68 Facts About Senator Mark Warner

Senator Mark Warner is a member of the Democratic Party, vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Senator Mark Warner is the honorary chairman of the Forward Together PAC.

Senator Mark Warner delivered the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Apart from politics, Senator Mark Warner is known for his involvement in telecommunications-related venture capital during the 1980s; he founded the firm Columbia Capital.

In 2006, Warner was widely expected to pursue the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U S presidential election, but he announced in October 2006 that he would not run, citing a desire not to disrupt his family life.

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Senator Mark Warner was reelected in 2014, narrowly defeating Ed Gillespie, and in 2020 defeating Republican nominee Daniel Gade by twelve percentage points.

Senator Mark Warner grew up in Illinois, and later in Vernon, Connecticut, where he graduated from Rockville High School, a public secondary school.

Senator Mark Warner graduated from George Washington University, earning his Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1977.

Senator Mark Warner was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated as the valedictorian of his class with a 4.

Senator Mark Warner was the first in his family to graduate from college.

Senator Mark Warner went on to serve as Dodd's senatorial campaign manager during his freshman year of law school.

Senator Mark Warner then graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1980 and coached the law school's first intramural women's basketball team.

Senator Mark Warner then took a job raising money for the Democratic Party based in Atlanta from 1980 to 1982.

Senator Mark Warner attempted to found two unsuccessful businesses before becoming a general contractor for cellular businesses and investors.

Senator Mark Warner co-founded Capital Cellular Corporation, and built up an estimated net worth of more than $200 million.

Senator Mark Warner involved himself in public efforts related to health care, transportation, telecommunications, information technology and education.

Senator Mark Warner managed Douglas Wilder's successful 1989 gubernatorial campaign and served as chairman of the state Democratic Party from 1993 to 1995.

Senator Mark Warner unsuccessfully ran for the U S Senate in 1996 against incumbent Republican John Warner in a "Warner versus Warner" election.

Mark Warner performed strongly in the state's rural areas, making the contest much closer than many pundits expected.

In 2001 Senator Mark Warner campaigned for governor as a moderate Democrat after years of slowly building up a power base in rural Virginia, particularly Southwest Virginia.

Senator Mark Warner's opponents were Republican Mark Earley, the state's attorney general, and the Libertarian candidate William B Redpath.

Senator Mark Warner had a significant funding advantage, spending $20 million compared with Earley's $10 million.

Senator Mark Warner campaigned in favor of two regional sales tax increases to fund transportation.

In 2004, Senator Mark Warner worked with Democratic and moderate Republican legislators and the business community to reform the tax code, lowering food and some income taxes while increasing the sales and cigarette taxes.

Senator Mark Warner entered into an agreement with Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Virginia Senate to cap state car tax reimbursements to local governments.

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Senator Mark Warner wanted the conference, which already included the University of Virginia, to add Virginia Tech instead — and he got his way.

Senator Mark Warner chaired the Southern Governors' Association and was a member of the Democratic Governors Association.

Senator Mark Warner had supported and campaigned for Kaine, and many national pundits considered Kaine's victory to be further evidence of Senator Mark Warner's political clout in Virginia.

Senator Mark Warner arranged for DNA tests of evidence left from the case of Roger Keith Coleman, who was put to death by the state in 1992.

Senator Mark Warner was believed to be preparing to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and had "done everything but announce his candidacy" before suddenly stating in October 2006 he would not run for president, citing family reasons.

John Senator Mark Warner endorsed him, which was seen as a factor of his win by over 30 points.

Senator Mark Warner held a wide lead over his Republican opponent, fellow former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, for virtually the entire campaign.

Senator Mark Warner delivered the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

In 2014, Warner faced Ed Gillespie, who had previously served as Counselor to the President under George W Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee.

In 2020, Warner faced college professor and U S Army veteran Daniel Gade.

Senator Mark Warner was later named to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2011.

In 2009, Senator Mark Warner voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus bill.

When offered the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in preparation for the 2012 election cycle, Warner declined because he wanted to keep a distance from the partisanship of the role.

