November 15, 2010

Day Three: Hampton Roads and the Peninsula

On Veterans’ Day, Senator Warner began the second leg of our week of traveling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The Senator attended a MissionServe.org service project that involved 100 military families, veterans, civilians, and students creating 400 care packages and writing letters together to support military families of deployed servicemembers. 

 

The Senator also received the Second Annual Mission Serve Award for Excellence in Military and Civilian Service for his dedication to service and our communities. Ross Cohen, an Afghanistan veteran and director of the Mission Serve initiative, presented the award.

“Veterans and their families are not charity cases - they want to give back and continue to serve when they come home,” Cohen said. “And no one understands that better than Senator Mark Warner.”

The Senator then travelled to Williamsburg, to celebrate the naming of the Lewis Puller Veteran's Benefits Clinic Naming Ceremony. The Clinic is one of only a handful in the country that focuses on joining in the fight to secure veterans their benefits. 

The Clinic was named after late Marine officer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lewis B. Puller Jr, whose wife, State Senator Toddy Puller, attended the naming ceremony as well. 

In a short speech during the ceremony, Senator Warner said:

“One of the things that's so great about Virginia is that we don’t just honor our veterans on Veterans’ Day, we honor them every single day. Working to help veterans get their benefits is just one example.” 

After the ceremony, the Senator made a quick stop at the NASA Langley Research Center to visit the Virginia-based engineering team that assisted with the extraction of the trapped Chilean miners on October 13.  The Senator presented the team with a flag flown over the Capitol Building and asked the engineers’ children if they thought what their parents had done was “cool.”

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“You can turn on TV and not see much good news,” Senator Warner said, “But the whole world stopped to watch this. This is a real reminder of the American can-do spirit.” 

Finally, the Senator met with members of the NASA Aeronautics Support Team, elected officials and community leaders at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton.  The participants discussed opportunities to create public and private investment in moving the ball forward on aeronautics and green aviation.

More on Day Four of the trip to come soon.



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    Day One in the Shenandoah Valley
    Senator Warner began two days of travel in the Shenandoah Valley by honoring veterans at a lunch at the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.
  • 11/09/10 -
    Day Two in the Shenandoah Valley
    Our second day of travel in the Shenandoah Valley began in Hot Springs, where Senator Warner delivered the keynote address for the Virginia Association of Counties annual conference. Senator Warner praised the hundreds of local elected officials for their continued hard work before taking questions from the crowd.
  • 11/15/10 -
    Current record
  • 11/16/10 -
    Senator Warner's op-ed in the Financial Times
    Senator Warner has proposed a compromise on the Bush tax cuts that is drawing attention from members of both parties.
  • 11/18/10 -
    Day Four on the Peninsula and in Hampton Roads
    Senator Warner began the fourth and final day of our trip last Friday at a breakfast meeting of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce in Newport News, where he discussed his compromise proposal on the Dec. 31st expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts
  • 11/19/10 -
    Senator Warner to co-chair bipartisan India Caucus
    Yesterday, Senator Warner announced that he will join Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) as a co-chair of the Senate India Caucus in January. Senator Warner will take the place of Senator Chris Dodd, who is retiring at the end of the year.
  • 11/23/10 -
    VA congressional delegation, Governor, meet with Pentagon about JFCOM
    Virginia’s governor, Sen. Warner and other members of the congressional delegation met for more than an one hour today with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and afterwards the Virginians were cautiously optimistic about preserving significant pieces of Joint Forces Command in Hampton Roads.
  • 11/29/10 -
    Our first annual Virginia Women's Conference
    Senator Warner hosted our first Virginia Women’s Conference on Nov. 22 in Richmond with the theme A Financial Roadmap for Smart Money Decisions. AARP, Dominion, and Genworth Financial co-sponsored the conference.
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