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Warner praises Senate passage of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act

Chris Graham

Today, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, applauded Senate passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which will strengthen cybersecurity efforts by encouraging private companies to voluntarily share information while ensuring individual privacy and civil liberties.

Warner, Kaine urge Social Security Administration to implement Supreme Court marriage equality decisions

Chris Graham

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) joined 119 of their congressional colleagues in a letter to Acting Commissioner of Social Security Carolyn W. Colvin and Attorney General Loretta Lynch to make sure that the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage equality decisions are implemented and that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is treating all marriages equally.

Where do the leading Democratic Party candidates for president stand on environmental issues?

Roddy Scheer

President Obama, with his recent push to join the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will be a tough act to follow on the environment. But each of the Democratic candidates has shown a willingness to continue fighting the green fight and working with industry and other nations to rein in emissions and promote sustainable development.

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Clean Power Plan goes into effect

AFP

The Clean Power Plan was published in the federal register today, beginning the process of cleaning up America’s dirtiest power plants, the leading source of U.S. global warming pollution. The rule’s publication is widely expected to trigger a new wave of polluter-driven attacks on the rule, both in the courts and in Congress.

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Mark Warner statement on House Benghazi hearing

Chris Graham

After the House select committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya conducted its daylong hearing today, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) released this statement on the need to move forward on the State Department’s preferred location for a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) at Fort Pickett near Blackstone, Virginia.