
Senate approves Burr-Warner amendment to make it easier for students to repay loans
The Senate approved an amendment co-sponsored by U.S. Sen Mark Warner (D-VA) to simplify student loan repayment plans and make it easier to repay student loans.

The Senate approved an amendment co-sponsored by U.S. Sen Mark Warner (D-VA) to simplify student loan repayment plans and make it easier to repay student loans.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement on the announcement by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that it will revise the 40-mile eligibility rule for the Veterans Choice program.

Bernice Steinhardt, president and chair of Art and Remembrance, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.

U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine along with 19 other Senators sent a letter calling on the Senate Appropriations Committee to support robust investment for a Safe Transportation of Energy Products program to address increasing safety concerns related to the transportation of Bakken crude and other energy produc

Republican 23th State Senate District candidate Dan Moxley was endorsed for office today by local Augusta County business owner, former Augusta County Republican Committee Secretary and North River Magisterial District Chair, and former United States Navy Congressional Appropriations Committee Liaison Officer, Al Katz.

By the time the comment period for the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule ended in November 2014, Americans had shared more than 1 million comments with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing S. 819, the Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015.

There are many issues plaguing our nation’s immigration system, but the biggest problem is that immigration laws are not enforced.

The Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2015, a bill reintroduced in February by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, cleared its first procedural hurdle with passage out of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.

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