Mark Warner

Is there any ability to look at FEMA assistance or other assistance?

It's stunning to me that we have people going in and testing, and having symptoms from going into these homes to do the tests.

I guess one question I would have is--and I think Senator Nelson is asking the right questions, in terms of finding the analysis, the source, and how bad it is.

This is a health disaster, and it is--Mr. Kampf indicated--a financial disaster.

So, I'll expect a report back on--when that investigating team is in Virginia and the results of that investigation?

This is a national problem, and we expect a solution where all communities affected are going to be taken into consideration.

This is not a Florida- or Louisiana-only problem.

We all acknowledge, we are in the 100-year flood.

But by implication, then the taxpayer should be expected to continue to honor all of the AIG obligations, 100 cents on the dollar, for as long as we are in AIG.

I just do not believe that the reaction of the market would be so traumatic at this point if we sent out warning signals.

I think we could get it through very quickly.

I am very, very troubled by your comments on AIG and our obligation to maintain the 100 cents on the dollar in the counterparties.

But my hope would be that there are other options, other than simply selling them back to the institution.

The faster we can get that out with more specificity, the better.

And will a piece of that detail be any--it will be the expectation, but will there actually be a requirement...

I want to go back to where, actually, Chairman Dodd started the questioning about the issue of how we can help the small businesses.

As somebody who has spent 20 years in the telecom sector before I also made the transition to government, I can't think of a more critical position than yours.

I will echo your comments that he has been able to negotiate those waters and move us forward as a region.

I think, is going to bring a great set of skills to a new position, someone that has enormous potential.

I do get reluctant at times when everybody says we all want it but we don't want to pay for it.

I don't think this is a, as a well-informed citizen, I don't think I fully appreciated, potentially, what jeopardy we are placing all of our flying public in if we don't act aggressively.

I'm not new to these issues, and I want to follow up on some of Senator DeMint's comments about the sense that there's agreement around NextGen.

I would love to see their sense of whether expedited on that would make some sense.

It might force some of our banks to move quicker into which assets they might be willing to dispose of.

There is a great deal of interest in taking on the comprehensive.