Warner Yearly Wrap

Happy Holidays from the Warner press office! While disorder in the House of Representatives continued to stymie progress in Congress… right up until the very final days of the year… Sen. Warner still fought to get wins for Virginians every way he could. As the year concluded, he got $3.7 billion to help Southwest Virginians recover from Helene, adding to a year filled with accomplishments for manufacturing jobs, economic development wins, and more.

The accomplishments of previous Congresses – like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS, and infrastructure law – continued to pay dividends, bringing home major investments in every corner of Virginia. Among other priorities, Sen. Warner also enjoyed meeting with constituents in every region of Virginia, safeguarding national security on the Intelligence Committee, and turbocharging domestic energy production to lower costs for all.

Read all about it in your Warner YEARLY Wrap-up:

EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, SAVING VIRGINIANS MONEY, AND SUPPORTING HELENE RELIEF

• HELPING HELENE VICTIMS: After Hurricane Helene unleashed severe flooding and profound damage across Southwest Virginia, Sen. Warner visited with victims and spent months pushing for action to support long-term recovery efforts. In an end-of-year funding bill, he secured $3.7 billion in disaster assistance funding for Virginia. That includes:
  • $660 million to rebuild the Virginia Creeper Trail. Securing this federal funding is essential for the recovery of the Creeper Trail, the town of Damascus, and the entire region. In the aftermath of the flooding, Sen. Warner visited Damascus and has never stopped advocating for its residents – including in a nationwide televised interview, a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and constant communication with local and statewide partners and stakeholders.
  • Refilling SBA’s disaster loan assistance fund – On October 15, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced it had exhausted the fund that provides loans to small businesses impacted by natural disasters. In Virginia, 129 businesses have approved loan applications totaling over $6.5 million, but their owners are still awaiting funding due to the lapse. This law reauthorizes $2.3 billion to pay out these loans for Virginians and other small business owners across the country.
  • $260.1 million in funding to support emergency repairs to roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure in Southwest Virginia.
  • $193 million in agriculture disaster assistance and additional economic assistance for producers in Southwest Virginia.
  • $125.1 million to repair damages at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. This funding will also be used to relocate buildings outside the flood zone to avoid further damages during future flooding events.
  • In total, the law contains $2.3 billion for the National Park Service, including $1.7 billion for the Blue Ridge Parkway, and $6.4 billion for the U.S. Forest Service, which will be available for additional needs in Virginia. This follows Sen. Warner’s express advocacy for significant funding for public lands in the final package.
• WON A TAXING VICTORY: Prior to the year-end package, Sen. Warner successfully advocated to ensure that victims of natural disasters in Southwest Virginia could fully deduct qualified disaster casualty losses that exceed $500 on their taxes. This means Virginians impacted by Hurricane Helene will see larger tax returns during the upcoming tax season.
• MAJOR MANUFACTURING MONEY: In 2022, Sen. Warner fought to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark piece of legislation that lowered prescription drug prices, secured long-term benefits for miners, and made significant investments in fighting climate change by creating green energy jobs. Thanks to this legislation, Sen. Warner announced numerous significant wins for Virginia.
  • Microporous announced they will invest $1.35 billion to establish a new manufacturing facility in Pittsylvania County to produce lithium-ion battery separators. This project is expected to create 2,015 new jobs and was made possible because of a $100 million award from the IRA and direct advocacy from Sen. Warner.
  • LS GreenLink announced they would invest $681 million in Chesapeake to build a manufacturing facility for subsea cables used in offshore wind farms, creating hundreds of jobs in Hampton Roads. This investment was made possible thanks to a $99 million tax incentive from the IRA and direct advocacy for the project by Sen. Warner.
  • Topsoe announced they will invest $400 million in a new Chesterfield County facility that supports clean hydrogen energy production, creating at least 150 new jobs. This investment was made possible because of a $135 million award from the IRA and direct advocacy for the project from Sen. Warner.
  • Sen. Warner secured $208 million from the IRA to upgrade Volvo facilities in Dublin, VA and two other states to support production of heavy-duty electric vehicles. In September, Sen. Warner visited the Dublin facility to celebrate these investments and test drive an electric truck. This funding will help Volvo Group sustain the 7,900 existing union jobs in the U.S. while creating 295 new jobs.
• MAKING IT RAIN FOR MANASSAS: In 2022, Sen. Warner led passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, landmark legislation to support America’s economic and national security by onshoring the manufacturing of semiconductors. In December, he announced that thanks to this law, Micron had reached a preliminary agreement with the Department of Commerce to receive $275 million to modernize and expand their manufacturing facility in Manassas. This project will create over 400 manufacturing jobs and up to 2,700 community jobs at the peak of the project.
• CRANE-Y MY NECK: After Sen. Warner led members of the Virginia delegation to support funding for the Craney Island Eastward Expansion Project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allocated $46 million for the project, made possible because of the March 2024 government spending laws that Sen. Warner helped pass. Craney Island is an essential engine for Hampton Roads’ economy, and the full project will contribute billions to the local economy, as well as 1,100 construction jobs and more than 54,000 sustainable jobs after construction.
• SOMETHING BORROWED: In 2022, Sen. Warner passed a law to allow Americans trapped in joint consolidated loans (a now-defunct way to merge your student loans with a spouse, which left many trapped with absentee or abusive spouses or rendered ineligible for public service loan forgiveness) to sever these loans. While the Department of Education delayed implementation, Sen. Warner pushed for action and successfully compelled them to release an application for borrowers to sever these loans. This is a massive win for thousands of borrowers that have been left waiting.
• BRINGING HOME THE (TURKEY) BACON: After Sen. Warner pushed directly on trade representatives, India dropped their prohibitively high tariffs on importing American turkey. This fall, Virginia turkey producers started shipping their products over to India for the first time, opening up a huge market and providing a big win for Virginia farmers.
• STANDING UP FOR CIVIL SERVANTS: In 2023, Sen. Warner introduced legislation and pushed directly on the Office of Personnel Management to take more steps to safeguard federal workers. In response, OPM finalized a rule this year that would protect a career federal employee’s civil service protections in the event a future president moves them from the competitive service to the excepted service. The rule also narrows the pool of “policy-related” jobs that can be moved out of the civil service to noncareer political appointees.
• MY H-2BESTIE: H-2B visas are an essential part of the workforce for the seafood industry in Virginia, so Sen. Warner pushed directly on the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor to release the maximum number of Congressionally-authorized H-2B visas for 2025. Following that advocacy, DHS and DOL announced the expected release of an additional 64,716 temporary nonagricultural worker visas in 2025, giving Virginia businesses more breathing room to hire enough employees.
• WHY DOES LOVE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE A BATTLEGROUND?: Sen. Warner passed his American Battlefield Protection Program Enhancement Act of 2024, legislation that expands what sites qualify for federal money for battleground restoration grants. Sen. Warner also got a law done to designate the General George C. Marshall House in Leesburg, known as Dodona Manor, as an affiliated area under the National Park Service (NPS). These laws will help more communities in Virginia access federal money to preserve history and promote tourism.

