Senator Warner celebrated the beginning of "the year of the snake" on Sunday at the Eden Center in Falls Church. The Senator watched the lion dance and an impressive fireworks display and participated in the flag ceremony.
Sen. Warner, a member of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, today honored two Central Intelligence Agency veterans who played key roles in the 1994 arrest and espionage conviction of CIA spy Aldrich Ames on charges of spying for the Russians. Jeanne Vertefeuille of McLean, VA served at the CIA for more than 40 years and died on Dec. 29, 2012.
Senator Warner met today with the entire NoVA congressional delegation to work on strategy to relocate the FBI Headquarters to Northern Virginia.Despite individually representing different constituencies and potential FBI relocation sites, the bipartisan delegation vowed to work together to bring the FBI to Virginia.
Virginia Representatives Jim Moran (VA-08), Frank Wolf (VA-10), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), and Rob Wittman (VA-01) and Senators Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner sent a letter to the administrator of the General Services Administration urging consideration of Northern Virginia for the new FBI Headquarters location.
Senator Warner called into three morning radio shows in Virginia today to discuss the looming fiscal cliff. He spoke with John Fredericks, whose morning show is broadcast in Norfolk, Richmond and Northern Virginia, and he also dialed-in to WRVA in Richmond and Washington’s WTOP Radio.
“Crowdfunding has the potential to not only change the way that startup businesses access capital, but to allow entrepreneurs to create and keep jobs in places like Danville or Roanoke,” Senator Warner said today in Arlington at the first of a series of events that he’s holding to help Virginia entrepreneurs better understand how crowdfunding can be a tool for business growth.
Senator Warner had a hometown town hall meeting this morning at the United Way headquarters in Alexandria. The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce hosted the town hall, and members asked questions on topics ranging from energy, education, and, obviously, deficit reduction.
Senator Warner is asking the head of the Federal Aviation Administration for a full accounting of a potentially catastrophic “near miss” incident earlier this week at Northern Virginia’s Reagan Washington Airport.
Reps. Jim Moran and Gerry Connolly and Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today applauded the Defense Department’s release of $180 million in funding for a project to widen Route 1 through Ft. Belvoir. The funding now goes to the Federal Highway Administration to begin construction on transportation improvements that will accommodate increased traffic related to BRAC 2005 relocations.
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.
