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Mark Warner
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Former Member, Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee, United States Senate
Former Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth, United States Senate
Member, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Member, Budget
Member, Finance
Member, Rules and Administration
Vice Chair, Select Committee on Intelligence
Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
Member, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
Astrological Sign:
Sagittarius
— Awards:
Priority Issues:
A New Energy Policy
Health Care
Improving Our Nation's Infrastructure
Being Competitive
The War
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes
Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Unknown Position
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should be legal in all circumstances as long as the procedure is completed within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape or when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal only when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and notification requirements as decided by each state government.
- No Answer
6. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
7. Other
- X
1. The federal government should consider preferences to minority-owned businesses in granting government contracts.
- No Answer
2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector.
- X
3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.
- X
4. The federal government should provide affirmative actions programs as long as such programs do not include quotas.
- X
5. The federal government should not provide any affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
6. Other
- X
Do you support amending the US Constitution to require an annual balanced federal budget?
- Yes
1. AIDS Programs
- Maintain Status
2. Arts funding
- Slightly Decrease
3. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
4. Environmental programs
- Maintain Status
5. Housing projects
- Maintain Status
6. Job training programs
- Maintain Status
7. Law enforcement
- No
8. Medicaid
- No
9. Medicare
- No
10. NASA
- Slightly Decrease
11. Student loan programs
- Slightly Increase
12. Welfare (AFDC)
- Slightly Decrease
13. Other
- No Answer
14. Agriculture
- No
15. Education
- No
16. Farm subsidies
- No
17. Food stamps
- No
18. School lunches
- No
19. Welfare
- Yes
20. Subsidies for low cost timber sales.
- Subsidies for hardrock mining on federal lands.
1. Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
- X
2. Establish spending limits on congressional campaigns and provide public funding for complying candidates.
- No Answer
3. Support legislation that would increase the federal limits on individual contributions.
- No Answer
4. Pass legislation that would encourage full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information.
- X
5. Remove all legislative limits on campaign financing.
- No Answer
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Broaden use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- X
2. Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
- No Answer
3. Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
- X
4. Support the use of "boot camps" as alternative sentencing for adult first-time felons.
- X
5. Limit the number of appeals allowed to inmates on death row.
- No Answer
6. Fund programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- No Answer
7. Expand funding for community policing programs.
- X
8. Increase penalties for the possession of any illegal firearms.
- X
9. Prosecute youths accused of murder as adults.
- X
10. Increase funding for local Boys & Girls Clubs and other independent organizations in communities with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
11. Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
- No Answer
12. Deport all permanent resident aliens convicted of a felony.
- No Answer
13. Other
- X
1. CIA appropriations
- Maintain Status
2. Defense plant conversion
- Maintain Status
3. Military hardware
- Slightly Increase
4. Military space shuttle missions
- Slightly Decrease
5. Pay for active duty personnel
- Slightly Increase
6. Development of new weapons
- Slightly Increase
7. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
- Maintain Status
8. Armed Forces personnel training
- Maintain Status
9. Other
- Maintain Status
1. Do you support amending the United States Constitution to allow voluntary prayer and/or moment of silence in public schools?
- No
2. Do you support funding the National Service Program (Ameri-Corps) in which young people receive money from the federal government for college in return for performing community service?
- Yes
1. Maintain the national standards and goals set forth in "Goals 2000".
- No Answer
2. Provide parents with vouchers to send their children to any publicly funded school.
- X
3. Provide parents with vouchers to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
- No Answer
4. Implement charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
- No Answer
5. Eliminate the Department of Education, thereby giving state and local government greater control over educational issues.
- No Answer
6. Other
- X
1. Transfer public lands, such as federal forests and range lands, to the jurisdiction of state and local governments.
- No Answer
2. Require the federal government to reimburse citizens when environmental regulations limit use of privately owned lands.
- No Answer
3. Strengthen the Clean Water Act.
- X
4. Change the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to limit the number of habitats eligible to be designated as endangered.
- No Answer
5. Utilize cost-benefit analysis to determine economic impacts of proposed environmental protection and cleanup legislation.
