Senator Mark Warner News

Virginia's Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine this week offered an amendment to an environmental bill that will promote efforts to restore Four Mile Run as a recreational resource.

The Daily Press Media Group has joined a chorus of news organizations nationwide criticizing the Justice Department for a massive seizure of The Associated Press ' telephone records.

As of now, the Virginia Republican Party plans to select its candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014 much as it is picking statewide nominees this year: with a nominating convention.

From the moment Barack Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004, he has enjoyed a reputation as a politician with a claim to the high ground.

Lawmakers are pushing back against the Defense Department's plan to furlough civilian employees for 11 days through the rest of the fiscal year.

The success of any Obama administration bid to eliminate overlapping or duplicative programs may hinge on bipartisan cooperation from a turf-conscious Congress as well as clear and enduring metrics, a Senate panel was told on Thursday.

Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has inched ahead in the race to replace Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, according to a newly released Quinnipiac University poll.

Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.

A Senate bill that helps advance the construction of Hampton Roads ' next major ocean terminal, passed overwhelmingly Wednesday.

The University of Virginia Center for Politics' latest documentary, Out of Order , has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Topical Documentary.

Gov. Bob McDonnell has dipped to his the lowest job-approval rating in two years in a statewide poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, but he appears unharmed by his ties to the top executive of a troubled nutritional supplements maker who lavished gifts on McDonnell and his family.

Sen. Mark Warner said on Tuesday that he is concerned about threats from TV broadcasters to take their programming off the air as part of their battle with online video start-up Aereo.

This is possibly the strangest and most ridiculous piece yet from Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, as he gives four "pinocchios" to President Obama's completely factual claim that he almost immediately used the T word to describe the Benghazi attacks: Obama's Claim He Called Benghazi an 'Act of Terrorism' . You can read the whole thing ... (more)

A new government estimate says the budget deficit for the current year will come in well below what was projected just a few months ago.

The president of Virginia Tech announced his retirement Tuesday, satisfied he had elevated the university's reputation and acknowledging that the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history on his campus would be a part of his legacy.

A new government estimate says the budget deficit for the current year will come in well below what was projected just a few months ago.

I'm writing to ask for your help on an issue that has gotten a lot of attention recently: marriage equality.

Sen. Mark Warner is pressing his case for law schools across the country to follow a "playbook" developed at the College of William and Mary to reduce the nation's backlog of veteran disability claims.

Those "leaked" emails about Benghazi talking points first reported by the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, then picked up and trumpeted to the world by ABC News, were apparently distorted and mischaracterized to smear the State Department and the White House.

Imagine you're a red-state Democrat contemplating a run for Senate. Here's what you've seen during the opening months of President Obama's second term: A still-tepid economic recovery, a culturally polarizing agenda on immigration and guns, and fears of the health care law's possibly haphazard implementation.