This wasn’t Mark Warner’s first CES rodeo. The senior senator from Virginia was on-board with this whole tech thing well before being elected the state’s governor back in 2002. His time at Columbia Capital found him knee-deep in the mobile world during its formative years, including his early support of one-time telecom giant, Nextel.
After years away, the CTA invited Warner back to appear on a panel alongside fellow senators Jacky Rosen of Nevada and New Mexico’s Ben Ray Luján. The program was part of a broader, on-going initiate bring law makers to CES, as technology grows ever more central in our lives and the policies that govern them.
Warner has, fittingly, made tech a centerpiece of much of the work he’s done in Congress’ upper chamber, from social media accountability to the long-standing technological cold war between the U.S. and China. He also serves as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was a Read Entire Article
