Mark Warner

The reality of the Fed moving in a meaningful way on these questions I think has been less than the rhetoric.

I just want to again say thank you to so many of my Republican colleagues, frankly led by Senator Crapo, who helped really work to get that $12 billion.

I know Senator Cortez Masto, this is something she has worked on, Senator Van Hollen has worked on.

One of the reasons we have tailoring is because we did the reforms in 2155.

I do think the sophistication of some of the misinformation, disinformation, I do think we have to look at those election workers themselves being victims of some of this misinformation, disinformation.

I do think while we cannot mandate, you know, a single type of ballot, there ought to be some level of incentives...

I really do hope, whether it comes out of the Chairwoman in the Rules Committee's efforts or out of this bipartisan effort that we get that Electoral Count Act reform legislation to the President as quickly as possible.

I think we all are a little concerned with some of the folks who have been election deniers who are being nominated around the country, some as recently as this week.

This misinformation, disinformation plague is happening across democracies everywhere...

Our beef is not with 1.4 billion Chinese people created in the image of God. It's with the Chinese Communist Party and their malevolence and their export of surveillance-state autocracies and their genocide in Xinjiang and more and more.

I don't think we can rely on that to save us, but I do think it's a factor in what's going on now.

I want to protect semiconductors because that's the hill I want to die on.

The Chinese for the last 15 to 20 years have used the international standards regime as a trade weapon.

China does have a deliberate, published national economic and national security strategy to achieve the very levels of domination.

Let me be clear at the outset. When I talk about China, my beef is with the Communist Party of China.

There needs to be some discussion about where we want to go.

I do think, you know, having a couple of years of COVID and the fact that there may be Members of Congress that are not as familiar with the Smithsonian...

Well, I would just say Chair Klobuchar and Ranking Member Blunt have been great at bringing Members of Congress.

I think the great strength of the Smithsonian is that we give different portals into what it means to be an American.

I appreciate how difficult it has been to manage the institutions through COVID.

I have worked since then with my great friends, Tim Kaine, to make sure we actually take out of Statutory Hall the statue of Robert E. Lee and replace it with hopefully Barbara Johns.

I hope we can still put some of those plans in place going forward, so if we ever have the kind of crisis we had around a COVID-type experience we have a more efficient system in place.

I think I am paying a fair share, but I agree with the Chairman.

What we really have in this country is a supply issue in affordable housing.

We have got to find a way that some of the wealthiest Americans in our country do pay their fair share.