Mark Warner

I hope you will continue to also press to make sure that we can work with you to find relief for these families.

I can't think of a better person, on a host of these issues, to take them on in this new, important role, than Inez Tenenbaum.

The only thing I would ask, Inez, is that--a lot of this is taking place in Louisiana and Florida--they have different climate issues, in terms of humidity, than folks we've got in Virginia.

I want to add my strong support of Inez.

Senator Warner is a big proponent of yours, big supporter of yours, and he wanted to be here to introduce you.

I think we really need to be creative about how we put incentives in place.

It is, candidly, I think still an embarrassment in this country that this many years after 9/11, we do not have that fully interoperable, full-functioning public safety spectrum across the whole country.

I want to congratulate my fellow Virginian, Rob McDowell, on his nomination for a second term.

Making sure we get it right is terribly important.

I do think we have a chance to kind of reestablish the stature and prominence of the FCC.

We have no congestion in the Greater Capital Area.

Well, Mr. Allison, I hope that would be the case. My only hesitancy--and it is one of the reasons why we actually put forward legislation, which I, again, would love to not have the need for--is that we have heard that response from every…

I can tell you, at least, again, in my State, an awful lot of folks think that we have taken these funds and basically either thrown them into the wind or flushed them down the toilet.

The status of all of the investments we have made with the TARP program.

I just want to get a little further confirmation on that as well.

I would like to see some of the upside here.

As we think about a repayment pattern from the financial institutions that receive TARP funds, we know they want to pay back these dollars.

We were concerned with the fact that 100 percent pay-off on the counterparties with AIG, no haircut taken.

I am just afraid that we may have, in a sense, a false sense of progress because there are people in arrears.

I would love to know how many of those offers have been accepted.

I think the Chairman has raised a good point about perhaps an ombudsman, some kind of appeals or process so that if you cannot get answers, a Web site alone may not be enough.

I have to tell you, folks in my State... would call, and they would then get a basic response that said, 'Well, thanks, but we do not have any of the details ready.'

I want to follow up on Senator Brownback's comments, and one, echoing my other colleagues' concerns about the real human effects these decisions have had upon your dealer networks and their employees and families across the country.

If I would have ever thought in my business life that I would see a group of Senators trying to micro-manage the workings of American industry like GM and Chrysler, I would have said, 'It never could happen.'

I expect that testing to take place elsewhere.