- X
6. Increase fees charged to ranchers who graze cattle on federal lands.
- X
7. Revise the 1872 mining law to increase the amounts charged to mining companies using federal lands.
- X
8. Encourage development of alternative fuels and electric cars to reduce pollution.
- X
9. Strengthen emission controls on all gasoline or diesel powered engines, including cars and trucks.
- No Answer
10. Increase federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuels to promote conservation and alternative fuel development.
- No Answer
11. Require that a percentage of purchases made by federal agencies include recycled components.
- X
12. Promote the selling of pollution credits to encourage industries to decrease amount of pollution.
- X
13. Other
- No Answer
1. Border security
- Federal
2. Civil rights enforcement
- Federal
3. Education
- Local
4. Environmental cleanup
- State
5. Job training
- State
6. Law enforcement
- Local
7. Low-income housing
- Local
8. Medicaid
- State
9. Medicare
- Federal
10. Welfare (AFDC)
- State
11. Other
- No Answer
1. Should the US have diplomatic relations with the government of Cuba?
- No
2. Should the US have diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam?
- Undecided
3. Should the US recognize and extend full diplomatic relations to Taiwan?
- No
4. Should the US continue funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty?
- Yes
5. Should the US continue funding for Radio Marti and TV Marti?
- Yes
6. Should the US continue funding for Radio Free Asia?
- Yes
7. Do you support the deployment of US troops to the former Yugoslavia?
- Yes
1. Economic aid to Russia and the former republics should be increased to facilitate democracy and market reforms.
- No Answer
2. Economic aid to Russia and the former republics should be continued unless Russia exports nuclear weapons or related technology.
- X
3. Economic aid to Russia and the former republics should be decreased and/or eliminated.
- No Answer
4. Other
- No Answer
5. Foreign aid should only be given when extraordinary circumstances and disaster threaten the lives of civilian populations.
- No Answer
6. Foreign aid should be given to countries only when it is in the security interests of the United States.
- X
7. Foreign aid should be eliminated from any nation with documented human rights abuses.
- No Answer
8. Foreign aid should be maintained at current levels.
- No Answer
9. The US should contribute more funding and troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions.
- No Answer
10. The US should participate in UN peacekeeping missions only when vital US interests are directly threatened.
- X
11. The US should use military force only when the US border or territories are attacked or American citizens are in danger.
- No Answer
12. The US should pay the money it owes to the United Nations.
- No Answer
13. The US should withdraw from the UN completely.
- No Answer
1. Expand the nationwide ban on the sale or transfer of assault weapons to include all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
- No Answer
2. Increase restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.
- No Answer
3. Maintain all federal registration procedures and restrictions on possessing firearms.
- No Answer
4. Ease procedures on the purchase and registration of firearms.
- No Answer
5. Repeal all bans and measures that restrict law-abiding citizens from owning legally-obtained firearms.
- No Answer
6. Allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms that are legally owned and registered.
- No Answer
7. Other
- X
1. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
- No Answer
2. Provide vouchers to the working poor so they can buy into a private health care plan.
- No Answer
3. Implement a government-financed, single-payer national health care system similar to that of Canada.
- No Answer
4. Support a "managed competition" health care plan to contain costs and improve access that does not include mandated health alliances, government cost control powers, or employer/employee mandates.
- No Answer
5. Provide tax incentives for small businesses to help provide health care to their employees.
- X
6. Allow middle and low income families to deduct yearly health care costs from their taxable income.
- X
7. Establish limits on the amount of damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
8. Encourage tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if used for any purpose other than medical costs.
- No Answer
9. The federal government has no responsibility in providing health care.
- No Answer
10. Other
- X
1. Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
- X
2. Impose mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- X
3. Impose capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
- X
4. Require drug testing for federal employees in sensitive positions (Air Traffic Control, National Park Police, Secret Service, etc.).
- X
5. Strengthen current laws dealing with non-controlled substances, including inhalants and commercially available pills.
- X
6. Increase funding of federally-sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
- No Answer
7. Decriminalize the possession and private use of marijuana.
- No Answer
8. Other
- No Answer
1. Further limit the number of immigrants allowed into the country.
- No Answer
2. Prohibit states from passing laws that deny human services (medical care, education) to illegal immigrants or their children.
