Mark R. Warner

The communities we represent depend on HUD-approved housing counseling agencies to serve as trusted guides through one of the most consequential financial decisions of families’ lives.

Pre-purchase counseling has been a cornerstone of HUD’s counseling program since 1968, created specifically to open the doors of homeownership to Americans who had long been shut out, and it remains just as essential today.

Provisions from my Hospice CARE Act will protect patients and taxpayers from bad actors attempting to steal essential resources.

My Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act is a practical step to improving access to care, reducing the burden on hospitals and clinics, and making our health system work better for seniors.

Local pharmacies can provide routine tests, vaccines, and treatments for common illnesses like flu and COVID, and they must have the resources they need to do it effectively.

These provisions will expand care options, especially for rural and underserved communities, and protect patients from fraud.

I am grateful to my colleagues on the House Ways and Means committee who stood up for patients on Medicare.

The next DNI must be committed to restoring trust in the office, protecting the integrity of our intelligence, and ensuring our nation’s intelligence professionals can speak truth to power, without fear or interference.

At a time when the boundaries between verified intelligence and politically convenient claims have too often been blurred, it is critical that the office remain grounded in facts, independence, and the rule of law.

The Director of National Intelligence is entrusted with one of the most serious responsibilities in government: providing objective, fact-based intelligence to policymakers and the American people, regardless of politics or pressure from…

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is the gift that keeps on giving, continuing to make Virginia’s airports safer and more efficient for the travelers that move through them.

We have to get that fixed very quickly, Mr. Williams.

I want to move along quickly.

I have been a huge advocate of CDFIs as part of the financial network, and again bipartisan.

I think it is wonderful. But if you want to see the real stuff, come to Virginia.

I do not think this issue has been raised, but I do--would like to get your thoughts.

While I have great, you know, respect for California, Minnesota, Nebraska, remember the 250th in many ways was--and regardless what those folks in Boston say, it is more Williamsburg.

We also have to, I think, you know, think through, you know, do we actually have the notion of some kind of, in a better sense, walled garden around all of the intellectual property and images and parts of our history the Smithsonian…

I do not ever want to lose the trusted source. Right now, you cannot trust everything that happens with AI.

You know, just as deepfakes can manipulate our political process, you know, you could see AI tools at scale and speed manipulate our history and cultural in ways that could be frankly devastating.

I stand by my earlier statement. You are doing a good job because that is a pretty darn comprehensive answer.

I want to commend you, Secretary Bunch, for--I think you are doing a great job.

I have watched how you have, you know, taken on this challenge, worked with the community across the region.

Do you commit that if confirmed that you will make 702 compliance one of your top priorities?

We're viewing this as, some of us joking in the Executive Branch about continuous reauthorization.