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U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner and Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello today lauded passage of legislation that would authorize the Department of the Interior to study whether the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford could be transferred to the National Park Service. The legislation was written in consultation with the Memorial, which recently reported…
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Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner this week joined 26 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the White House emphasizing that the Medicare program be redesigned to incentivize quality and value, rather than quantity, of provider services. Virginia and a number of other states have been identified as “high efficiency areas” for…
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Let me make this clear – if I’m Jim Webb or Mark Warner, I’m not letting a tea-party guy set up a health-care town hall for me, because I’d know what was really being set up – an ambush. That said, and I have a hard time believing that I’m going to agree with David…
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner will be in the Central Shenandoah Valley for two visits on April 16.
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One of my highest priorities in the Senate is to preserve Virginia’s abundant natural, historical and cultural resources. In January, we took a big step toward this goal with the passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which included three pieces of legislation I introduced last year to protect the Commonwealth’s large…
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While the chattering class has nattered over the Palin Effect in this month’s elections, less mentioned has been the Warner Effect. That is because, first, it affects Virginia. Venture outside the Commonwealth and even Democratic Convention-watchers might say, “Warner who?” As well, we Virginians have gotten rather used to Mark as well as John. The…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gallup and Larry Sabato are calling it a Barack Obama landslide, and a summary of the other major national polls has the Democrat on the verge of making history. Gallup’s final pre-election estimate has Obama winning 55 percent of the vote to Republican John McCain’s 44 percent. Sabato, the University…
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Staff Report U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner will make a campaign stop at the Waynesboro Democratic Committee ’08 Election Headquarters in Willow Oak Plaza on Sunday. Warner will stop at the headquarters to talk with volunteers and supporters at 1:30 p.m. Warner will also be in Staunton on Sunday at noon for a lunchtime meet…
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Video from the remarks offered by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner at the Barack Obama rally at the JMU Convocation Center on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Length: 7:00.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two Mark Warner campaign events scheduled for Monday in Waynesboro have been postponed. There was no word from the campaign as to why the events had to be taken off the schedule. An e-mail from the campaign noted that all events scheduled for Sunday and Monday had to be taken…
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