- No Answer
3. Ease citizenship requirements in order to make it easier for immigrants to become United States citizens.
- No Answer
4. Establish English as the official and recognized language of the United States.
- No Answer
5. Provide extra federal aid to states with higher numbers of immigrants for necessary medical and social services.
- No Answer
6. Restrict the eligibility of legal immigrants for certain social programs (i.e. AFDC, HUD housing, food stamps, etc.).
- X
7. Children of illegal immigrants, born in the United States, should not automatically receive US citizenship.
- No Answer
8. Other
- X
Should the President be allowed to veto certain items of legislation while signing spending or tax bills into law?
- Yes
1. Provide tax incentives for companies to hire and train homeless people who want to work.
- X
2. Increase funding of homeless shelters and low income housing projects.
- No Answer
3. Increase funding of programs that help alcoholics and drug addicts recover and find steady work.
- No Answer
4. Increase the minimum wage.
- X
5. Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.
- X
6. Provide government jobs for those who wish to work and cannot find a job in the private sector.
- No Answer
7. Increase the income tax deduction on individual contributions made to charities that help the poor and homeless.
- No Answer
8. Implement enterprise zones in communities with high unemployment.
- X
9. Other
- X
1. Retiree income over $40,000
- Maintain Status
2. Family income less than $25,000
- Maintain Status
3. Family income $25-75,000
- Maintain Status
4. Family income $75-150,000
- Maintain Status
5. Family income over $150,000
- Maintain Status
6. Alcohol Taxes
- Maintain Status
7. Capital Gains Taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Charitable deductions
- Maintain Status
9. Cigarette Taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Corporate income taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Earned Income Tax Credit
- Slightly Increase
12. Estate taxes
- Maintain Status
13. Medical expense deductions
- Slightly Increase
14. Mortgage deductions
- Maintain Status
15. Other
- Slightly Decrease
16. Do you support replacing the US income tax structure with a flat income tax?
- No
17. Do you support replacing the US income tax structure with a broad-based consumption tax?
- No
1. Do you support amending the Constitution to limit the number of terms which members of Congress can serve?
- No Answer
1. Senator (years)
- No Answer
2. Representatives (years)
- No Answer
1. Relax current guidelines that forbid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from investigating terrorist groups when there is a "reasonable indication" of terrorist activities.
- X
2. Relax wiretapping restrictions to give the FBI broader authority to investigate terrorist suspects.
- X
3. Require that chemical tracing agents be added to commercially-sold products that can be used to produce explosives.
- X
4. Implement tighter restrictions on firearm sales in an effort to hinder terrorist groups from stockpiling weapon arsenals.
- No Answer
5. Grant broader authority to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to deny entrance visas to terrorist suspects.
- X
6. Maintain limits on the authority of federal agencies investigating suspected terrorists.
- No Answer
7. Restrict the investigative authority of the FBI and other governmental agencies.
- No Answer
8. Other
- No Answer
1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- Yes
2. Do you support broadening NAFTA to include other countries?
- Yes
3. Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
- Yes
4. Do you support the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
- Yes
5. Do you support lifting the trade embargo imposed against Cuba?
- No
6. Do you support imposing tariffs on products imported from nations that maintain restrictive trade barriers on American products?
- Yes
7. Should a nation's human rights record affect its "most favored nation" trading status with the United States?
- Yes
1. Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating industries into areas with high unemployment.
- X
2. Increase funding for national job-training programs.
- No Answer
3. Increase funding for public works projects such as the repair of roads and bridges.
- No Answer
4. Eliminate government regulations of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
5. Establish enterprise zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed people.
- X
6. Overhaul the current unemployment system by focusing on training and education in skills needed in certain industries.
- X
7. Eliminate any governmental programs designed to reduce unemployment.
- No Answer
8. Other
- X
1. Strengthen child support collection procedures and increase penalties for parents who do not pay child support.
- X
2. Impose a two-year limit on welfare benefits for recipients who are able to work.
- X
3. Require welfare recipients to accept some form of government-sponsored job after two years if unemployed in the private sector.
