Mark Warner

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I apologize on the front end that these questions may have been addressed...

I think you are going to find a lot of these programs you are going to want to continue, and even my colleagues that might not have supported the Recovery Act, they are going to want to make sure, as I, that we have real accountability…

I commend you for doing this, but I do not think some of your other colleagues who have equal challenge, particularly with the Recovery Act funds, have put in place this same kind of oversight.

I also believe, as I think you appropriately pointed out, should America move away from coal, India and China are not.

I share, like Senator Cardin, the belief that nuclear power has to be part of the mix.

We may have policy differences. We may have, I think equally on both sides of the aisle, concerns about some of the deficits.

At some point, in my mind, at least, it needs to be part of the discussion.

I would argue that there needs to be some societal understanding that there is an individual responsibility to start planning for some level of long-term care when you turn 21 or turn 25.

I would just make a comment that we would never have had a wireless system in this country without some governmental entity setting the standards.

I think what we are talking about is ways to get a co-investment with the Government and the private sector.

Just to be clear again, so that if the Government came in with this recapitalization, they could then clear a secondary market of these securities.

I for one think, you know, these are projects that are ready to go, and with the appropriate risk assessment...

I know we pressed the new economic team of the President to do that, but this is the first time I have actually seen this kind of data out there.

I am really happy to see your presentation because one of the things that has driven me crazy... is the lack of transparency.

Irrespective of one's opinion of the President's reliance on Article II authority to justify the TSP, those companies that assisted with the TSP did so in good faith and based upon the written-- I repeat: ``written representations''-- from…

Mr. President, this is one of the most important subjects I have had the privilege of addressing in my 30-some years in the Senate. I and many others will rise in connection with this bill in support of the FISA Amendments Act. It is a…

I think the professional soldiers like McChrystal did their job. McChrystal used to come every morning that the Senate was in session, at 8 o'clock, and brief Senators in S. 407. A very fine officer. He has been in Iraq now--well, I don't…

I say to my good friend, where do we get the money to perfect sequestration? That troubles me the most. I do not think science has proven that we can actually capture the CO2, cost effectively transfer it, and put it safely into some type…

I also say to my friend from New Hampshire, I call to his attention section 434, in which Congress has oversight on the use of these funds. Congress can change them.

The money that comes in through the bill is to be distributed primarily to companies, entities developing new technology as to how to solve the very question the Senator raises; namely, will technology be available for the sequestration…

I reply to my good friend, your plan is just as subject to the calls in here that it is a tax as is ours. But you send it back to the taxpayers. What we do is to give it to research and technology to try and improve the efficiency of the…

But the revenues you gain by your bill, wouldn't they be subject to the same accusation? Is it a tax? I think it is a false accusation, but I think your plan is basically a part of our plan. If they call our plan a tax, yours is a tax; am…

There was a slow roll. I immediately went back to consult with my leadership, and that is not the case. The reason for not going to amendments today seems to me to be a valid one; that is, a number of Senators wish to speak. The list is up…

Nevertheless, you omitted any reference to the fact that Congress has a hand. If you look at the amendment I have thrown in, the President of the United States, at any time he or she desires, can go in and change that. So it is not as if…

The point is, if we look at section 435 of the bill, it says that chart the Senator has up there has to be approved by the Congress.