Mark Warner: “I would simply say that one of the things a number of us, and I really appreciate the Chair holding this hearing, is not…”

“I would simply say that one of the things a number of us, and I really appreciate the Chair holding this hearing, is not only how we find that permanent source of funding, but how we also use tools--and this is something Governor Rendell has been working on--on how we create at a national level something that every other industrial nation in the world has: an infrastructure financing authority that allows us to centralize the financing, kind of intellectual capacity, to be able to kind of partner with Wall Street in a way the public sector gets protected to be able to put in place long-term debt, and to be able to have some form of that government backstop again that every other nation uses as a tool.”