Leave Your Phone on for Warner

Tue, March 03, 2009 - 1:19 PM

Before diving into a speech Tuesday largely focused on healthcare information technology, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., joked about his own technology background:

“I was the co-founder of Nextel, which will make me the only speaker you’ll hear from today who will actually say, ‘It’s OK to leave your cell phones on, even when I’m talking. (Laughter) When they go off you hear an annoying sound; l hear cha-ching cha-ching. So … as a federal employee, please leave those cell phones on.”

--Neil H. Simon