Mark Warner

Let me finish the statement, and I will yield the floor-- a comprehensive bill that will work to the satisfaction of a majority of the people here. For example, you talk about this board, seven men. Let's say there might be a woman or two…

Because our colleagues are listening to these statistics, I think we better with greater specificity explain from where those numbers are coming. The Senator made a comment about the possible increase in the cost of gas. But is that not…

I wish you well in this latest chapter, but I also commend you for the forthright manner with which you have always come forward in this body at any time. If there is an ounce of reduction in the tremendous energy you apply to your work…

I am proud to note that on the Webb bill I think it remains correct at this time that there are 11 Republican Senators who are cosponsors of the bill. This clearly indicates that Senator Webb has devised legislation which is bipartisan…

I say to my good friend and the leader of this effort, and Senator Hagel, let's clarify what I recommend we consider. That is the insertion of a provision, if it is so decided by Senator Webb, on transferability, which would be for an…

I admire the Senator's willingness to accept that. It was my hope that perhaps Senators could have worked together with those who sponsored the bill we just voted to table. But certainly Republicans exercised their right to have this vote…

I stand before this Senate, which I have been in now almost 30 years, with a great sense of humility. I simply say that I would not be here had it not been for previous GI bills. I volunteered and served in the last year of World War II as…

I commend him for this initiative, but I hope he says ``oil and gas'' because off the east coast there is an abundance of gas, as shown by the previous studies. As he says, they have to be brought up to date. Do let us invoke gas because…

As a Senator from Virginia, I am proud to have the CIA principal office in my State. I have been working with them for 30- some-odd years. I have gotten to know many of them through the years. They are not people who would set out to…

I couldn't agree more. Furthermore, the service they are doing by virtue of this voluntarism directly contributes to the safety and the welfare of the men and women in the Armed Forces who are engaged in harm's way beyond our shores.

I think that is an important reference point. Further, I say to my colleague, the committee's liability provision in the matters pending before this Senate today extends only to civil-- I underline civil--liability protection for those…

I thank my colleague. He said the committee ``concluded.'' It concluded by the manifestation of a vote of 13 to 2, so that an overwhelming majority of the committee, bipartisan, made this decision.

For purposes of the record, I do not claim the credit. I was but one of many who worked on the concept of that great program. I found in this town, and as I know the Senator does likewise, the less credit you try and take, the more…

$1,450 Mark Warner (D-VA) (2008)

I strongly support the McConnell-Lieberman amendment. I hope that will be voted on very shortly. I do believe, in all sincerity, your amendment would send a conflicting message. That message could be exceedingly troublesome. People don't…

I wish to assure my colleague from Oklahoma that this is a matter I personally have discussed with Senator McCain many times. He would hope that the committee in the coming year would address, once again, the amendment and the…

I wish to add our respective wives who have spent long hours waiting for us as we have traveled so many times in these almost 30 years to places all over the world together and left them at home, and many nights late here. They have been a…

Interesting, but it is important we constantly reiterate the message there is no military solution. As you well know in all the hearings of the Armed Services Committee, every uniformed officer has told us that straightforwardly. They are…

I felt it imperative there not be a moment's gap in the Navy for the new Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Roughead, who is in this group of nominations confirmed by the Senate, and that he be in position to assume the full…

If I might add, on our most recent trip visiting Iraq, you went out of your way--as a matter of fact, I joined you--in not only meeting with representatives of these Christian minorities who had been persecuted through the years, but then…

If you want to take those provisions out and make it a freestanding amendment, I would be supportive of modifying it.

I acknowledge that, yes, I did conceive that idea, and successfully, with the help of Senator Byrd and others, got that legislation through. But that was for a tightly defined purpose within a prescribed short period of time. This one, I…

But it is--we are outsourcing the work of the Congress, and, most specifically, outsourcing the work of our Armed Services Committee. That is the thing that concerns me.

I am pleased, if and when we get to the vote, to cast a vote in favor of this because I think it is an important amendment. Also, if I may say, it reflects a goal that I and many others have had for a long time; namely, to have a showing…

Lastly, when we look at the enormity of the sacrifices of our country over these many years now--most notably the tragic loss of some 3,000, almost 3,800 individuals and many more wounded, and expenditures of so much of the taxpayers'…