I think we both agree we want to keep America the capital of capital formation for the whole world. We don't want this to migrate to London or Shanghai or elsewhere around the world. We also know 18 months after we came to the precipice of…

MARK WARNER, Virginia

I have to say--and I know some of my colleagues were here earlier. Before I came to this body, I spent a career as a CEO of a business and a CEO of a State. While I have great respect for this body and the rules and traditions of this…

It is ridiculous that 18 months into this President's Administration, we have so many senior members of this Administration still waiting to see whether they are going to be able to serve.

If you take away Minority resistance, the role the Majority Leader and his senior leadership plays vastly changes in the whole game.

I have enormous respect for you, and I could live with the situation as long as we got rid of the secret holds.

It is a sham to me when we have the time of the Senate delayed to go through all this process and then time and again these judges are confirmed, and others are confirmed, at north of 90 votes.

The focus has been legislation. I do not think the Nation has been diminished.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to try bring a little--while respectful of the Senate's traditions and respectful of Minority rights--a little more rationality to this process.

I give my full-fledged endorsement to [John Gibney].

I am proud to note that Mr. Gibney is a product of Virginia's educational institutions.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Senator Klobuchar, Senator Sessions, Senator Grassley, Senator Coburn, for this opportunity.

In John Gibney, we've got somebody who I think is a lawyer's lawyer, somebody who understands those challenges.

I think, in short, the chief executive ought to have their team in place.

The fact that this hearing is already being held, we are grateful for the speedy, expeditious manner in which you are addressing this issue.

I continue to be impressed by the caliber of the candidates that the Virginia bar has been putting forward.

I cannot in any way explain to folks in Virginia, why in a kind of a secret way someone can put somebody's future on hold indefinitely makes any sense.

We recommended him to the President for nomination in June of last year.

I think they are. One of the things that we have--we commented on in our reports is that TSA needs to do a better job of interacting with our transit stakeholders.

How do we get milestones and metrics that we can use to measure your performance, other than the avoidance of a catastrophic event?

I am very concerned about the safety of Metro.

As somebody who's grappled with these regional issues as Governor and now Senator, to actually see there's an advantage of this three-part jurisdiction sometimes is harder to see.

We perhaps need to spend more time dealing with the emergency response.

I thank the Senator from Colorado for his comments and his great perspective on this issue, and again, part of what he is raising is that we want to consider the rules and traditions. Today, we have all these freshmen and sophomore Members…

What we have heard in the case of Pennsylvania, as we heard from all of us, is frustration. As the Senator from Colorado said, folks who have legitimate complaints about an individual, whether they are a judge or a Presidential appointee…