Mark Warner: “I have to tell my distinguished colleague, in the course of the lunch period, I talked with a number of individuals.…”

“I have to tell my distinguished colleague, in the course of the lunch period, I talked with a number of individuals. They said: John, the most persuasive case to me is that I have called home and talked to several of the communities that have hired the lobbyists, and they pleaded with me: We can't afford this infrastructure that we felt necessary to defend our base under the existing 205 BRAC procedure. You add another 2 years, you are going to draw down those precious small amounts of tax dollars in those communities by another 2 years. Is the sentiment in your State to go on for another 2 years with all of the uncertainty?”