Mark Warner

Mark Warner met his wife, Lisa, at a party in Northern Virginia, and the couple raised three daughters, Madison, Gillian and Eliza.¹ They now have two grandsons.¹ His father was a Marine who fought at Iwo Jima, and Warner became the first person in his family to graduate from college.¹

After George Washington University and Harvard Law School, Warner pursued business rather than practicing law.¹ His early ventures included failures and a stretch of sleeping on other people's couches before he helped build the company that became Nextel.¹ He later invested in technology companies, served as Virginia's governor from 2002 to 2006 and entered the Senate in 2009.¹ He is now vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.¹

Warner and Republican John Cornyn introduced the CHIPS for America Act in 2020 to encourage domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research.² Congress subsequently funded semiconductor incentives through the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.³ His current healthcare agenda supports broader insurance coverage and extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.⁴

His campaign proposes faster housing permits, rehabilitation of existing buildings and assistance for people buying their first home.⁴ He also wants technology companies to help finance training for workers displaced by artificial intelligence.⁴ He faces Republican Bert Mizusawa on November 3, seeking a fourth Senate term that he says would be his last.⁵