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Protecting consumers and promoting growth
Jul 21 2010
Senator Warner joined President Obama and other Congressional leaders today at the bill signing ceremony for historic financial regulatory reform legislation he helped craft as a member of the Senate Banking Committee. The new law, which comes almost two years after the almost-collapse of the nation’s financial system, has been described as the most ambitious overhaul of financial regulation in a generation.
A plan to help small businesses recover
Jun 21 2010
Senator Warner hosted a roundtable discussion with small business owners and bankers on Friday at Richmond's Consolidated Bank & Trust to discuss his specific ideas to help small businesses get access to credit.
Senator Warner, who serves on the Banking Committee and was a leading architect of significant parts of the Wall Street reform legislation, issued the following statement after tonight's bipartisan 59-to-39 vote to adopt the legislation.
"Maybe it's just right for the American people"
May 20 2010
Senator Warner appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this morning to discuss Wall Street reform legislation as well as just-released news on an unexpected uptick in new unemployment claims.
Ensuring startups get access to credit
May 19 2010
Senator Warner joined a bipartisan group of Senators earlier this week to successfully add a key amendment in the Wall Street reform legislation to protect the ability of "angel investors" to support small business startups that will be vital to job creation.
Praising efforts to unfreeze credit markets
May 07 2010
Senator Warner praised the Obama administration today for sending Congress a proposal to create a $30 billion support program to unfreeze credit for the nation's small businesses.
Investigating the Wall Street freefall
May 07 2010
Senator Warner and Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman proposed an addition to the Senate's Wall Street reform bill that would direct the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to report to Congress on several of the key issues surrounding yesterday's market meltdown.
Senator Warner joined Senator Bob Corker, his Banking Committee working partner, this afternoon in in endorsing a batch of compromise amendments to the sections of the Wall Street reform legislation that the two senators produced together.
A key role in bipartisan Wall Street reform
May 03 2010
On Sunday, both the Washington Post and the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star carried profile stories on Senator Warner's central role in crafting the Wall Street reform proposal that is now pending on the Senate floor.
Warner working for centrist overhaul bill
Virginia senator has key role in the financial reform bill
May 02 2010
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star profiles Senator Warner's key role in crafting the Senate's financial overhaul bill.
