Mark Warner

This recommendation was also included in S. 2109, the Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014, introduced on March 11, 2014 by Senator Mark Warner.

I will be very, very brief in mine. And I really appreciate your courtesy for having me back.

There's enormous asset value created by these thousands and thousands of towers.

We have to make sure that we leave behind infrastructure that can mean a 21st century and beyond of sustained growth and leadership in the United States.

When interest rates are at a record low, not to take advantage of trying to get that private capital into our infrastructure projects would be a great, great loss.

I want to echo what Senator Menendez said about FIRPTA. As we think about getting foreign direct investment in job creation, this one should be a no-brainer.

I am feeling younger and younger in this committee.

Better if we call it a financing authority.

I want to commend the President for thinking about this in a more aggressive manner and for the $150 billion he has put in.

It is imperative that we secure passage of IMF legislation now so we can show support for the IMF in this critical moment.

We continue to focus on our central objective: expanding opportunity for all Americans.

I have a bill called the Partnership to Build America Act. It has seven Republicans, five Democrats, and an independent on it.

I believe we are the only industrial nation in the world that does not have an authority or some ability to leverage private capital investment in infrastructure.

We are now seeing...lots of private American capital that does not, cannot, invest in American infrastructure right now because we do not have an infrastructure financing authority.

It is critical that the international community support their efforts to restore economic stability.

The steps Russia has taken to violate Ukraine's sovereignty, Ukraine's territorial integrity, are a breach of international law.

This is too big an asset for what we have right now.

I think showing strong evidence along the path... might make some of more assured.

Madam Chairman, you are on the home stretch.

I think this is a very valid debate.

I think it was good in theory.

In the moments of crisis, the American people are going to expect us from the Congress to react, and chances are, at the end of the day, the public is going to be on the hook anyway.

I think it has been clear that across the panel there was no indication that anybody from the private sector has suggested that there is a credible private sector-only solution here.

We bought ourselves a couple years, but at $17 trillion in debt, a 100-basis-point increase in interest rates adds $120 billion a year.

I commend the President for making a request for $150 billion over 4 years.