Startup 3.0 legislation will enable brightest minds to stay and do business in U.S.
Investing in talent through bipartisan immigration reform is a key to growing the economy in general and nurturing Northern Virginia startups in particular. That was the message U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) conveyed to a roomful of tech entrepreneurs and business leaders at Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce event at the Wolf Trap Center for Education in Vienna on Friday. While Warner says he thinks the access to capital, which dried up in the economic downturn of the last several years, is poised to make a comeback, he mostly spoke about the access to talent that he said would expand greatly under the Startup 3.0 bill. "If you look around this room, and I have seen data that supports this, 35 to 40 percent of tech-related companies in …
Virginia senator said his three daughters asked him Friday what he was going to do about school shootings tragedy.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner wants to tighten gun laws, saying "enough is enough" in the wake of the Connecticut school shootings Friday that saw 20 young children killed and six adults. “I‘ve been a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights,” the Democrat from Alexandria said Monday outside the Virginia Capitol, where he was attending an unrelated meeting, The Washington Post reported Monday. “I’ve got an A rating from the NRA. But the status quo isn’t acceptable. I’ve got three daughters," the Post reported. They asked me on Friday evening, ‘Dad, what are you gonna do about this?’ There’s got to be a way to put reasonable restrictions, particularly as we look at assault weapons, as we look at these fast clips of ammunition.” “I believe …
6:51 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Oh really, Sen. Warner? You mean say that until your daughters asked you what you were going to do about gun violence that it never occured to you to go against the radicals in the 2nd amendment discussion? The NRA represents only gun dealers and manufacturers and but they handsomely reward those who do their bidding....what was that A rating worth to you? more ›
Skip Endale
11:31 pm on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
you should have mowed that lawn yourself before piping on about 3.0 n stuff more ›