PROMOTING JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

• JUSTICE FOR BIJAN: Virginian Bijan Ghaisar was killed after an encounter with U.S. Park Police in 2017, and following his tragic death, his family received very little transparency or information into the conduct of the officers. Sen. Warner successfully pushed for an investigation, which was released in November.
• ACTION FOR ASHANTI: After the 2018 passage of Sen. Warner’s legislation to create a nationwide network to help find missing adults, the Department of Justice published a website that strengthens and compiles resources for families and local law enforcement. Sen. Warner also successfully pushed to fully fund implementation of the Ashanti Alert Act this year.
• JUSTICE FOR THE WRONGLY CONVICTED: Sen. Warner pushed for additional federal funding to help overturn and prevent wrongful convictions, which resulted in a funding bill that included $44.5 million for these programs.
• JAS-WIN FOR JASMINE: Sen. Warner recommended Virginian Jasmine Yoon to President Biden for a lifetime appointment as a U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia. Yoon was confirmed in a bipartisan vote in March and made history as the first Asian-American jurist on the federal bench for Virginia.
• HALTING HAZING: Congress passed the Stop Campus Hazing Act to improve reporting and prevention resources to curb hazing on college campuses. Sen. Warner has been actively pushing for action since 2021, when he met with the family of Adam Oakes, a young man who died as a result of hazing at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• FENDING OFF FENTANYL: The Warner-sponsored FEND Off Fentanyl Act, critical legislation to stem the flow of fentanyl into the country by directly countering the efforts of drug trafficking cartels, was signed into law by President Biden in April.

