In case you missed it, our staff put together this quick video about Senator Warner's recent trip to Danville, Martinsville, Rocky Mount and Bedford. The Senator held a series of town hall meetings, toured small businesses and threw the opening pitch at a collegiate league baseball game during a weekend of travel.
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (Va.-D) told a crowd of about 40 Franklin County citizens Saturday morning that it's going to take a bipartisan effort to reduce the country's deficit and get the economy back up to speed.
Senator Warner held a series of town hall meetings, toured small businesses and threw the opening pitch at a collegiate league baseball game during a weekend of travel across southside Virginia.
After touring Solid Stone Fabrics Inc.’s plant uptown on Friday, an excited U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said it may exemplify the future of manufacturing in this area. Solid Stone Fabrics builds on this area’s generations of manufacturing, but with 21st century skills, Warner said. He added that the small company is flexible, with quick turnaround time, and is high-tech. He said it makes a value-added product with environmentally friendly processes.
In places like Southside, struggling to bring in new business, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, is focusing on ways to help drive more jobs. Warner, D-Virginia, visited Averett University on Friday afternoon to give updates on the happenings in Washington and hear concerns from residents.
Senator Warner met today with Savior Waddell, a rising fifth grader at Danville's Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, to celebrate his winning entry in an anti-smoking poster contest. Savior's entry was called "Hang Tough - Don't Puff."
Senator Warner recently hosted a strategy session in Fredericksburg to help Virginia localities learn about various funding opportunities and ideas for high-speed broadband deployment.
Senator Warner has launched a contest to pick a cover photo of Virginia for his Facebook page by asking for submissions from his more than 16,500 followers. Facebook, the popular social media tool, will be transitioning all pages to their new Timeline format on Friday, March 30. As part of the new format, all pages must include a large “cover photo.”
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama called on Congress to pass an agenda that helps start-ups and small businesses succeed. We have already introduced a plan that shares his goals. It's called the Startup Act. Research conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and others has consistently shown that companies less than five years old accounted for nearly all net job creation in our economy over the past three decades.