
Senate Democrats urge House ERA passage
Last month, the Virginia Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) with broad bipartisan support. Since then, the Virginia House of Delegates has failed to bring the resolution to the floor.

Last month, the Virginia Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) with broad bipartisan support. Since then, the Virginia House of Delegates has failed to bring the resolution to the floor.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) urged his Senate colleagues to support legislation that would provide back pay to low- and middle-income federal contractors who otherwise will never see wages they missed during the partial government shutdown.

Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine applauded Senate passage of a bill that reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program that protects and preserves Virginia’s public lands.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) reintroduced legislation to reduce duplicative filing costs for small businesses seeking to make retirement plans available to their employees.

We are rapidly moving through the 2019 short session. One of the main sticking points is disagreement over how to use the budget surplus.

Senate Democratic Leader Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Mamie Locke (D-Hampton) comment on passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Senate.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine said today he objects to the Senate leaving town while hundreds of thousands of federal employees – many of them Virginians – are going without pay.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in calling for the Senate to vote on House-passed spending bills that would reopen the government immediately.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) comments after the Director of National Intelligence concluded that Russia and other foreign countries used social media and additional means of influence to target Americans during the 2018 midterm elections.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) released the following statement after the Senate passed by voice vote a continuing resolution that would keep the government open until Feb. 8, 2019.
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