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If you would like more information about how to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19, take a look at these resources from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Friends —

We hope this email finds you and your loved ones safe and healthy. Team Warner will keep sending these weekly updates to keep folks around Virginia up to date with what Mark Warner is working on in the Senate. Between the Great American Outdoors Act passing in the House, and Mark introducing bills to support low-income and minority communities during the coronavirus pandemic and expand common sense gun reforms, it's been a busy week. Let's break it down.

Here's what Mark is focused on right now:

  • This week, the House of Representatives passed the Great American Outdoors Act with bi-partisan support. The bill includes full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and will support 100,000 jobs across the country (10,000 in Virginia alone!) while providing the resources to address maintenance backlogs in our national parks. Mark has been working on this bill for the last three years; it passed in the Senate with bi-partisan support in June.
    → Up next: This bill heads to the President's desk for signature.

  • Mark Warner introduced the Jobs and Neighborhood Investment Act to help low-income and Black and brown communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic withstand the outbreak and emerge even stronger. The bill includes investment in Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), a Neighborhood Loan Program to support small business lending to businesses serving low- and moderate-income and minority communities, and additional programs to strengthen MDIs and CDFIs, aimed at strengthening the relationship between these institutions and federal agencies like the U.S. Treasury.

  • This week, Mark Warner and Senator Tim Kaine introduced the "Virginia Plan" to expand the progress that Virginia has made on common sense gun reforms nationwide. Thanks to our General Assembly, the Commonwealth has taken action to end gun violence; it's time for Congress to act.

  • Mark Warner called to continue unemployment benefits as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Mark said that not extending these benefits while folks are still out of work due to the outbreak would be "a disaster."

  • Mark Warner joined Senators Tim Kaine, Ron Wyden, and Jeff Merkley in co-sponsoring the Preventing Authoritarian Tactics on America's Streets Act, following reports of unidentified officers deploying unjustified and unconstitutional intimidation tactics on protesters in Portland, Oregon. This bill would protect the constitutional rights of peaceful protesters.

  • Mark called for Congress to be briefed by the F.B.I. on possible disinformation threats around the upcoming election. Mark is committed to ensuring our elections are fair and free of foreign interference, but to do that the Senate needs to work with all of the available information.

  • This week, Mark Warner introduced a bill to prevent Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos or anyone in the Trump administration from denying funding to schools who do not fully reopen in person in the fall. We can't afford to leave any of our children behind, but reopening too soon puts children, educators, and all those who work in our schools at risk. Reopening decisions should be made on the recommendations of public health professionals, local officials, and all available data.

Thank you for your support.

— Team Warner
 
 


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