"I used to be governor of Virginia and we were very proud of the fact we kept that AAA bond rating."
"We do need a rules-based approach that looks at these foreign technologies that pose national security."
"I do know, and I appreciate the fact that we need to move on some of this legislation."
"I think this was a disaster that could have been avoided, on Silicon Valley Bank in particular."
"The number of notices that the regulators had the bank management had that things were going awry and the fact that nobody acted on those is extraordinarily problematic."
"Would the absence, in the case of Silicon Valley Bank, of not having a chief risk officer for 8 months... would that have not been a board responsibility to hold management accountable?"
"The enforcement actions that are currently at regulators' disposal do not take into account oversight responsibilities..."
"I think we always knew it was a huge issue, but in a post-COVID world, I do not know any family, including mine, that does not have some challenges around mental health."
"But don't you think even if you get the information right, the amount of time that that information stays right is going to be a short term?"
"I do think, and again we are--I may take a little issue with Dr. Rideout's position, because I do think you have to get the information right."
"Thank you for giving me this chance to testify."
"Let us come up with an electronic way to transmit and receive ballots."