MAKING VIRGINIANS HEALTHIER

• ENDING ALZHEIMER’S: Sen. Warner is a Senate leader on the fight against Alzheimer’s, and this year President Biden signed two of his signature laws to promote research, funding, and services for those with Alzheimer’s: the NAPA Reauthorization Act and the Alzheimer’s Accountability and Investment Act.
  • Additionally, President Biden is also expected to soon sign the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Reauthorization Act of 2024, a Warner-sponsored measure to help institute public health interventions through state, local, and tribal health departments.
  • But that’s not all! Sen. Warner also successfully led a push to authorize an additional $100 million for Alzheimer’s research at NIH, which was passed as part of the March 2024 government funding bill.
• LOWERING COSTS FOR SENIORS: In the end-of-year package, Congress extended provisions from Sen. Warner’s Helping Seniors Lower Their Health Care Costs Act, which funds outreach to low-income seniors to help them enroll in cost-cutting Medicare programs.
• CUTTING COSTS FOR RURAL HEALTH CARE: Additionally, in the end-of-year package, Congress extended Medicare programs that increase payments to underserved hospitals and critical payments for ground ambulance services, which burden many rural hospitals.
• CUTTING RED TAPE: Sen. Warner led the passage of two bills that will ease burdensome requirements for employers trying to comply with bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy Affordable Care Act requirements. This makes it easier for employers to offer their employees good insurance options without massive headaches.
• TALKING ABOUT TELEHEALTH: Sen. Warner, a leader on telehealth expansion since his time as Governor, successfully pushed to extend COVID-era telehealth flexibilities while the federal government determines a final posture for long-term policy.
• OH DEA-R:Sen. Warner, a strong advocate for telehealth and teleprescription flexibilities, led a letter to President Biden expressing serious concerns about reports that a new teleprescribing rule from the Drug Enforcement Agency would significantly impede patients’ ability to access their medications. Shortly after he sent it, DEA agreed to keep current flexibilities in place until a more reasonable rule could be finalized.
• LOCKING DOWN YOUR DATA:After advocacy from Sen. Warner, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that would tighten federal privacy protections for patients’ reproductive health care information, which will make it harder to prosecute women because of their private medical situations.
• THE PLANS ARE (IV) FLUID:After Hurricane Helene knocked out a plant in North Carolina that produces about 60% of the nation’s IV fluids, Sen. Warner sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, urging continued action to mitigate the shortage and provide as much flexibility to health care providers as possible. As a result, HHS announced it was airlifting in IV fluids from other nations to limit interruptions to quality care.
• PUTTING A STOP TO PARKINSON’S:Following the diagnosis of Rep. Jennifer Wexton with a rare form of advanced Parkinson’s Disease, President Biden signed into law a Warner-sponsored bill in her honor to strengthen our national plan to cure Parkinson’s and related conditions. The bill is modeled after the National Alzheimer’s Project, which Sen. Warner also leads advocacy on.
• PROTECTING MINERS:Last year, Sen. Warner pushed the federal government to finally stop the delay and release clearer guidelines on limiting exposure to silica dust, a compound increases the likelihood of black lung disease and other illnesses in coal miners. In April, the U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration listened and finalized a rule to reduce miners’ exposure to silica dust.
• ENDING CHILDHOOD CANCER: Sen. Warner’s legislation to reauthorize federal funding for the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First) passed Congress. Sen. Warner has been championing this program, named for a Loudoun County child who died because of a brain tumor, for almost a decade.
• FIGHTING FOR FAMILIES:Following Sen. Warner’s strong advocacy cosponsoring the Right to IVF Act and directly pushing the federal Office of Personnel Management to cover IVF services for more families, OPM announced federal employee health insurance plans will have expanded access to IVF starting in 2025, allowing more families to have access to essential fertility care.

