Mark Warner actually said...

"In January of this year--and I again appreciate the GAO witness today--placed the security clearance process on its, quote, 'high-risk list' of areas that the government needs broad-based transformati..."

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

"Just last month, at an open hearing the Director of National intelligence, Director Coats, said that our security clearance process is, in his words, 'broken and needs to be reformed.'"

"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."