- X
4. Require that unwed teenage mothers live with a parent or guardian (if possible) and attend school to receive benefits.
- X
5. Limit the benefits given to single women if they have additional children while receiving welfare benefits.
- No Answer
6. Provide child care services to welfare recipients who work or attend school.
- X
7. Provide rent or housing supplement vouchers for low-income families.
- X
8. Make no substantial changes at this time.
- No Answer
9. Increase funding of programs that prevent teen pregnancy and family break-up.
- No Answer
10. Support programs that give incentives for employers to hire and train welfare recipients.
- X
11. Other
- No Answer
Should your priorities require additional government funding, please explain how you intend to obtain the additional funding.
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants?
- Yes
Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
- No
1. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act?
- No
1. Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Unknown Position
Do you support same-sex marriage?
- Yes
1. Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict?
- Yes
Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?
- Unknown Position
Latest Action: 06/24/2019 Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Latest Action: Senate - 06/20/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Tracker:Latest Action: Senate - 06/19/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Tracker:By Mark Warner Even before the coronavirus outbreak began, a storm was brewing in our health care system. Under the Trump administration, the number of uninsured Americans has steadily increased from the record lows seen following the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to the administration's efforts to undermine the health care law, combined with political resistance to Medicaid expansion in many states, the uninsured rate climbed up and up. According to new data from the CDC, nearly 31 million Americans lacked health insurance on the eve of the pandemic. Then the coronavirus hit. Of the more than 40 million Americans out of work due to the pandemic, an estimated 27 million have also lost their health insurance. Today we face record rates of Americans lacking health insurance precisely when demands on our health care system are greatest. The consequences of this policy failure will be severe, and the damage will not just be felt by those uninsured Americans who contract coronavirus. This will hit state budgets, cash-strapped hospitals and American families -- who will likely see the financial strain on our system reflected in higher insurance premiums. Unfortunately, this is not even the worst-case scenario. Having failed twice to overturn the Affordable Care Act in Congress, the Trump administration is currently leading a lawsuit that would overturn the health care law in its entirety with no plan for replacement. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case this fall, precisely when public health experts warn we could face a second wave of COVID cases. If successful, the Trump administration lawsuit would dismantle health coverage for millions of Americans and protections for the millions more who have a pre-existing condition. To be clear, this legal challenge to the health coverage and protections that millions of Americans rely on represents the entirety of the Trump administration's plan to address the health coverage crisis we now face. The administration should immediately withdraw this lawsuit that threatens to disrupt our entire health care system in the middle of a pandemic. But merely avoiding this impending disaster is not nearly enough. We need to dramatically and quickly expand coverage for those Americans out of work due to the coronavirus, as well as for those Americans who lacked insurance before the crisis began. First, we must expand and strengthen Medicaid. More than 380,000 Virginians have already gained affordable coverage through our expansion of Medicaid. As unemployment increases, states will see a further influx of individuals eligible for Medicaid coverage. Congress should provide states with additional funding, tied to unemployment rates, to help address this influx. In addition, we should pass legislation I've introduced called the SAME Act, which would make sure states such as Virginia that were late to expand Medicaid get their fair share of federal funding. Second, Congress should help workers who have lost their employer-provided insurance regain that coverage through the COBRA program. To offset the high cost of paying for an employer-sponsored plan without employer support, the federal government should temporarily help cover the costs until it is safe for workers to return to work. Third, the Trump administration must re-open the Affordable Care Act health care exchanges so uninsured individuals can immediately enroll in health care coverage. Congress should also enhance tax credits to help more Americans afford this marketplace coverage. These are three ideas that can and should be enacted in the next round of coronavirus relief legislation. While the legislative solutions I've described are not a cure-all to structural problems in our health care system, they would quickly help millions of Americans regain coverage during this critical moment. With unemployment and uninsured rates at record highs, the combined economic and health care crisis we face cannot be ignored. The solutions I've described would allow us to get millions of Americans covered as quickly as possible, using the tools that are already available. We should implement them before it is too late.
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