FOR OUR SERVICEMEMBERS AND VETERANS

• IMPROVING HOUSING: For years, Sen. Warner has been a tireless advocate for improving military housing. He strongly supported this year’s annual defense bill, which made a number of critical investments in housing programs, including by authorizing $177 million in military construction design funds to accelerate replacement of poor and failing barracks and providing better recourse for servicemembers facing maintenance issues in barracks.
• GIVING SERVICEMEMBERS MORE BREATHING ROOM: Sen. Warner also strongly supported a few policies that will promote financial security for servicemembers. This includes a 14.5% pay increase for junior enlisted servicemembers and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other servicemembers; broadening eligibility for the Basic Needs Allowance (BNA) – a supplemental monthly payment for qualifying service members on active duty; and requiring the Secretary of Defense to develop a policy for the military services to provide free internet to those living in barracks.
• SUPPORTING MILITARY KIDS: Everywhere Sen. Warner goes in the Commonwealth, he talks about the urgent need to improve child care options – and that includes on military installations. This year, he championed a few provisions that passed as part of the annual defense bill, including fully funding childcare fee assistance programs, authorizing $29.7 million to fund various Child Development Centers – including several across Virginia, and requiring DoD to initiate a pilot program to establish inclusive playgrounds at military installations for children with special needs.
• STRENGTHENING OUR MILITARY: Sen. Warner also supported a number of projects to strengthen the capacity of our military, including authorizing 14 military construction projects in Virginia and $33.5 billion in shipbuilding funding for the procurement of seven battle force ships. Read more about all the projects that Sen. Warner personally championed here.
• HANG-AR IN THERE: Sen. Warner built on previous appropriations success and secured an additional $20 million for one of the Virginia National Guard’s top priorities – a new hangar at the Sandston National Guard site – so they can retire their aging facility at the Richmond airport.
• TRAINING CENTER: Sen. Warner secured $4 million for the planning and design of a new 200-member Army Reserve Center in Richmond.
• SUPPORTING VETERANS’ MENTAL HEALTH: In 2020, Sen. Warner wrote and passed the IMPROVE Wellbeing for Veterans Act, which – among other things – created a grant program to enable the VA to conduct additional suicide prevention-related outreach to veterans through veteran-serving organizations and other state and local programs. This year, eight organizations operating in Virginia received grants courtesy of this law, totaling over $4.5 million. Read more about the organizations here.
• DOING IT FOR DOSS: Sen. Warner led full Congressional passage of a bill to rename the Lynchburg VA Clinic for Private First-Class Desmond T. Doss, a World War II hero that hailed from the Lynchburg area.
• WE ALL LIVE IN A VIRGINIA-CLASS SUBMARINE: In the end-of-year package, Sen. Warner secured $5.7 billion in supplemental appropriations for the Navy to purchase an additional Virginia-class Submarine.

PROMOTING STABILITY ACROSS THE GLOBE

• STANDING UP FOR SUDAN: All year long, Sen. Warner pushed for the U.S. government and international institutions to do more to stop the hostilities and increase humanitarian aid access during the ongoing and tragic conflict in Sudan. This included his efforts to have the U.S. Secretary of State appoint Tom Perriello as U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan. Later in the year, Sen. Warner also passed his Response to Conflict in Sudan Act, which codifies the Special Envoy for Sudan position and elevates it to ensure he or she reports directly to the Secretary. It ensures the Department of State has appropriate staffing and resources for the Envoy’s office. In addition to these actions, Sen. Warner also gave a recent floor speech on the conflict and held several meetings with members of Virginia’s Sudanese-American diaspora.
• PROMOTING STABILITY IN THE WEST BANK: Amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Sen.Warner has consistently highlighted the urgent need to promote stability in the West Bank by sanctioning organizations that support extremist settler violence. This effort led President Biden to issue Executive Order 14115, which authorized property blocking and visa sanctions against individuals and entities undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank. The EO was successfully used by the administration to impose sanctions on those encouraging and carrying out violence in the West Bank multiple times.
• TMI on TPS: Amidst concerning humanitarian situations in Lebanon and Haiti, Sen. Warner successfully pushed to extend and redesignate temporary protected status for immigrants from those countries, shielding them from deportation to dangerous conditions. 
• AN INTELLIGENT GUY: In his capacity as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Warner passed into law critical reforms to Section 702, a critical foreign intelligence mechanism that keeps Americans safe at home and abroad.
• SAY IAA-H: Also in his capacity as Chair of the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Warner negotiated a bipartisan bill to authorize funding, provide legal authorities, and enhance congressional oversight of the U.S. Intelligence Community. It includes provisions to prevent China from avoiding our sanctions, advance AI security research, counter biotechnology threats, enhance insight into the Maduro regime, and more. Read more about its full provisions here.
• WAHOOWA: After Sen. Warner made a convincing case, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence selected the University of Virginia to house its new Data & Policy Institute, which has already received a $20 million federal grant. Sen. Warner cut the ribbon on the facility in November.

