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Feb 11, 2025

Kaine, Warner want answers from FAA about possible Musk intervention

In the wake of the fatal Washington, D.C., collision between a U.S. Army helicopter and an airplane, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, along with other Democratic lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia, want assurance that leaders at the Federal Aviation Administration will notify Congress if billionaire Elon Musk directs the agency to take any […]

Jan 29, 2025

Kaine, Warner respond to Trump White House rescinding spending freeze memo

The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded a controversial memo issued Monday that froze spending on more than $3 trillion in federal financial assistance, including grants and loans backing economic development and infrastructure projects across the nation. In the two-sentence memo issued Wednesday, Matthew J. Vaeth, acting director of the Office of  Management and […]

Sep 29, 2024

October 2024 Out and About

1. Attending this summer’s Olympics games in Paris, (L to R) U.S. Sen. Mark Warner met with NBA basketball star Steph Curry, who won gold with the U.S. men’s national team, and Casey Wasserman, chair of LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy Office of U.S. Sen. Mark […]

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine attended a Dec. 7, 2023, event announcing $729 million in federal transportation funding for projects including completing the new Long Bridge across the Potomac River. Photo courtesy Office of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.
Dec 7, 2023

$729M federal transportation package will finish Long Bridge expansion

The most significant rail choke point on the East Coast will be fixed as part of a $729 million federal funding package for transportation projects in Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday at an event in Arlington County also attended by a […]

Nov 29, 2023

Warner condemns FBI HQ site selection as ‘corrupt’

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Nov. 9 that the General Services Administration’s selection of Greenbelt, Maryland, instead of Fairfax County for the new FBI headquarters was a “corrupt” process, and that he expected better from the Biden administration. Warner‘s comments followed an email that day from FBI Director Christopher Wray to the agency’s entire workforce, […]

Tom Barkin speaks at the 2023 Investing in Rural America conference in Roanoke. Photo courtesy Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Apr 12, 2023

Innovation, capital key to rural growth, Barkin and Warner say

There’s hope for economic growth in rural areas despite their challenges, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Wednesday during the Fed’s 2023 Investing in Rural America conference in Roanoke. Rural areas could overcome economic development challenges, particularly housing shortages and lack of broadband access, with innovation, [...]

Oct 28, 2022

Out and About November 2022

1. State Sen. Creigh Deeds speaks at the Sept. 30 dedication ceremony for inpatient psychiatric care at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters’ Children’s Pavilion. Photo courtesy CHKD  2. Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivers keynote speech at Liberty University’s Networking the Nations CEO Summit on Oct. 6. Photo by Eva […]

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