Warner is the senior senator from Virginia and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 6, 2009. Warner is next up for reelection in 2020.
![Photo of Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]](/static/legislator-photos/412321-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2018 Report Card for Warner.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Warner is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Warner has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 17, 2019. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Mark Warner sits on the following committees:
- Vice Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
- Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
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Senate Committee on Finance
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
- Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
- Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
- Senate Committee on the Budget
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Enacted Legislation
Warner was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 3714: Ashanti Alert Act of 2018
- S. 1914: Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies Act of 2017
- S.J.Res. 49: A joint resolution condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first ...
- S. 1500: Keeping Capital Local for Underserved Communities Act of 2017
- S. 1444: Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act
- S. 2826 (114th): Promoting Value Based Defense Procurement Act of 2016
- S. 1468 (114th): A bill to designate the arboretum at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, as the “Phyllis E. Galanti Arboretum”.
Does 11 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Warner sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (20%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Health (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Education (10%) Transportation and Public Works (8%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) International Affairs (3%)
Recent Bills
Some of Warner’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S.J.Res. 52: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, ...
- S. 2366: Commonsense Reporting Act of 2019
- S. 2329: Fort Monroe National Monument Land Acquisition Act
- S.Res. 286: A resolution designating July 26, 2019, as “United States Intelligence Professionals Day”.
- S. 2242: Foreign Influence Reporting in Elections Act
- S. 1951: Designing Accounting Safeguards To Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data
- S. 1713: Aeronautics Innovation Act
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2009 to Sep 2019, Warner missed 115 of 3,233 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is much worse than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
