Mark Warner
Democratic · VA · United States Senator from Virginia
Mark Warner is a Democratic candidate in the August 4, 2026 Virginia primary for United States Senator.
Where Mark Warner stands, based on their records
Supports
AI Regulation (1 record), Healthcare Affordability (2 records), Environment and Public Health (3 records),
Opposes
Government Spending Reduction (1 record), Personal Income Tax Reduction (1 record)
Mixed record
Anti-Corruption (5 support · 1 oppose)
Track record
Track record — AI Regulation
AI Regulation · 1 support
Gave a Senate floor speech rolling out six artificial-intelligence bills. They included required security testing of advanced AI models, safeguards to stop AI from making child sexual abuse images, disclosure of the power and water data centers use, and money to retrain workers.
July 21, 2026Supports AI Regulation
Source: warner.senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Healthcare Affordability
Healthcare Affordability · 2 support
Voted to pass H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, which let Medicare negotiate some drug prices and capped insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients. It also funded clean energy tax credits and set a 15 percent minimum tax on large corporations. The Senate split 50-50 and the Vice President broke the tie; it became Public Law 117-169 on August 16, 2022.
August 7, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted yea on final Senate passage of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which passed 60-39 in Senate Roll Call Vote 396 of the 111th Congress.
December 24, 2009Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 3 support
Voted to pass H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, which let Medicare negotiate some drug prices and capped insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients. It also funded clean energy tax credits and set a 15 percent minimum tax on large corporations. The Senate split 50-50 and the Vice President broke the tie; it became Public Law 117-169 on August 16, 2022.
August 7, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Sponsored S. 1000, the Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2014, enacted as Public Law 113-273, which directed the Office of Management and Budget to produce an annual cross-agency financial report on Chesapeake Bay restoration spending.
December 18, 2014Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Sponsored S. 1275, the National Foundation on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Establishment Act, enacted as Public Law 111-332, which chartered a nonprofit foundation to support federal fitness and nutrition programs.
December 22, 2010Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Anti-Corruption
Anti-Corruption · 5 support · 1 oppose
Voted guilty at the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on the incitement-of-insurrection article, which fell short of two thirds on a 57-43 vote in Senate Roll Call Vote 59 of the 117th Congress.
February 13, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Released, as Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee's bipartisan report on Russian active measures campaigns and interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
August 18, 2020Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: intelligence.senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted guilty on Article II, obstruction of Congress, of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump; the article failed 47-53 in Senate Roll Call Vote 34 of the 116th Congress.
February 5, 2020Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted guilty on Article I, abuse of power, of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump; the article failed 48-52 in Senate Roll Call Vote 33 of the 116th Congress.
February 5, 2020Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Discussed possible jobs, including a federal judgeship, for a state senator's daughter while urging him not to resign and hand Republicans the Virginia Senate. Federal prosecutors closed the inquiry in December without charges.
October 12, 2014Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: dailyprogress.com · researched July 30, 2026
Sponsored S. 994, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), enacted as Public Law 113-101, which required federal agencies to report spending in standardized machine-readable form and publish it on USASpending.gov.
May 9, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 2 support
Wrote a bipartisan IRS customer service bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved on July 30, 2026, proposing callbacks when hold times pass five minutes and clearer online refund tracking (Improving IRS Customer Service Act).
July 30, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: warner.senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Sponsored S. 994, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), enacted as Public Law 113-101, which required federal agencies to report spending in standardized machine-readable form and publish it on USASpending.gov.
May 9, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 oppose
Voted yea on the motion to concur that cleared H.R. 4346, the CHIPS and Science Act semiconductor manufacturing package, for the President; the motion was agreed to 64-33 in Senate Roll Call Vote 271 of the 117th Congress.
July 27, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Social Programs and Welfare
Social Programs and Welfare · 1 support
Sponsored S. 1098, the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act, enacted as Public Law 117-200, which let borrowers split jointly consolidated federal student loans into separate individual loans.
October 11, 2022Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Gun Control
Gun Control · 1 support
Voted yea on the motion to concur that cleared S. 2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun-safety package, for the President; the motion was agreed to 65-33 in Senate Roll Call Vote 242 of the 117th Congress.
June 23, 2022Supports Gun Control
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — National Defense
National Defense · 2 support
Won unanimous Senate passage of the Warner-Rounds legislation to block smuggling of American-made semiconductors and AI chips into China.