PROMOTING FINANCIAL SECURITY

• GOING GREEN: When Sen. Warner voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, it contained a significant grant program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a first-of-its-kind program to mobilize financing and private capital to address the climate crisis. The EPA listened to Sen. Warner’s direct advocacy to ensure CDFIs and MDIs would be eligible to receive financing, and as a result, numerous CDFIs won funding. Sen. Warner is the leading congressional champion of CDFIs, aka Community Development Financial Institutions, which are a backbone for underserved communities including small and disadvantaged businesses that tend to have fewer banking relationships and less access to credit.
• EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY: Sen. Warner continued his previous work on the Economic Opportunity Coalition, a public-private partnership he helped found that increases the reach of CDFIs. This year, on its two-year anniversary, Sen. Warner and EOC leadership announced several new private partners and deposit commitments that will expand capital for CDFIs across the country.
• THROW IT OUT THE DISCOUNT WINDOW: After Sen. Warner introduced legislation to improve the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve’s discount window, a tool that plays an important role in supporting the stability of the banking system, the Federal Reserve Board followed his lead and opened public comment about how to improve the operational practices of the discount window.
• R-AI-SING FINANCE SAFEGUARDS: After Sen. Warner introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure financial regulators are ready to weather the threats AI poses to the stability of global financial markets, the U.S. Department of the Treasury took steps to seek public comment and act to shore up their response to AI threats.

FOR SCIENCE, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ENERGY

• HIGH-PERFORMING SENATOR: Last year, Sen. Warner secured a major win for Hampton Roads by making the case that the Department of Energy should house a new High Performance Data Facility at Jefferson Lab in Newport News. This year, Sen. Warner built on that success by securing an $8 million federal investment in the facility as part of the March 2024 spending bill.
• BUCH-ING TRADITION: After Sen. Warner pushed directly on U.S. Army Corps leadership, they agreed to contribute $92 million for the design and construction of a new Buchanan County High School to replace schools located in floodplains.
• A PORTLY FIGURE: Also thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and his personal advocacy for the project, Sen. Warner secured a $380 million grant for the Port of Virginia – the largest single federal award in the Port’s history. The funding will upgrade and electrify key infrastructure at the port, retiring old assets that contribute to air pollution.
• POLLUTOR REDUCER: Again thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, Sen. Warner secured a $150 million federal grant for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to implement community-driven solutions to address climate change, reduce air pollution, advance environmental justice, and accelerate Virginia’s clean energy transition.
• PARK YOURSELF RIGHT HERE: Sen. Warner helped Virginia secure $6 million and key steps towards preserving President James Monroe’s Oak Hill home as a new state park. This project will support more tourism and economic development opportunities for Loudoun County.
• THE WINDY CITY: Sen. Warner helped ensure the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project received its final and essential federal approvals. This ~$10 billion project is located approximately 23.5 nautical miles east of Virginia Beach, Virginia and once completed, will provide approximately 2.6 gigawatts of clean energy, capable of power over 650,000 homes.
• NEW DOMINION: After Sen. Warner’s vehement advocacy for the deployment of small modular reactors (also known as SMRs, these compact and safe reactors are an innovative power production method) in Virginia, he joined Dominion and Amazon to announce that they had come to an agreement to explore a commercial project that would generate at least 300 megawatts of nuclear power in Louisa County, Virginia.
• NOT CONSERVATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO CONSERVATION: After direct advocacy to the U.S. Forest Service, Sen. Warner announced $9.5 million in federal funding to protect 3,311 acres of the Southern Appalachian Rich Cove Forest, as well as nearly 14 miles of mountain streams at the headwaters of the New River. The funding will secure public access to outdoor recreation activities, alleviate pressure on existing Preserve resources, and support the tourism economy of surrounding communities.
• CONSERVATION NATION: Additionally, Sen. Warner announced $23 million to conserve key portions of the Albemarle Sound, which will preserve approximately 22,000 acres of highly productive working forest land, 93 miles of stream corridors, 6 square miles of wetlands, and 17 miles of frontage along the State Scenic Meherrin and Nottoway Rivers. In addition to directly advocating for this funding, it was made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, legislation Sen. Warner strongly supported.
• WHAT’S THE WRDA?: Sen. Warner negotiated multiple big wins for Virginia in the 2024 Water Resources Development Act, like securing $120 million for the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery Program, boosting climate resiliency resources for Norfolk, authorizing $1.3 million for wastewater infrastructure in King William County, enhancing downstream recreation activities for Gathright Dam, Lake Moomaw, and the Jackson River in Alleghany County, and more. Read more about all the projects authorized for Virginia’s waterways and local economies here.
• REACTIVE RESULTS: Sen. Warner wrote and passed a provision in the annual defense bill to require a pilot program proposal for a small modular reactor (SMR) on a military installation.

