Mark Warner

A second OIG report was issued in December 2019 because 'the Office of Inspector General (OIG) received notice of additional canine deaths that warrant[ed] immediate Department action.'

I think we need it sooner than later.

I believe, in -- in the whole Congress. The vice chairman and I have asked for a briefing of the damages that could have arisen from mishandling of this information.

I think it is incumbent, as soon as we get approval...

I think we still have new challenges in terms of nation-state challenges, Russia and, longer term, a technology competition with China.

I think the threat of terror has diminished.

I respect our Department of Justice. I respect the FBI. I think they are trying, under extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to get it right.

If there are penetration of signals intelligence, literally years of work could be destroyed.

I think we need that assessment to make sure if, on an ongoing...

If some of these documents involve human intelligence, and that information got out, people will die.

I believe it's our congressional duty to have that oversight.

I look forward to passing this important piece of legislation that will help fight inflation, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, reduce carbon emissions, and lower healthcare costs for millions of Americans.

I think all four of your technical amendments dramatically improve the bill and clarify some of the misreadings.

I think some of the commentary out there, frankly, is off base.

I want to thank you and your colleague, Jack Goldsmith, as well as all the other law professors, for your help in drafting the ECRA.

I know this is not the popular perception that Americans have, we have had a pretty good run of bipartisan activity in the Senate.

I think we all, or most of us on the Committee support that National Housing Trust Fund, but the erratic level of funding to that...

Perhaps no responsibility is more important than ensuring lawful whistle-blowers are aware of their right to provide information about wrongdoing.

Intelligence Community IGs are important source of independent oversight of the Intelligence Community.

We've got an awful lot of them in my state and I think they do generally good work and they need to be afforded the protections.

Congratulations on your nomination to be the Inspector General for the National Reconnaissance Office.

I think it is critically important from a competitiveness standpoint, national security standpoint, that we go ahead and pass the CHIPS legislation.

I look forward to working with you and, again, I appreciate your prior experience working with Metro.

My hope is, since we have made that transference--and, obviously, we have got to make sure Phase 2 is safe, but that we do that safety assessment is as timely a manner as possible.

I just want to say I know many of us recognized your enormous service yesterday, and we really appreciate it and so much today, the day after your 50th birthday, appreciate the fact that you are presiding over this august body. I yield the…