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Sen. Mark R. Warner said Monday he wants an immediate briefing on the F-22 Raptor and called on the Air Force to avoid penalizing the two Virginia-based pilots who have gone public with their concerns. His comments, relayed through a spokesman, came in response to Sunday's "60 Minutes" segment that featured two Raptor pilots from the Virginia Air National Guard based at Langley Air Force Base.
Politico: Congress must back Ex-Im Bank
May 08 2012
It is not often that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, organized labor and small-business executives can agree. However, all these groups in March joined in urging the Senate to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. Unfortunately, that effort was unsuccessful — though the bank helps support nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs.
Sen. Mark Warner told employees, volunteers and residents of Bay Aging elderly community something they probably already knew on Tuesday — that 90 percent of Americans think Congress is dysfunctional. "Let me assure you," he added, "that I am in the 90 percent."
Yesterday Senator Warner kicked off a two-day conference between federal agencies and manufacturers at NASA Langley in Hampton. The conference’s focus was advanced composite materials and Hampton Roads’ modeling and simulation infrastructure.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is hoping to spark the creation of a public-private partnership involving NASA Langley Research Center and private manufacturers to develop new uses for lightweight, man-made composite materials on aircraft and other products.
On the Road: Petersburg & Sandston
May 01 2012
The Senate is in recess, so Senator Warner will be traveling around the Commonwealth this week. His first stop was Petersburg this morning for the groundbreaking of the new Petersburg Public Library, which has been in the works for more than ten years.
Federal pension "tsunami" is coming
Apr 23 2012
With a current backlog of 63,000 cases, and up to 100,000 new retirements expected through proposed reforms to the Postal Service business model, Senator Warner is working to fix the federal government’s broken retirement process.
Discussing the deficit with Ferrum College
Apr 18 2012
The “Go Big” campaign stopped in Roanoke today at a forum hosted by Ferrum College, and Senator Warner joined the deficit reduction conversation by videoconference from his Capitol Hill office. The Senator said America’s $16 trillion debt grows by more than $4 billion each day Congress fails to act on our long-term debt.
Nine former excellencies
Apr 18 2012
Senator Warner travelled to Richmond last night to speak at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership gala – along with the rest of Virginia’s living governors. All nine of the former “excellencies,” including Senator Warner, Democrats Charles S. Robb, Gerald L. Baliles, L. Douglas Wilder, and Timothy M. Kaine, and Republicans Linwood Holton, George Allen, Jim Gilmore and current governor Bob McDonnell, spoke at the annual gala.
Welcoming Discovery to Virginia
Apr 17 2012
The original space shuttle Discovery took its final flight today after 27 years of service and 39 spaceflights. In Senator Warner's office on Capitol Hill, we were fortunate enough to see the shuttle, attached piggy-back style to a 747, fly along the National Mall on its way to its new home at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Northern Virginia.
