Friday, March 29, 2013
Wary of ‘death panel’ rhetoric, the U.S. Senator wades carefully in third attempt.
As U.S. Sen. Mark Warner begins his third attempt to push a bill through congress that would begin to address one of the most costly and criticized elements of health care: making decisions for someone else makes them for you. Warner assembled a Round Table on Advanced Illness at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administration Building in Ashburn Wednesday to listen to a range of opinions. Warner explained that he understands the difficulty of the topic since his mother had Alzheimer’s and did not speak for the last 10 years of her life. “We’d never had that discussion,” Warner said, even though both of her parents suffered from same disease. The country as a whole seems to have trouble broaching the subject, he said. “It’s remarkable to …
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
State Sen. Adam Ebbin, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner among those who have changed their profile pictures.
You probably have seen a red square with a pink equals sign on it in your Facebook, Twitter and other social media feeds lately — a symbol that stands for marriage equality. It stems from an effort by the Human Rights Campaign that coincides with oral arguments being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week regarding the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA, as it is known, allows the federal government to discriminate against same-sex couples. The equality symbol signifies that marriage really is all about love, according to the Human Rights Campaign. "It's nice for people on Facebook to see their Facebook friends standing up, and seeing so many people doing that," said state Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria. Ebbin, who is…
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Legislation was introduced in U.S. House by Congressman Frank Wolf of Northern Virginia's 10th District, others.
On a vote of 14-4, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday passed U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s bipartisan CAMPUS Safety Act, which would consolidate federal campus safety efforts into the National Center for Campus Public Safety. U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10) and other congressmen have been working the bill through the House of Representatives. The Center would be authorized to issue grants to institutions of higher education and other nonprofit organizations to strengthen training and research initiatives and improve collaboration. In addition, K-12 schools would have access to resources provided through the Center. Currently, campus public safety officers are the only first responders without a comprehensive federal support resource to …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Loudoun's entire delegation to the U.S. Congress urges action; Kaine joins Warner, while Wolf sends letters to Obama, Boehner.
If sequestration goes into effect in March, it will be "worse than you can imagine," Virginia Sen. Mark Warner (D) told a group of mostly government contractors a Reston breakfast event Friday organized by the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Warner, along with junior Sen. Tim Kaine (D), spoke about the short-term and long-term impact of the potential $1 trillion federal budget cuts happen March 1 if Congress doesn't reach a compromise. Half of that would affect the defense industry, which some estimates say could cost Virginia more than 207,000 jobs. Sequestration could have a large impact in Reston, where hundreds of firms depend on government contracting, and thousands of workers are employed by various agencies and companies that …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Unlike Warner and Kaine, Wolf is mostly silent on regulating firearms.
After the terrible mass shootings in a Connecticut elementary school on Dec. 14, some of our elected leaders have said that we need to take another look at regulations on firearms, along with other issues such as mental health care and violent video games. President Obama outlined some of the measures that might be taken to reduce the unacceptable level of gun violence in this country, measures that he said a majority of Americans support – banning the sale of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, and requiring background checks before all gun purchases. I have stated my feelings on this subject before, in a column written on the anniversary of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech. All of the above measures …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Warner says he wants to continue his work in the U.S. Senate.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., announced Tuesday that he will not run for governor in 2013, saying that he wants to continue the work he was sent to do in Washington. Warner, in a statement issued shortly after 3 p.m., said Virginians of all political stripes have approached him over the past year to make the bid — which he said he would consider and then make a decision after the November election. "I’ve talked to a lot of Virginians I respect, and I’ve talked about it with my family," Warner said in a statement. "But when I asked Virginians to hire me as their Senator, I made a promise to come to Washington to try to be a problem solver. I have to admit, it’s been tougher than I expected. But I’ve tried to keep at it." Warner's decision…
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Senator tells Associated Press he'll announce decision before Thanksgiving.
Sen. Mark Warner plans to announce before Thanksgiving whether he'll run for governor again, according to the Associated Press. The former governor, a Democrat, served as the Commonwealth's chief executive from 2002 to 2006. Virginia is the only state in the country where a governor cannot succeed himself. Former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe has already thrown his hat in the ring and will face Republicans Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. If Warner walks away from another run for governor, he'll be teaming up in the Senate with the state's soon to be junior senator, Senator-elect Tim Kaine, who served as Warner's lieutenant governor and is himself a former governor of Virginia. In a poll conducted Nov. 8-12 by …
Sunday, June 3, 2012
State party convention drew more than 2,000 to the city of Fairfax this weekend.
FAIRFAX — Perhaps U.S. Sen. Mark Warner put it best: "In 2008, we changed the guard. In 2012, we need to guard the change." More than 2,000 Democrats from across the commonwealth descended on George Mason University this weekend for the Democratic Party of Virginia's State Convention. The gathering served as part pep rally, part organizational meeting as activists mobilize for November. Party leaders had similar messages, previewing what they will try to hammer home while Virginia is in the national spotlight as a battleground state for the U.S. presidency. That message, they say, is that the right-wing takeover of the Republican Party has made this country, and this state, unrecognizable and infringes on the rights of gays, women and …
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Calculations from the Center for Responsive Politics are based on Congress members' self-disclosures and estimates.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is the second wealthiest senator in the U.S. Senate, according to calculations from the Center for Responsive Politics published in The Washington Post Tuesday. The calculations are broad estimates based on Congress members’ own disclosures of their assets and liabilities, not including their home. The disclosure forms do not require exact numbers—just estimated ranges. The calculations then are based on the midpoint of each range, subtracting liabilities from assets. Warner’s net worth for 2010 was estimated to be upwards of $192 million, second only to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who’s net worth in 2010 was estimated to be north of $231 million. Virginia’s other U.S. senator, Jim Webb, has an estimated net …
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