DIRECTLY SUPPORTING VIRGINIANS

• SERVING LOOKS AND SERVING OTHERS: Sen. Warner’s team responded to thousands of Virginians following their direct requests for assistance for the federal government, and recouped $11,272,644.12 for Virginians from federal agencies… including $116,035.48 from the Department of Defense, $10,087,320.06 from the IRS, $399,572.70 from the Office of Personnel Management, $482,223.28 from Social Security, $75,813.41 from the VA, and $111,679.19 from all other agencies.
• GOING ON A TRIP IN OUR FAVORITE ROCKET SHIP: Last year, Sen. Warner pushed directly on the State Department to address severe backlogs in passport processing times, successfully getting the Department to dedicate more staff and resources to the issue. As a result, wait times for passports plummeted. Sen. Warner also hosted a Passport Processing Fair in Northern Virginia to bring the federal government to Virginians and get their passports renewals done. In addition to this event, his office also helped 157 constituents resolve passport processing issues throughout the year.
• DEATH AND TAXES: Sen. Warner heard that Virginians were still waiting on the IRS to process their pandemic-era Employee Retention Credit claims, and in response, he directly pushed on IRS Commissioner Werfel for action. Following his advocacy, more than 90 percent of the constituents reached out to his office about the delay have finally received resolution from the IRS.
• TALKING TO TYLER: After a Louisa County resident, Tyler Wenrich, was detained in Turks and Caicos because he mistakenly took two individual bullets on a plane, Sen. Warner advocated for lenient sentencing. Authorities listened, and Tyler avoided a mandatory minimum sentence and was able to reunite with his family in Virginia after paying a fine.
• MONEY, MONEY, MONEY: As part of the FY 2024 Appropriations process, Sen. Warner secured over $178 million dollars that will directly benefit 145 community-based projects across the Commonwealth. These projects fund everything from new water treatment systems to affordable housing developments to new police cars. Read more about each project here.
• SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED: Listening to and answering concerns directly from Virginians is one of the most important parts of Sen. Warner’s job. His office responded to a total of 217,330 messages from constituents in 2024.
• GOING POSTAL: Sen. Warner was a tireless advocate for improving postal service delivery for Virginia residents this year. Following delays, Sen. Warner sent letters, sat down with leadership from USPS including Postmaster DeJoy and USPS Virginia District Manager Gerald Roane, and pushed to ensure Virginia was ready to handle increased election mail.
• WHAT’S IN A NAME?: Sen. Warner also successfully led legislation to rename post offices in Loudoun County and Petersburg for Madeleine Albright and John Mercer Langston, respectively, and to rename the Roanoke federal courthouse for civil rights lawyer Reuben E. Lawson.