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05/18/2023 Lawmakers Reintroduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Test Portable Benefits
11/10/2022 Letter to Chris Williamson, Assistant Secretary of the Mine Safety and Health Administration - Manchin, Brown, Casey, Warner, Kaine Push MSHA for New Silica Standard for Miners
11/01/2022 Tweet - "Richmond -- mark your calendars for this career fair! USPS is also hiring all across the Commonwealth, and this resource has great tips about securing a job."
10/12/2022 Statement of U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner Applauding Release of Additional H-2B Visas
08/20/2022 Tweet - "This year, we've passed laws to incentivize American manufacturing and innovation. We're creating good-paying jobs powering our nation and building next-gen tech."
07/13/2022 Warner, Kaine, Casey, Brown, Manchin Introduce Bill to Improve the Black Lung Benefits Program
05/04/2022 Tweet - "I'm incredibly grateful for the independent, truth-seeking journalists putting in work to keep people informed. We need to be doing more to protect local journalists from monopolies, consolidation, and layoffs in the press industry."
04/28/2022 Tweet - "I'm dismayed by the layoffs we're seeing at newsrooms around Virginia and across the country. Our local press does incredible work informing folks, seeking truth, and reporting accurately, and it's frightening to watch newsrooms shrink over the years."
04/25/2022 Tweet - "Bringing more manufacturing jobs straight to Virginia. Cutting costs and easing the supply chain. I'm working to get my China competition bill across the finish line as soon as possible."
04/19/2022 Tweet - "It's critical that folks get their mail on time. So after repeatedly following up on the delays in Charlottesville, I'm calling for pay raises so that USPS can hire and retain great mail carriers. https://nbc29.com/2022/04/14/sen-warner-is-back-charlottesville-push-usps-delays/#:~:text=CHARLOTTESVILLE%2C%20Va.,to%20get%20their%20mail%20consistently."
04/10/2022 Tweet - "Our China competition bill is a real step we can take towards bringing more manufacturing and research jobs to Virginia. And the whole Virginia delegation is fighting to get them here."
03/31/2022 Statement of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner on Announcement Making Available an Additional 35,000 H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Visas
03/26/2022 Tweet - "Every astronaut that's ever walked on the moon has trained in VA -- and now we're securing another generation of scientific discoveries and job creation by investing in places like @JLab_News . Honored to hear about their work and share what we're doing in Congress to support them."
03/25/2022 Tweet - "Agreed, @BobbyScott -- we're seeing the lowest unemployment claims since 1969 because the American Rescue Plan got Americans back to work faster."
03/15/2022 Tweet - "A woman needs to work this far into the year to make what a man made in 2021 -- and the problem is even worse for Black and Latina women. We need equal pay for equal work -- it's critical to closing the racial wealth gap and ending child poverty. #EqualPayDay"
03/05/2022 Tweet - "In case you missed it: the U.S. announced it added 678K jobs in February, beating forecasts again. The American Rescue Plan rebooted our economy and got people back to work faster."
03/03/2022 Tweet - "We can fight inflation and create American jobs by getting my bipartisan competition bill across the finish line. It will bring high-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States, ease supply chains, and lower prices on goods that need semiconductors.
02/23/2022 Tweet - "A lot of Americans are employed in the gig economy, but are ineligible for benefit programs because old models don't fit an evolving workforce. I've introduced a bill to address that and test out models to better connect these workers to benefits."
02/17/2022 Tweet - "Today, I led a bipartisan group to reintroduce a bill that would allow the DOL to test portable benefit designs for gig workers. We need a benefits model that fits the 21st century, and this program would help us better support an evolving workforce."
02/17/2022 Lawmakers Reintroduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Test Portable Benefit Models
02/10/2022 Letter to Hon. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Hon. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor - Warner, Kaine Urge Biden Administration to Ensure Virginia Seafood Processors Receive Necessary Visas
02/04/2022 Letter to Gary Gensler, Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission - Warner, Brown Call on SEC to Update Human Capital Disclosures so that Companies Report the Number of Employees who are Not Full-time Workers
01/04/2022 Tweet - "Rebuilding our semiconductor manufacturing capacity would create high-paying American jobs, ease strains on the supply chain, and help America stay a leader on tech. The Senate got my bipartisan bill passed: now it's up to the House."
12/21/2021 Tweet - "Yesterday, @USDOL & @DHSgov announced 20,000 extra H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas -- something I've been advocating for to help support our seafood industry in VA. This will be a tremendous benefit to small, family-owned businesses that need temporary help."
12/20/2021 Statement from U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner on Additional Temporary Nonagricultural Worker Visas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022
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