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On the international front, Warner, who serves on the Armed Service Committee, said that he is “hopeful that through negotiations and diplomacy, the situation (in the Middle East) will be resolved. I don’t want to see bloodshed.”
Warner has been an advocate of arms control since 1972 and has been actively involved in defense issues.
It was in this defense capacity that Warner persuaded the federal government to bail out Avtex Fibers Inc. of Front Royal two years ago when the company threatened to close down permanently.
Company officials claimed that stiff competition and tough environmental regulation forced them to close the plant, which, at the time, was the sole supplier of carbonized rayon used by the U.S. defense and space program.
Following a $38 million bailout, Avtex was exposed as one of the nation’s largest industrial polluters and eventually had its water discharge permit revoked by the state. The plant subsequently closed.
Warner defended his role in the bailout, saying that it was a matter of national security to protect the only carbonized rayon producer. With a second source of rayon now available, Warner said that had he known the extent of Avtex’s air and water pollution, he would have insisted that the company resolve its environmental problems before it was permitted to continue operating.
The GOP senator maintains that
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