May 22, 2026Supports National Defense
Source: warner.senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted yea on Senate passage of H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, which reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and passed 60-34 in Senate Roll Call Vote 150 of the 118th Congress.
April 19, 2024Supports National Defense
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Personal Income Tax Reduction
Personal Income Tax Reduction · 1 oppose
Voted nay on the motion that gave final Senate approval to H.R. 1, the 2017 tax law, which cut individual and corporate tax rates; the motion was agreed to 51-48 in Senate Roll Call Vote 323 of the 115th Congress.
December 20, 2017Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 4 support
Voted yes at Senate passage of H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act, 61-36, on a Senate rewrite of the House bill. It repealed the federal man-woman definition of marriage and made states honor valid out-of-state same-sex and interracial marriages. The House agreed on December 8, 2022, and it became Public Law 117-228 on December 13, 2022.
November 29, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Sponsored S.J.Res. 49, enacted as Public Law 115-58, a joint resolution that condemned the August 2017 violence and domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia and rejected White nationalist, White supremacist, Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi hate groups.
September 14, 2017Supports Civil Rights
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted yea on the motion to concur in the House amendment to H.R. 2965, the legislative vehicle that repealed the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy; the motion was agreed to 65-31 in Senate Roll Call Vote 281 of the 111th Congress.
December 18, 2010Supports Civil Rights
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Ordered the first post-execution DNA testing conducted by any U.S. state, in the case of Roger Keith Coleman; the results released on this date confirmed Coleman's guilt in the murder for which Virginia executed him in 1992.
January 12, 2006Supports Civil Rights
Source: npr.org · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability · 1 support
Voted yea on the conference report to H.R. 4173, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was agreed to 60-39 in Senate Roll Call Vote 208 of the 111th Congress.
July 15, 2010Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 1 support
Voted to pass H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The Senate replaced the House text with a bipartisan deal putting roughly $1 trillion into roads, bridges, rail, transit, broadband, ports, airports, water systems, and the power grid. The Senate passed it 69-30. The House later agreed, and it became Public Law 117-58 on November 15, 2021.
August 10, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — General
General · 6 records
Gave a Senate floor speech rolling out six artificial-intelligence bills. They included required security testing of advanced AI models, safeguards to stop AI from making child sexual abuse images, disclosure of the power and water data centers use, and money to retrain workers.
July 21, 2026
Source: warner.senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Sponsored S. 3938, enacted as Public Law 118-200, which designated the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Lynchburg, Virginia as the Private First Class Desmond T. Doss VA Clinic.
December 23, 2024
Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Authored Warner Amendment No. 5488 to H.R. 5376, which struck the extension of the state and local tax deduction limitation and instead extended the limitation on excess business losses of noncorporate taxpayers; the Senate adopted it 50-50 in Roll Call Vote 324 of the 117th Congress.
August 7, 2022
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Took the gavel as incoming Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for the 117th Congress and issued his first statement in that role, condemning Russia's imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
February 2, 2021
Source: warner.senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Chaired the National Governors Association from July 20, 2004 to July 18, 2005, succeeding Dirk Kempthorne and preceding Mike Huckabee.
July 20, 2004
Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 30, 2026
Took office as the 69th Governor of Virginia, serving a single four-year term that ended on January 14, 2006.
January 12, 2002
Source: nga.org · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Other records
Other records · 4 records
Voted against H.R. 5371, the funding bill that ended the 43-day government shutdown, covering most agencies through January 30, 2026 and three areas for the full year. It passed the Senate 60-40, the House agreed 222-209, and it became law November 12, 2025 (Public Law 119-37).
November 10, 2025
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted against the Senate's version of H.R. 1, which extended the 2017 income tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid, and raised the federal debt limit. The tally was 50-50, and the Vice President broke the tie in favor. It became Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025.
July 1, 2025
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Voted against H.R. 1968, the full-year government funding bill, which the Senate passed 54-46. It funded federal agencies through the end of the 2025 budget year and avoided a government shutdown. It became Public Law 119-4 the next day, March 15, 2025.
March 14, 2025
Source: senate.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Approved HB 5018, the 2004 Virginia omnibus tax bill, which raised the state sales and use tax from 3.5 to 4 percent and the cigarette tax from 2.5 to 20 cents per pack while phasing down the state sales tax on food.
June 3, 2004
Source: legacylis.virginia.gov · researched July 30, 2026
Past race Mark Warner ran in:
- United States Senator · August 4, 2026 · Virginia
Profile last researched July 6, 2026.