Mark Warner

What we have seen in Virginia was this problem dramatically increase over the last decade plus.

It is frankly, to me, an embarrassment that we, the oldest functioning democracy in the world, cannot make these simple fixes.

I guess very quickly--and if you want to submit longer answers as we sort through a solution set--and recognizing the very legitimate concerns Senator Roberts raised that this should not be kind of a one-size-fits-all federal proposition.

Can you wrap up in a minute, because we have a 10:30 fairly hard stop.

I do not agree with my dear friend Senator Roberts that we do not need any federal legislation.

We think competitive grant program, or some of the ideas that Senator Boxer had, but you guys are the experts.

Well, thank all three of you for your comments.

This is not what America should look like on election night.

In Virginia in 2012, we saw folks wait up to five hours in line in America to vote. That is just unacceptable.

You should not have to be a marathon runner. That is not what our founders envisioned.

I enthusiastically support Davita and urge the committee to favorably report her nomination and look forward to working towards her swift confirmation on the Senate floor.

Mr. Chairman, I wish I could be there in person to introduce fellow Virginian and President Obama's nominee to be the Public Printer, Mrs. Davita Vance-Cooks.

Davita is exceptionally well qualified to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Public Printer.

It is a real honor for me to be with my good friend and colleague Tim Kaine to introduce a fellow Virginian as President Obama's nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Hannah Lauck.

I am very proud that the President has nominated her, and she comes with my full 100 percent support.

I appreciate Senator Menendez's work with the Administration in crafting that legislation in a way that was enormously effective.

The risk of legislating right now is that it weakens that coalition.

We do envision the FMIC would be playing, again, a very important role in conjunction with your State insurers to make sure that gets----

I just want to follow up on something that Senator Crapo raised in his line of questioning, which was how do we make sure--

I think Senator Warren has raised, you know, some good components about this, the question about how we get this insurance component piece right.

We would still--the concept of that mutual to service the portion of the market to make sure there is quality of pricing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, echoing what some of my other colleagues have said, thanking you and the Ranking Member for continuing to aggressively move these hearings forward.

I would simply point out as well that there are other proposals out there that get rid of any Government role at all that would require exponentially higher amounts of private capital.

I was hopeful that we could clear 120 MHz in the incentive auction, but now it looks like there will not be more than 84MHz cleared in most markets.

This is an area of more than some interest to me.