Press Releases
Senator Warner has repeatedly called on the IRS to address this issue and recently wrote to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen requesting more information about the agency’s ability to detect and combat fraud.
Warner, Kaine Applaud Committee Passage of Bill to Grant Federal Recognition of Virginia Indian Tribes
Mar 18 2015
Today, the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2015 cleared its first procedural hurdle with passage out of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
Warner, Corker, Colleagues Urge FHFA Director Mel Watt to Move Beyond Duopolistic Tendencies of the Past
Senators push for changes in the development of the Common Securitization Platform to help facilitate greater competition in the secondary mortgage market
Mar 17 2015
In a letter to the FHFA director, a bipartisan group of Senate Banking Committee members raised concerns about the development of the Common Securitization Platform and urged the agency to adopt changes to ensure the CSP is accessible to not only Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but also private sector participants.
Warner, Kaine Praise Interim Relief for Virginia Seafood Industry
Following letter by Warner, Kaine & colleagues, Departments of Labor and Homeland Security provide interim relief from H-2B ruling
Mar 17 2015
Today, U.S. Sens. Warner and Kaine praised the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security for providing interim relief to Virginia businesses that rely on seasonal workers, including the seafood industry, but underscored that many details must still be worked out.
Crapo, Warner Lead Bipartisan Group of Senators To Stop G-Fee Budgetary Gimmick
Senators say practice is a back door tax on
Mar 17 2015
Sens. Crapo (R-Idaho) and Warner led a bipartisan group of their colleagues on the Senate Banking Committee today to introduce a budget point of order to prevent the Senate from using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from financing unrelated spending.
Warner, Hatch Introduce Bipartisan Geospatial Data Act
New GAO report reveals duplication, minimal oversight
Mar 17 2015
Sens. Mark Warner and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced the bipartisan Geospatial Data Reform Act to improve oversight and reduce duplication in the management of geospatial data.
Warner, Kaine Fight for Virginia Seafood Industry
Join a dozen bipartisan Senators in calling for Labor and Homeland Security Secretaries to immediately resume processing of H-2B applications
Mar 13 2015
Today Sens. Warner and Kaine joined 12 bipartisan Senators in calling on the Departments of of Labor and Homeland Security to immediately resume accepting and processing H-2B visas critical to Virginia's seafood industry.
Sen. Warner on the Passing of Meyera Oberndorf
Mar 13 2015
"Meyera was a friend of mine for more than 20 years. She was trailblazing leader, a real sparkplug and dedicated public servant."
Virginia Delegation Applaud Navy Commitments to Virginia Ports
U.S. Navy will position newest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) in Hampton Roads and maintain Little Creek as a deep-water port and retain four amphibious ships through 2020
Mar 12 2015
Today, the Virginia Congressional delegation announced that the U.S. Navy will position its newest carrier, the Gerald Ford, at Naval Station Norfolk for the next several years given its unique capabilities and capacity.
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 Introduce Legislation to Authorize Expanded Petersburg National Battlefield
Mar 11 2015
Sens. Warner and Kaine introduced legislation that would protect some of the most endangered Civil War battlefields in the country by authorizing the National Park Service to acquire more than 7,000 acres to add to Petersburg National Battlefield.
Warner, Toomey Team Up in Support of Employee Ownership of Companies
Senators introduce the bipartisan Encouraging Employee Ownership Act
Mar 09 2015
Senator Warner and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are reaching across the aisle again to assist fast-growing private companies and their workers with taking a stake in their company’s future.
Today Sen. Mark Warner met with U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to be Attorney General of the United States.
Statement of Senator Mark Warner Following the Israeli Prime Minister's Speech to Congress
Mar 03 2015
“In this critical period of negotiations between the U.S., our international partners and Iran, it is important to hear the views of our strongest allies like Israel."
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.
Sen. Warner released a statement after U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced that she will not seek reelection to the Senate in 2016.
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.
Warner and Bipartisan Coalition of Senators Introduce Legislation to Prevent Sexual Assaults on College Campuses
Joined by survivors and advocates, bipartisan group of 10 Senators reintroduces strengthened version of Campus Safety and Accountability Act with added input from colleges and universities, students, law enforcement, and advocates
Feb 26 2015
Sen. Warner and a bipartisan coalition of 10 Senators introduced a strengthened version of the Campus Accountability and Safety Act.
Today, Sens. Warner and Kaine joined a bipartisan group of 40 colleagues in writing to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald raising serious concerns about the implementation of the Veterans Choice Card program.
Today U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined a dozen colleagues in introducing legislation, the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act of 2015, that would guarantee full pay for federal workers at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who could be furloughed because of a lapse in federal funding or agency shutdown.
Sen. Warner and Kaine Urge Timely Release of Long-Awaited Regulations for Trains Hauling Bakken Crude Oil
Derailment in WV last weekend followed 2014 accident in Lynchburg
Feb 20 2015
Sens. Warner and Kaine today urged federal regulators to move quickly to finalize and publish new safety regulations on oil trains.
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.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner Calls on IRS to Address and Prevent Tax Refund Fraud
Updated GAO estimates reveal IRS paid out $5.8 billion in fraudulent refunds to identity thieves in 2013
Feb 20 2015
As tax season ramps up, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be more proactive in preventing and addressing cases of identity theft and taxpayer fraud.
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.
