WASHINGTON REPORT

摘要

The Navy and the shipbuilding industry will lose one of their most ardent and respected congressional supporters when Sen. John Warner, R-Va., retires in January 2009. Following his retirement announcement in late August, Senate colleagues from both parties lauded the senior senator from Virginia and former Armed Services Committee chairman for his long history of statesmanship and bipartisan consensus building on defense and foreign policy matters "John Warner's decision to retire from the Senate will cause this body to lose one of the great voices on behalf of our men and women in uniform, and also a strong advocate for the people of Virginia," Sen.