WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner released a statement today following his vote for a clean spending bill to fund the government through November 15 and avoid a government shutdown: 

"We’ve wasted a week on political shenanigans while every minute we wait brings us closer to a government shutdown, which will hurt the economy and unfairly punish Virginia workers and families. We cannot allow ideological issues to stop us from funding the basic operations of the government, and we should be working to get the nation’s fiscal house in order."