Mark Warner

I actually thought my license to marry people extended beyond Governor.

The quality of that broadband from southwest Virginia, or West Virginia, or even the rural parts of Delaware is going to improve dramatically.

I think that reflects Tom Carper's approach to people and politics.

I learned early on the importance of building good relationships and finding common ground.

The challenge of climate change is a clear and present danger.

I want to thank again Senator Capito and Senator Carper for their many years of leadership on issues like broadband.

The Senator is entirely correct in his analysis of the application of the bill, and further, I believe, and Treasury has indicated, that this would also be true for individuals engaged in staking their digital assets for the purpose of…

We can't out-China China, let's face it. But we don't want to.

The Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese government, will use any means licit or illicit to pursue their China First policy.

We can no longer allow China to weaponize its market, connecting China's reciprocity and sharing of scientific data to its access to U.S. institutions and big science facilities as the leverage point.

This is not about the Chinese people or especially not about Chinese-Americans, okay?

I think in 2021 and going forward we need to think about technology-based alliances, and those alliances ought to be based upon democracies who share those same sets of values and goals of democracy.

It's a competition between democracy on the one hand and totalitarianism on the other.

As long as you do not surrender to... human rights abuses...

If we do not highlight and address China's policies that violate global norms and our values, we give credence to a system that undermines fairness, openness, and human rights.

Today, the Chinese Communist Party has more control over what Americans can say, what we can hear, what we can read, what we can watch than any foreign government has ever had in our history.

Today, the Committee will examine the counterintelligence threats posed by the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party.

This beef, our concern, our challenge, is with the Communist Party of China and its leadership.

I think we've got a much better system than they have--when it's working, properly when it's working well.

This is something I am very concerned about.

I was very proud of, and again, worked with many Members of the Committee, particularly Senator Crapo, on, was making sure that we make additional investments in CDFIs and MDIs.

I think the panel is dramatically underestimating the potential threat that poses in terms of China's overall plan of technology dominance.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the fact that you and the Ranking Member are holding this hearing.

I think CBDCs, it is coming.

The threat of our time is China: it poses a strategic threat and economic threat, a technology threat.