Congress Should Adopt Mark Warner Budget Strategy

• By Stan Collender
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• May 10, 2011, Midnight

Sen. Mark Warner is best known at the moment for being one of the “gang of six” — the three Democrats and three Republicans who have been trying to come up with a bipartisan deficit reduction plan in the Senate. But long before the Virginia Democrat helped start the group, he was known as a fiscally conservative governor who received high marks for turning the state deficit that he inherited into a surplus.