” in which the town’s new, black sheriff escapes a mob of unruly townspeople by taking himself hostage.

“That’s kind of what Congress does with sequestration,” he said.