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Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask President Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election in the wake of his faltering debate performance, according to the people familiar with private conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely. Warner has told others that he is deeply concerned that Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat former president Donald Trump.

Congress hasn’t even settled the 2011 spending fight and many lawmakers already are looking ahead to the next big battles over raising the country’s debt ceiling and the 2012 budget — with top Republicans beginning to draw lines in the sand. A growing number of Republicans say they will not vote to raise the country’s debt limit unless it is accompanied by big changes to the way the government taxes and spends. “If all we do is go in there in three or four weeks or in a couple months and extend the debt limit again and do nothing else,...

RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Mark R. Warner on Thursday ordered DNA evidence retested to determine whether a man convicted of rape and murder was innocent when he was executed in 1992. If the testing shows Roger Keith Coleman did not rape and kill his sister-in-law in 1981, it will be the first time in the United States a person has been exonerated by scientific testing after his execution, according to death penalty opponents. Warner said he ordered the tests because of technological advances that could provide a level of forensic certainty not available in the 1980s. "This is an extraordinarily...

WASHINGTON, May 6 - A sharply critical independent audit found Friday that Virginia's nationally recognized central crime laboratory had botched DNA tests in a leading capital murder case. The findings prompted Gov. Mark Warner to order a review of the lab's handling of testing in 150 other cases as well. Among the auditors' eight recommendations, all of which were accepted by Mr. Warner, were that the governor restrict the work of the lab's chief DNA scientist, Jeffrey Ban; review 40 cases that Mr. Ban has handled in recent years, along with a sample totaling 110 additional cases; and develop procedures...

A New Breed of Democrat BOSTON, July 25 -- Among the accolades heaped on Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner in recent months, one of them brings the Democrat particular pleasure: The upcoming issue of American Rifleman magazine features Warner's photo, right there next to Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's, lauding both for signing "pro-gun" bills into law. For Warner, who craves evidence that he's a different kind of Democrat, it couldn't get any sweeter than that. Even as he leads his state's party to the Democratic National Convention this week -- to nominate a candidate he has supported from the...

Click here to email Warner and urge him to SIGN these bills! From the Richmond Times Dispatch Bills called anti-immigrant Latino coalition asks Warner to either veto or amend them BY TYLER WHITLEY TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Mar 14, 2003 The Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations urged Gov. Mark R. Warner yesterday to veto or amend bills that spokesmen said would punish immigrants. Two measures would prohibit the issuance of driver's licenses and ID cards to illegal immigrants. Another would require illegal immigrants to pay out-of-state tuition, which is considerably higher, to attend a Virginia college. The Democratic governor has expressed...