Mark R. Warner

I encourage my colleagues in the House to quickly pass this bipartisan housing package and deliver some real relief to Americans across the country.

This landmark legislation will boost the housing supply, bring down costs, and protect renters, veterans, and rural Virginians.

The housing affordability crisis is real and prevalent throughout the country.

We also reiterate our request for an all-Senators briefing on election threats, including efforts to influence election outcomes through influence or cyber-enabled means.

In light of our concerns, and consistent with past practice, we request that ODNI, CISA, FBI, and NSA provide regular briefings to congressional staff starting immediately and continuing through the November 2026 midterm elections.

Although we are less than 6 months from the election and less than three months from the start of early voting in several states, ODNI’s election security efforts for this election cycle are clearly still in their infancy.

States had no say in this design and no time to prepare.

The Trump administration’s dramatic reduction of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) staff, defunding of the MSISAC, and cutting over $700 million in CISA’s proposed fiscal year 2027 budget demonstrates a dangerous…

Restoring that trust requires, at minimum, an honest accounting of where the agency stands.

The experience, institutional knowledge, and trusted relationships built by career staff are irreplaceable assets and vital to supporting states and critical infrastructure owners and operators to defend against cyberthreats.

While your efforts to restore some of CISA’s staffing are welcome, they appear insufficient given the scale of threats facing our nation’s cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, particularly at the state level.

It was great to meet with NASA Administrator Isaacman, Director Dyal, and employees to hear about the great work being done at Langley and how I can support the center in Congress.

Langley is critical to NASA’s mission, and it is my priority that we keep these instrumental jobs.

The Langley Research Center in Hampton has long been a source of tremendous pride not only for NASA, but also for Hampton Roads, the Commonwealth, and our entire nation.

It’s critical that government works closely with industry, regulators, and cybersecurity experts to develop and regularly update the plans we need to protect our critical infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated malicious actors…

As AI continues to rapidly evolve, we must ensure our cybersecurity defenses keep up with the threats of the moment,

Your May 1 notification falsely stated that “the hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated.”

This reality is worsened by the abdication of leadership at the Federal agencies charged with protecting America’s critical infrastructure.

This is not a hypothetical. SNAP participation is already declining at alarming rates, with over 3.5 million people leaving SNAP just since the OBBBA was enacted.

As former governors who have had to balance budgets, we know exactly what this unfunded mandate means: states will be forced to raise taxes, cut education, health care, or transportation, or restrict access to SNAP itself.

The stakes are enormous. About half of all states will face new costs exceeding $100 million per year.

The One Big “Beautiful” Bill Act (OBBBA) contained a ticking time bomb for state budgets and for millions of low-income families who depend on food assistance.

It’s critical that government works closely with industry, regulators, and cybersecurity experts to develop and regularly update the plans we need to protect our critical infrastructure from increasingly sophisticated malicious actors…

As AI continues to rapidly evolve, we must ensure our cybersecurity defenses keep up with the threats of the moment.

Our country is facing a housing crisis, and in the Senate, we’re fighting to expand access to affordable housing across the Commonwealth. Virginians shouldn’t have to choose between accessing public transportation and affording their…