Mark R. Warner

• 08/06/09 -
  America needs a single bank regulator

  Financial Times Op-Ed: In recent weeks our financial markets have shown signs of recovery thanks to unprecedented action to stabilise markets and stimulate the economy. Yet this crisis has many distressing qualities. Perhaps most dispiriting is the sense that we have seen this movie before, and it wasn’t very good the first time, either.

• 07/27/09 -
  Exit Strategy Needed

  General Motors Corp. emerged from bankruptcy court earlier this month as a leaner and more focused company, and American taxpayers woke up as the owners of 61 percent of this "new GM."

• 06/28/09 -
  Health Care Reform: U.S. Needs More Options for Seniors

  WASHINGTON -- All of us can agree that our current health care system is in need of fundamental reforms that will expand access, improve quality, and increase value. As Congress prepares to spend a long, hot summer working to find bipartisan agreement on many proposed reforms, it is important that we also have a discussion about one area of health care reform that makes many of us uncomfortable: the care that we provide to our seniors and others with life-limiting illnesses.
• 06/28/09 -
  A Risky Choice for A Risk Czar

  Over the past six months, President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have worked tirelessly to rescue the U.S. economy from our nation's longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression. As the administration has shifted from crisis management to regulatory modernization, it has sought to vastly expand the powers of an opaque institution: the Federal Reserve. This is a mistake.
• 06/22/09 -
  Warner: Another Ex-Governor Adapts To the Senate

  Now a junior legislator, Warner is digging in to the grunt work of the Senate Banking Committee, where he has been staying below the radar, drawing on his successful experience in the private sector and working behind the scenes to try and help shape the panel’s approach to an overhaul of the nation’s financial regulatory structure — and in doing so, carve out a niche for himself in the Senate.
• 06/22/09 -
  Warner, Corker Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Maximize Taxpayer Returns of TARP Investments

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) spoke on the Senate floor today about bipartisan legislation he has introduced with Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) that will maximize returns of taxpayer investments into TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) assisted institutions. The bill provides for a responsible exit strategy from government ownership of TARP-recipient companies, such as AIG, Citigroup, and General Motors.
• 06/20/09 -
  Warner courts church leaders on health goals

  A group of clerics expressed interest Friday in U.S. Sen. Mark Warner's proposal to make end-of-life care part of the health care overhaul debate.
• 06/17/09 -
  Editorial: End-of-life choices should be explored

  Freshman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is courageous to submit a bill that encourages doctors and hospital staff to counsel terminally ill patients about foregoing extraordinary medical care. It's a tricky dilemma, asking doctors to launch into an uncomfortable conversation with a dying patient.
• 06/15/09 -
  Legislation focuses on end of life

  In an effort to curb health care spending and provide a better quality of life to terminally ill patients, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner has introduced legislation aimed at changing how end-of-life care is provided.
• 06/05/09 -
  Warner on Bloomberg TV

  Senator Warner appeared on Bloomberg Television on June 4, to discuss how before the government begins accepting repayments from financial institutions that have received TARP funds, Senator Warner said that he want to make sure the taxpayers, who are in effect investors in these companies, receive the best deal for their dollar.

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