Mark Warner actually said...

"I think we particularly lose on the government side, where people would come in and serve at a much perhaps lower salary than they would on the industry side, but because of the security clearance."

"I think it's really important that we all think about this, and I appreciate the GAO putting this on the national security high risk."

"the backlog of 700,000 security clearance cases is our industry's number one priority."

"I hope DOD, which has gotten a very generous bump-up in the last budget--if you're going to take this on, it would be very disappointing, at least to this Senator, if we came back and said, 'Well, we ..."