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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.
"The Can can kick back"
Jul 22 2011
Student body presidents from more than 100 colleges across the country have signed onto a letter urging Congress and the White House to quickly reach a consensus on the debt ceiling crisis.
"Change always scares folks."
Jul 22 2011
This morning Senator Warner and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) talked to NPR Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep about the bipartisan deficit reduction plan proposed this week by the “Gang of Six.”
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of six senators released a plan to cut spending and raise tax revenues that aims to reduce the nation’s deficits by at least $3.6 trillion over the next decade.
Mr. Warner, a centrist former governor, has made reaching a deal to reduce the nation’s deficit the primary goal of his early tenure in the Senate. He started nearly as soon as soon as he arrived in Washington, leading the “gang” with Senator Saxby Chamblis, Republican of Georgia.
New York Times: The Grand Bargain Lives!
Jul 22 2011
Over the past few weeks, Washington has seemed dysfunctional. Public disgust has risen to epic levels. Yet through all this, serious people — Barack Obama, John Boehner, the members of the Gang of Six — have soldiered on. They’ve been responsible and brave.
Support is growing for the Gang of Six deficit and debt reduction plan. Northern Virginia Republican Congressman Frank Wolf and Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper are asking House Speaker John Boehner applauding the plan and calling for the “full and immediate attention of the House of Representatives.”
