Mark Warner

When we criticize China I want to make clear my beef is with the Communist Party, Xi Jinping's leadership.

We need those black lung benefits.

They could launch at any point. Nothing I heard today dissuaded me from that.

I think huge opportunities with CRA reform.

I would say to my friend from Louisiana I think your appropriate admonition about only dead fish go with the flow, maybe that could be applied to both sides on our partisan basis too.

Would not a massive cyberattack that could potentially bring down part of our financial system...

I think she has done a great job on the Federal Reserve.

If that Administration had responded quicker we might not be in as deep a hole as we were.

Will you commit to work with me, and others on this Committee, on a bipartisan way...

I think it's really important that when we talk about China as well, we put that extra asterisk in there, that our beef is with the CCP and leadership of Xi Jinping and it's not with the Chinese people or the Chinese Diaspora, wherever…

That this part of the law was significantly more protective of civil liberties than grand jury subpoenas.

I think before 9/11, there was an inability to connect the dots.

Our focus was on trying to increase transparency.

I think the sooner you get into this job, the better for DHS, the better for our I&A, and the better for our country.

People guard information, and don't think 'sharing first.'

I hope as much as possible can be released as well.

I appreciate your willingness to re-enter government service.

I would just ask that we--and we can continue this offline. But, you know, for those entities, and private capital that wants to come into these institutions with no intention of trying to take over control, whether we set up a different…

The pursuit of the Fed's goals will need to take these differences into account.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Blunt for the way that you have conducted both the initial investigation and how the Rules Committee has really stepped up in terms of the assessment of making sure we protect the Capitol on an…

I think we have gotten better, but we still have room to grow in terms of the intelligence community's willingness to share information on a regular basis.

It is my understanding your concern with the nominee is not about the nominee's qualifications.

I am very concerned, sitting from the intel standpoint, that a lot of this is being used for illegal and illicit purposes.

Well, thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for giving me the flexibility to go from security clearances to K-9 units.

Again, one of the things we are working through is this issue of reciprocity.