Mark Warner

I used to be governor of Virginia and we were very proud of the fact we kept that AAA bond rating.

We do need a rules-based approach that looks at these foreign technologies that pose national security.

I used to be governor of Virginia and we were very proud of the fact we kept that AAA bond rating.

We do need a rules-based approach that looks at these foreign technologies that pose national security.

I used to be governor of Virginia and we were very proud of the fact we kept that AAA bond rating.

The enforcement actions that are currently at regulators' disposal do not take into account oversight responsibilities...

Would the absence, in the case of Silicon Valley Bank, of not having a chief risk officer for 8 months... would that have not been a board responsibility to hold management accountable?

The number of notices that the regulators had the bank management had that things were going awry and the fact that nobody acted on those is extraordinarily problematic.

I do know, and I appreciate the fact that we need to move on some of this legislation.

I think this was a disaster that could have been avoided, on Silicon Valley Bank in particular.

But don't you think even if you get the information right, the amount of time that that information stays right is going to be a short term?

I do think, and again we are--I may take a little issue with Dr. Rideout's position, because I do think you have to get the information right.

I think we always knew it was a huge issue, but in a post-COVID world, I do not know any family, including mine, that does not have some challenges around mental health.

It was used to get out the vote as opposed to what they said they were going to do, and that was provide PPE due to COVID.

It is a terrible idea.

Let us come up with an electronic way to transmit and receive ballots.

Thank you for giving me this chance to testify.

If we can get, again, first-generation, first-time homebuyers that ability to build equity twice, that then helps in terms of the ability to not get deep in debt when your kid needs to go to college.

We have a huge racial wealth gap in this country, roughly 10 to 1 White-Black ratio, a lot of that due to home ownership differentials.

I ask that all of us would put aside whether we're on the Left or the Right, and think about helping more Americans achieve the American dream.

Let's craft laws and policies that help pave the pathway to home ownership.

We do need to do regulatory streamlining and put more tools in the tool chest on how we get this right.

It's time for a new approach. An approach that gives Americans who have lost hope a roadmap to opportunity and prosperity.

Shouldn't we also allow those employees who have student debt to go ahead and qualify as well?

I am going to hold you to it.