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Column by Feda Morton www.fedaforcongress.com I am deeply upset over the sweetheart deals that have been cut by the Senate’s Democratic leadership. At a time in our history when millions of American people are crying out for their voices to be heard around this great nation, our leaders are cutting back room deals with…
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Senator explains vote to end cloture on health-care debate Statement by Sen. Mark Warner www.warner.senate.gov I voted to advance the Senate health-care bill to final passage because the status quo is bankrupting our nation and hurting our ability to compete in a global economy. If we fail to act, Virginia’s small businesses will continue to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia’s two United States senators, within hours of each other earlier this week, were headlining efforts in the Senate aimed at impacting the health-care reform whirlwind winding up on Capitol Hill this December. Mark Warner was first out of the gate on Tuesday with the coalition of moderate Democrats…
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Staff Report www.warner.senate.gov A group of 11 freshman U.S. senators organized by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., are introducing today a package of amendments that will broaden and accelerate efforts to encourage innovation and lower costs for consumers across the U.S. health-care system. “The health-reform legislation now being considered by the Senate makes big strides…
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Thursday, Oct. 29 Good afternoon, everybody. Please, have a seat. Before I begin, I want to just acknowledge two people who are working extraordinarily hard on behalf of small businesses. First of all, the administrator of our Small Business Administration, Karen Mills, is here. (Applause.) The other individual who is on his way and will…
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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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