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+ On May 23, 2005, Warner was one of fourteen moderate Senators to push through a compromise on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster. Under the agreement, the Democrats still have the right to filibuster a Bush Supreme Court nominee in an "extraordinary case", and the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees (Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor) would receive a vote by the full Senate.

Source this please--Tznkai 22:23, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Supporter of capital punishment?

Is Warner supporter of capital punishment? I never heard he spoken in favor it. Yes, he vote for rejecting racial statistics in death penalty appeals, but also voted for require DNA testing for all federal executions. 83.24.248.162 20:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not that this directly answers your questions, but Virginia tends to be a very death penalty-friendly state, usually ranking second in execution rates after Texas. Given that Virginia loves capital punishment and Virginia loves John Warner, I would surmise that John Warner loves capital punishment. Citation needed. --BDD 21:36, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not only does that not answer the question, it is also fallacious reasoning. VA Governor Kaine opposes the death penalty [1] yet he was elected with a comfortable majority [2], so it is possible to be loved by the death-penalty-loving people of Virginia and still be opposed to the death penalty. Malatinszky 18:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Veterans

He is one of the few World War II veterans left in the United States Senate

Yes. But irronicaly in current Senate serving more II WW vets than Vietnam Vets.

Vietnam Vets in Senate:

John Kerry (D-MA)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Tom Carper (D-DE)

WW II Vets:

Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
John Warner (R-VA)
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)

Warner's views

This article makes it seem like Senator Warner is more socially liberal than many Democrats. Is this really accurate? I think there needs to be some mention of issues he supports that are more in line with the mainstream of the Republican Party. 19:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Elected, not appointed

The article previously stated Warner was "appointed" in January 1979. That is incorrect. He was not appointed to office; he was elected to office. I have edited accordingly. 71.185.74.177 12:59, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsensical sentence

This current sentence in the article does not make any sense at all: "On August 26, 2007 while on NBC's Meet the Press, Warner stated that he and President Bush has observed while driving by the crosses of Arlington Cemetery." I cannot fix it, because it doesn't make sense, and I cannot guess what was intended. :( Harvard yarrd —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 19:21, August 26, 2007 (UTC).

It now makes a (weak) sort of sense, with the commas in place. It would be altogether better IMO if this and the following sentence were removed. (I get the image of a hopping liberal: "Bush lied! Bush lied!") In any event, I have changed "falsehood" (good grief!) to "hyperbole" -- AVGbuff 09:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect Statement about 2nd-longest serving VA Senator

John Warner may or may not be the second-longest serving VA Senator, but he is not the second-longest serving VA Senator behind Senator Byrd, because Senator Byrd is not from Virginia. I don't know how to correct this. For example, some choices are:

- "John Warner is the second-longest serving U.S. senator, behind Senator Byrd of West Virginia" - "John Warner is the second-longest serving Virginia senator, behind [TBD]" - "John Warner is the longest serving U.S. senator in Virginia history"

I can't vouch for any of the above, I just know what is in the article is wrong.

198.151.13.15 15:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC) Colin McRae 198.151.13.15 15:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Congress Members Who Haven't been divorced?

With all the pedophiles and prostituting Congressmembers in the news these days, it may seem inoccuous to ask, but how many Congress Members have not only not gone to prostitutes of either sex, but have also not even divorced? I remember the discussions of Gingrich serving divorce papers on his wife in the cancer ward in the hospital, but I don't recall anyone broadening the question to ask, who really has at least maintained the appearance of being monogamous? At least for trivia and curiosity sake, it would be interesting how many have, and how many have divorced once, twice, thrice, etc... It would be fun to see how this has changed over time. I strongly suspect all this divorce (and heterosexual and homosexual prostitution) was not formerly so popular in the Congress, but, that is only a suspicion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harvard yarrd (talk • contribs) 20:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot report : Found duplicate references !

In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)

"gulftimes-09-17" :
- {{cite news|title= Veterans’ defiance a nightmare for Bush|date=[[2006-09-17]]|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=108178&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26}} Gulf Times. The other WWII veterans in the Senate are [[Daniel Inouye]] (D-HI), [[Daniel Akaka]] (D-HI), [[Ted Stevens]] (R-AK) and [[Frank Lautenberg]] (D-NJ).
- {{cite news|title= Veterans’ defiance a nightmare for Bush|date=[[2006-09-17]]|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=108178&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26}} Gulf Times

DumZiBoT (talk) 03:48, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Warner.

Mark Warner is not the incumbent until January 6, so don't show John Warner as having left office.Saberwolf116 (talk) 18:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Saberwolf116 he has left office via the constitution and theirfore must be made a previous senator and I will do that today and if you do edit my edit out I will put it up for an act of vandalism period Bluedogtn (talk) 19:49, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article shows identical vote totals for both Warner and his opponents in the 1984 and 1980 senate elections. thisis highly unlikely.

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 Mark Warner is not the incumbent until January 6, so don't show John Warner as having left office.[[User:Saberwolf116|Saberwolf116]] ([[User talk:Saberwolf116|talk]]) 18:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 :Dear Saberwolf116 he has left office via the constitution and theirfore must be made a previous senator and I will do that today and if you do edit my edit out I will put it up for an act of vandalism period [[User:Bluedogtn|Bluedogtn]] ([[User talk:Bluedogtn|talk]]) 19:49, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
+The article shows identical vote totals for both Warner and his opponents in the 1984 and 1980 senate elections.  thisis highly unlikely.