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Senator Warner on Path Forward
Oct 18 2013
After Congress voted Wednesday to reopen the government and avert a credit default, Senator Mark Warner took a few minutes to talk about the negotiations he will take part in as a member of the House-Senate budget conference committee.
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) –- Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, discusses the Senate bill to end the government shutdown. He speaks with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Today, Senator Warner spoke on the floor after the Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced a bipartisan plan to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
"We're going to be right up against the edge of Thursday. And that is assuming everything goes well," Warner said during a conference call with reporters. "This time, the wolf may really be at the door."
On day 14 of the government shutdown and less than two days before the potential federal default, Senator Warner spoke to Virginia reporters about where negotiations stand in Congress.
Working for Furloughed Federal Workers
Oct 07 2013
Sen. Warner joined his colleagues from Maryland in putting a human face on news stories about furloughed federal workers. Sen. Warner introduced Carter Kimsey of Alexandria, who has worked for the National Science Foundation since 1976.
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner will donate an amount equivalent to his pay to the nonprofit Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund, which provides scholarships and emergency aid to federal workers, said his press secretary, Kevin Hall. The senator also did that during the recent sequester furloughs, Hall added.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Virginians have a right to be “mad as hell” about the partial shutdown of the federal government and he laid blame for the political train wreck on a faction of Republicans in the House of Representatives.
In his speech to the attendees of the opening, Senator Warner read from a letter that George Washington wrote, “Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the momentous concerns of an empire -- a great and accumulated debt; ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit -- are but secondary considerations, which are postponed, from day to day and week to week…”
Senator Warner appeared on PBS Newshour with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to talk about looming budget and fiscal deadlines which threaten a government shutdown.
