Mark Warner

I think increasingly we are seeing investors want to see bottom-line investments.

I think the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needs to be involved in this.

Chairman Xi is not about the good of his people. He's about the good of his party and the way they oppress their people.

This Committee, by default, has become a little bit of the technology committee for the Senate.

I want to be extremely clear about something. As we grapple with the challenges posed by a rising China, our problem is with the Chinese Communist Party, not with the Chinese people or the Chinese Diaspora globally.

I was dismayed last year when the Director of National Intelligence refused to appear in public before our Committee for this hearing.

I believe--my personal belief is--that the United States and the west writ large was a little bit asleep at the switch.

I want to caution our fellow Americans that false equivalence only breeds submission, division, and hate, and plays right into Beijing's hands.

It is important that this hearing be conducted publicly and openly to ensure that Americans have a good understanding from a trusted, objective source of the challenges and also the opportunities we face as a Nation.

The long-term technology race we face with China is the biggest existential national security threat we face.

Moving forward, bringing the notarization process into the 21st century seems like the right direction to move in.

One of the things I hope to work with you on--and one of the disappointments in the March package we just completed was that we did not do the full level of IT modernization.

I know, with the pandemic, it has been an incredibly challenging year.

I believe Senator Casey asked if you had any idea of the backlog.

The 2017 bill did not get it right.

The important thing is the competitiveness of our location as a place to do things, and that requires an adequate funding of the state.

I look forward to working with you and Senator Brown as we try to get this international corporate structure right.

If we are going to stay competitive with China, for example, which is making record investments in next-generation technology, how are we going to be able do that in any kind of fair way with these kind of revenue levels?

I think there is room for a lot more tax revenue.

I have great respect for my friend Senator Toomey, but I have got to tell you, in the last presentation, there was some cherry-picking going on.

I think it makes sense to start there. I think we do have to look at the corporate tax rate, which at 21 percent is too low.

For our economy to remain competitive in the 21st century, do we need to use the levers available to make sure companies get back to investing in human beings?

BlackRock came out last night saying they think we ought to have mandatory financial reporting on environmental risks.

These institutional investors find that as they look at the long-term financial risk... climate is providing a long-term financial risk.

When we fail to have metrics that are actually commonly measurable between companies, we put American companies at a disadvantage.