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Radio Round Robin
Nov 30 2012
Senator Warner called into three morning radio shows in Virginia today to discuss the looming fiscal cliff. He spoke with John Fredericks, whose morning show is broadcast in Norfolk, Richmond and Northern Virginia, and he also dialed-in to WRVA in Richmond and Washington’s WTOP Radio.
Holiday Mail for Heroes
Nov 29 2012
Senator Warner and his good friend Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado signed cards for the Red Cross's Holiday Mail for Heroes between votes this afternoon. For more information on how you can send holiday greetings to our troops this season, click here: http://www.redcross.org/support/get-involved/holiday-mail-for-heroes.
"Skyping" with the Virginia Chamber
Nov 29 2012
Senator Warner “Skyped” into Williamsburg today as a keynote speaker for the Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Summit, and spoke about his efforts in Congress to find bipartisan consensus on a rational and responsible plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Tweeting the #fiscalcliff
Nov 28 2012
Senator Warner held another Twitter town hall on Tuesday, fielding questions from constituents across the Commonwealth on issues as diverse as taxes, education and energy -- and even UVa’s football struggles during their 4-8 season.
Senator Warner talked to WAVY Norfolk’s Art Kohn yesterday afternoon about finding a bipartisan solution to upcoming automatic spending cuts.“[These] would be the worst kind of cuts: unplanned, across the board,” Senator Warner said.
Soon-to-be senior Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has been in the thick of recent federal appropriations battles. He led the original Gang of Six that tried to get a bipartisan deal on the budget going last year. Now, he's back at it, trying to head off sequestration. Warner says that, in spite of how it may seem, lawmakers understand the dangers of the fiscal cliff.
A Bipartisan Bridge over the Fiscal Cliff
Nov 14 2012
There’s a big downside if we fail – and a tremendous upside if we succeed.” That’s how Senator Warner summed up the current situation in Washington as Congress and the White House discuss ways to avoid the looming fiscal cliff – the combination of defense spending cuts and the expiration of tax cuts set to occur simultaneously at the beginning of the new year.
Rebooting America
Nov 09 2012
Senator Warner spoke today at Reboot America, a summit focused on how startups, corporations, and policymakers can collaborate on private sector solutions to public sector challenges and helping to create jobs in the fields of energy, education, health care, national security, and more.
“The election's over and the American people have spoken,” Senator Warner told NPR’s Melissa Block yesterday in an interview about working with the so-called “Gang of Eight” to avoid the fiscal cliff.
WSJ: CEOs Call for Deficit Action
Executives to Press Congress to Embrace Spending Cuts and Higher Tax Revenue
Oct 25 2012
Chief executives of more than 80 big-name U.S. corporations, from Aetna Inc. to Weyerhauser Co., are banding together to pressure Congress to reduce the federal deficit with tax-revenue increases as well as spending cuts.
The CEOs, in a statement to be released on Thursday, say any fiscal plan "that can succeed both financially and politically" has to limit the growth of health-care spending, make Social Security solvent and "include comprehensive and pro-growth tax reform, which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues and reduces the deficit."
The CEOs, in a statement to be released on Thursday, say any fiscal plan "that can succeed both financially and politically" has to limit the growth of health-care spending, make Social Security solvent and "include comprehensive and pro-growth tax reform, which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues and reduces the deficit."
