Press Releases

IRS to Warner: Uniforms for Public Safety Officials are Not Taxable

In response to request from Sen. Warner, IRS provides clarity to Virginia firefighters and police that the cost of clothing provided to wear on duty is not subject to taxation

Mar 11 2015

In a letter to Sen. Warner, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that firefighters and police officers will not be expected to pay taxes on common clothing items that they are required to wear while on duty.

Warner, Kaine Urge GAO to Investigate Safety of Highway Guardrails

Lawsuits Have Linked Faulty Guardrails Installed on Virginia’s Highways to More than a Dozen Accidents Nationwide; State is Currently in the Process of Removing ET-Plus Guardrails

Mar 03 2015

Sens. Warner and Kaine wrote to the GAO to request a formal investigation into the Federal Highway Administration process for evaluating the safety of roadside hardware, including guardrails that have been implicated in more than a dozen serious accidents in Virginia and nationwide.

Thune and Warner Introduce Reforms to Combat Medicare Fraud

Feb 26 2015

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Mark Warner (D-VA), both members of the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced the Better Efficiency and Administrative Simplification Act, which would allow Medicare beneficiaries to receive important Medicare benefit notices electronically and improve the way the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contracts with entities that help administer the Medicare program.

Sen. Warner Questions TRANSCOM About Plans to Improve Performance of Contractor Hired to Ship Servicemembers' Vehicles

TRANSCOM recently announced that it would continue to use troubled car-shipper International Auto Logistics to transport personal vehicles of troops stationed overseas

Feb 20 2015

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) today wrote to U.S. TRANSCOM Commander General Paul Selva with a series of questions regarding TRANSCOM’s announcement that it would continue to use International Auto Logistics (IAL), a DoD contractor that misplaced or lost thousands of service members’ cars, to ship troops’ personal vehicles to and from overseas assignments.

“I appreciate that TRANSCOM and IAL continue to work to meet the 98% required delivery date standard, and that you and IAL are hopeful that the upcoming peak shipping season will be better, but I request that you brief me as soon as possible on the concrete actions IAL has taken to improve performance and why you believe their new plan will be successful,” wrote Sen. Warner today.

TRANSCOM officials recently announced that IAL briefed military officials on Feb. 12 regarding changes the contractor is making to rectify widespread problems reported by thousands of service members whose vehicles had been shipped by IAL, which included late deliveries and misplaced or damaged vehicles. Following that meeting, TRANSCOM announced that IAL “demonstrated significant performance improvement” and had made the changes necessary to prepare for peak moving season, which will begin in May.

Sen. Warner wrote, “Since this problem emerged last summer I have worked with you and your staff to assist several hundred service members locate their cars when they could not get accurate information from the contractor. I do not believe it should be TRANSCOM’s, or a U.S. Senator’s job, to do the work for a contractor who is getting paid by the taxpayers to provide a service.”

In October, Sen. Warner met with Gen. Selva to express serious concerns about IAL’s substandard performance. The meeting followed series of letters from Senator Warner after TRANSCOM and the contractor were unable to show improvement in correcting on-going problems locating the vehicles of hundreds of Sen. Warner’s constituents.

Senator Warner Joins Colleagues in Calling for Special ACA Enrollment Period

Special enrollment period would be open to uninsured who paid 2014 tax penalty, but missed open enrollment period that ended February 15

Feb 18 2015

On Friday, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner joined Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and eight Senate colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell.

Sens. Markey & Warner Call on Obama Administration to Represent United States at First WHO Global Conference on Dementia

Lawmakers are co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease

Feb 18 2015

Senators Markey (D-Mass.) and Warner (D-Va.) today called on Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to attend the upcoming World Health Organization First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia to demonstrate the leadership of the United States on the human and economic threats posed by Alzheimer’s disease.

Warner, Kaine Co-Sponsor Legislation to Extend the Children's Health Insurance Program

Legislation Would Prevent More Than 10 Million Kids Nationwide, Including More Than 196,000 Virginia Children, From Losing Health Care Coverage; Without Action, CHIP Funding Will Expire in September

Feb 12 2015

With federal funding that provides health care coverage to more than 10 million children nationwide through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) set to expire, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine today joined 38 of their Senate colleagues to introduce legislation that would extend CHIP funding through 2019.
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