Mark Warner

But one of the things we need to do is make sure that that information that may currently reside in the day-to-day prudential regulator actually would get pushed up and actually shared.

I would like to go back, on my own remaining time, to the notion that the Chairman raised in terms of systemic risk.

We all have been waiting for some time for the release of the so-called stress test results.

I can assure you that not only will Dan bring great professional credentials to this very important position, but also great personal characteristics as well.

I think Dan will be a great addition to the administration.

I am delighted to be here to introduce my good friend, Dan Poneman.

I really do hope we take this opportunity to think beyond the silos within your Department.

I was a big advocate for, thinking it was a great first step and a great way to have a beta test of a new, fairly unrestricted pot of money

I recognize the constraints you are under, but we have to continue making the case that there needs to be additional funding.

I do hope that we will continue to make the case that our current transportation funding sources at the Federal or the State level are basically bankrupt.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman, and let me, first of all, welcome the whole panel and say congratulations on your nominations and hopefully your speedy approvals.

Amen to what you said, but I would hope that those jump-ball dollars that the Department is going to allocate soon, that you look at how the criteria will be established.

I have dealt with State-level transportation challenges, and one of the most frustrating things at a State level is the silo nature of our transportation funding.

Coming from Virginia, which faces some of the most significant transportation challenges in the nation, I understand the critical need to bring our Nation's best thinking to address transportation issues.

I want to introduce and lend my support to Mr. Peter Appel, of Alexandria, Virginia, who has been nominated by President Obama to be the Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) at the U.S. Department…

With Peter's background in technology, rigorous analysis, and innovative problem solving, we look forward to a similar approach which will help our Nation reestablish a sound and effective transportation policy.

What I have believed for some time is that--and this case I think reflects this--as we move toward getting better data...

My understanding, at least, is that while you have some amount of established protocols within certain specialties, that the evolution of or the growth of evidence-based medicine across a variety of specialties and having those protocols…

I would like to hear out those arguments because it does seem to me that from at least a broader-based societal standpoint, the outside risk and the downside risk that we as a society, in effect, have taken on by these nonskin in the game…

I do think we need something to make sure the board members don't get captured as quickly and often as they do.

I believe a lot of good things may have come out of Sarbanes-Oxley.

I do think that one of the things Mr. Atkins said that struck home to me... is over the last 10, 15-plus years, the enormous focus on the equity side as opposed to the debt side.

I wish it was that simple. Perhaps it is, but I would love to hear that thorough debate...

I guess one thing we have had under the Chairman's leadership, we have had a lot of folk come by on this issue of too big to fail.

I think what it does is it speaks eloquently to the need for a systemic regulator, whether it be the Fed or whether it be a committee approach or a new entity that the Fed has some involvement with or not.