Senator Mark Warner has been identified as a radical centrist, working to foster compromise in the Senate.

Senator Mark Warner voted for the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, helping the Senate reach the required sixty votes to prevent it from going to a filibuster.

In January 2019, Warner was one of six Democratic senators to introduce the American Miners Act of 2019, a bill that would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to swap funds in excess of the amounts needed to meet existing obligations under the Abandoned Mine Land fund to the 1974 Pension Plan as part of an effort to prevent its insolvency as a result of coal company bankruptcies and the 2008 financial crisis.

In September 2019, amid discussions to prevent a government shutdown, Warner was one of six Democratic senators to sign a letter to congressional leadership advocating for the passage of legislation that would permanently fund health care and pension benefits for retired coal miners as "families in Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Colorado, North Dakota and New Mexico" would start to receive notifications of health care termination by the end of the following month.

In 2010, Senator Mark Warner worked with a Republican colleague on the Banking Committee, Bob Corker, to write a key portion of the Dodd-Frank Act that seeks to end taxpayer bailouts of failing Wall Street financial firms by requiring "advance funeral plans" for large financial firms.

In 2018, Senator Mark Warner became one of the few Democrats in the Senate supporting a bill that would relax "key banking regulations".

Senator Mark Warner was the original Democratic sponsor of the Startup Act legislation and has partnered with the bill's original author, Jerry Moran, to introduce three iterations of the bill: Startup Act in 2011, Startup Act 2.

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Senator Mark Warner has called the legislation the "logical next step" after enactment of the JOBS Act.

In June 2017, Senator Mark Warner voted to support Trump's $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

In September 2016, in advance of UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Senator Mark Warner signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging President Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel.

In July 2017, Senator Mark Warner voted for the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which grouped together sanctions against Iran, Russia and North Korea.

In December 2018, Warner called Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei a threat to U S national security.

In July 2019, Warner was a cosponsor of the Defending America's 5G Future Act, a bill that would prevent Huawei from being removed from the Commerce Department's "entity list" without an act of Congress and authorize Congress to block administration waivers for U S companies to do business with Huawei.

In 2011, Senator Mark Warner voted for the four-year extension of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Also in 2012, Senator Mark Warner pushed the Office of Personnel Management to address chronic backlogs in processing retirement benefits for federal workers, many of whom live in Washington's northern Virginia suburbs.

Senator Mark Warner succeeded in pushing the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand access to PTSD treatment for female military veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Between 2010 and 2013, Senator Mark Warner invested considerable time and effort in leading the Senate's Gang of Six, along with Saxby Chambliss.

Chambliss and Warner sought to craft a bipartisan plan along the lines of the Simpson-Bowles Commission to address U S deficits and debt.

Senator Mark Warner voted against the 2013 Assault Weapons Ban, but changed his position in a 2018 op-ed and has co-sponsored similar efforts since then.

In 2017, Senator Mark Warner called himself a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and vowed to advocate for responsible gun ownership for hunting, recreation, and self-defense.

In January 2019, Warner was one of 40 senators to introduce the Background Check Expansion Act, a bill that would require background checks for either the sale or transfer of all firearms including all unlicensed sellers.

Senator Mark Warner's announcement came shortly after Senator Claire McCaskill announced her support for it.

Senator Mark Warner was a lead sponsor of the 2010 Government Performance and Results Act, which imposed specific program performance goals across all federal agencies and set up a more transparent agency performance review process.

Senator Mark Warner expressed a willingness to negotiate with Republicans about some of the provisions of the bill, such as the timeline for the phase-in.

BlackRock had never contributed until Senator Mark Warner bought shares in the BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund in 2011.

Senator Mark Warner spent two months in the hospital recovering from the illness.

Senator Mark Warner is involved in farming and winemaking at his Rappahannock Bend farm.

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Senator Mark Warner has an estimated net worth of $257 million as of 2014.

Senator Mark Warner is not related to John Warner, his predecessor in the Senate.

Mark Warner has been awarded several honorary degrees, these include:.