Warner, Perriello join Obama volunteers at Day of Action events

Chris Graham

Crowds of volunteers gathered across the entire Commonwealth Saturday to register new voters, just a week before President Obama comes to Richmond for his first day of campaign rallies. Volunteers were joined by Senator Mark Warner in Arlington, former Congressman Tom Perriello in Charlottesville, and Obama Campaign Deputy Operation Vote Director Michael Blake in Falls…

Warner amendment addresses federal pension backlog

Chris Graham

Postal reform legislation adopted by the U.S. Senate today on a vote of 62-37 included an amendment written by Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) that aims to accelerate and improve a federal benefits processing system that still relies on the hand-processing of paper records. Virginia is home to an estimated 130,000 federal workers, and many…

Warner joins in introducing bipartisan Alzheimer’s legislation

Chris Graham

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Senate co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, today introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution affirming the national goal of preventing and treating Alzheimer’s by 2025. Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas) introduced companion legislation in…

Warner: Time to run for White House may have passed

Chris Graham

Fourth in a four-part series A popular governor, an even more popular United States senator, Mark Warner is on everybody’s short list as a top contender for president in 2016. Warner himself, though, thinks that his time to make a run for the White House may have passed. “I didn’t know when I didn’t run…

Warner: ‘All-of-the-above’ on energy policy

Chris Graham

Third in a four-part series What can Washington do about the near-record gas prices that a lot of us fear will cripple the economic recovery that has been slow in arriving anyway? In the short term, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., concedes, not much. “It’s not like America is paying a signficantly higher price for…

Warner: ‘Jury is still out’ on bipartisan efforts

Chris Graham

Second in a four-part series Mark Warner ran for the Senate in 2008 as a “radical centrist” who could get Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill to find common ground and work together. The last three-plus years have been trying the patience of the Virginia Democrat. But Warner has hope – a glimmer, at least…