Mark Warner

Built World

As of October 2026: Active

Chesterfield County Airport has secured $4.9 million in federal funding to extend runway 15/33 by 800 feet. The Federal Aviation Administration awarded the money in mid-September 2026 as part of a $1.1 billion nationwide airport grant package, covering part of Phase 7 of the airport's expansion.

Updated Oct 8

Rule Changes

As of October 2026: Sitting senator; backed the law that required this rule

For decades, a bank, a fund, and a city government filed financial data to US regulators in formats that could not talk to each other. On June 25, 2026, nine agencies published a joint rule forcing all of them onto one machine-readable system.

Updated Oct 6

Built World

As of October 2026: Democratic senator, co-secured $6M grant for PAC

The Federal Aviation Administration recorded a $6 million grant to the Peninsula Airport Commission on September 11. The money will rebuild part of the main taxiway at Newport News-Williamsburg Airport (PHF) — 1,400 feet, one slice of a 6,250-foot project.

Updated Oct 3

Built World

As of September 2026: Senator from Virginia; advocate for federal airport funding

Norfolk International Airport is in the middle of its biggest renovation since the main terminal went up in 1974. A new $7.9 million federal grant funds the final construction phase: a 1,400-foot taxiway to a new cargo area, plus rebuilding 3,500 feet of the terminal entrance road.

Updated Sep 23

Force in Play

As of May 2026: Leading congressional oversight of Salt Typhoon campaign

Salt Typhoon, a hacking group tied to China's Ministry of State Security, spent years quietly burrowing into American telecommunications networks (AT&T, Verizon, and at least seven others) to access court-authorized wiretap systems. Now it has reached the FBI itself. On April 1, 2026, the FBI classified a breach of its Digital Collection System Network as a 'major incident' — the most serious cybersecurity designation available under federal law.

Updated May 30

Built World

As of May 2026: Calling for regulatory review of cloud concentration

On February 16, 2026, a misconfigured routing update at Cloudflare's Ashburn data center cascaded across the internet, taking down X for three hours and degrading AWS's largest region. Thousands of other websites went down too. The error took 40 minutes to identify but four hours to fix because corrupted routing tables spread to upstream providers.

Updated May 29

Rule Changes

As of May 2026: Received whistleblower complaint on Gabbard; demanding Senate Intelligence hearing

On January 28, 2026, FBI agents seized 700 boxes of 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County warehouse. Four days later, on February 1, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution urging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to hand over unredacted voter data to the DOJ — he refused, citing state privacy laws.

Updated May 23

Rule Changes

As of May 2026: Leading congressional pressure for investment adviser AML requirements

FinCEN just delayed anti-money laundering rules for investment advisers by two years, pushing compliance from January 2026 to January 2028. It's the fourth time since 2002 that federal regulators have tried—and struggled—to close what transparency advocates call a $125 trillion loophole. Sanctioned Russian oligarchs, corrupt foreign officials, and fraudsters exploit it to access U.S. markets.

Updated May 19