
Warner, Kaine announce $179M for COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Virginia
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced on Monday $179,010,000 in federal funding from FEMA to support COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Virginia.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced on Monday $179,010,000 in federal funding from FEMA to support COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Virginia.

You might have heard the story about hackers remotely breaching a Florida water treatment plant to try to alter water chemical levels in a move that could have poisoned thousands of residents.

The Trump administration, being the Trump administration, denied Virginia’s request for reimbursement for millions of dollars in costs associated with deploying the Virginia National Guard to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and through the inauguration.

There were an estimated 3.3 million pieces of unopened mail – including 1.6 million tax returns – at the four IRS Submission Processing Centers as of Nov. 19.

According to recent data from USDA, nearly 40 million Americans live in food deserts, areas defined to be without grocery stores within one or more miles in urban regions, and ten or more miles in rural regions.

Mail on-time delivery rates averaged just 52.4 percent in the Northern Virginia, 55.1 percent in the Richmond and 67 percent in the Appalachian Postal District in December.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner will host a free webinar on Friday at 10:30 a.m. for Virginia’s business community on the resources available to them to weather the economic crisis caused by COVID-19.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner will introduce the Health Care Improvement Act of 2021 to help counter the devastating effects the health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has had on the record high number of people lacking insurance across the country.

Virginia’s two Democratic senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, are backing the effort in Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.

Sen. Mark Warner is urging mobile carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon and social media companies Apple, Facebook, Gab, Google, Parler, Signal, Telegram, and Twitter to preserve content and meta-data connected to Wednesday’s attack on the U.S Capitol.
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