U.S. Senator, Virginia

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Mark Warner served as governor of Virginia from 2002 until January 2006. His administration inherited $6 billion in budget shortfalls, and ended with a surplus that allowed the largest single investment in K-12 education in Virginia history, a reinvestment in one of the nation�s premier public college and university systems, and a record investment in cleanup of the nation�s largest estuary: the Chesapeake Bay.

Governor Warner did this by cutting budgets, finding efficiencies and making business � like reforms to state government and public schools, and eventually taking on a modernization of Virginia�s entire tax code to promote fairness, long-term fiscal integrity, and the preservation of core services. He put a focus on economic development in areas hard hit by job losses � turning around jobless rates in those regions.