Mark Warner

I am glad to see my friend and colleague, Senator Gillibrand, is here to introduce Mr. Hochberg.

Having a healthy multifamily business is important.

I do think there may have been a moment in time when the macro effect to the overall housing market of having a more aggressive standpoint in terms of principal reduction could have jumpstarted the housing recovery quicker.

I think REOs have got to be one of your tools in the tool kit.

I really want to commend you on your efforts there.

I just think it is--I think that we do need to remember, this is not where the problem originated.

I think for a while, we had this sense of, after the immediate crisis, that we, in a sense, said, do no more harm as legislators, and candidly, I think it took a lot longer for this issue to work through the system than any of us had hoped…

I agree, it is not an either/or. You need a stable revenue source.

We have to have infrastructure that is competitive with the rest of the world

Something like that would certainly help provide another opportunity to advance the infrastructure that is woefully needed

This would only be something that would have first-dollar private capital loss. So any backstop would be far down the line.

The ability to get 25- to 40-year financing that would be part of an infrastructure bank is, I think, terribly important.

We have to protect taxpayer investment when we need this infrastructure investment, if we want to avoid future Solyndras

I think many of us point to the success of TIFIA as one of our transportation programs, which, by the way, is a record with no loss of governmental funds.

A big reason for that----was because we had an incredible port that we made investments in, that we realized, with the changes coming in the Panama Canal, was going to be an asset not just for Virginia but for much of the East Coast.

The proposal the President has put out... could generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion to $500 billion worth of infrastructure investment.

You may have heard at some point the description of Virginia being known as the best-managed state and the best state for business.

Sri is exceptionally well qualified to carry out the duties and responsibilities of a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals.

I think the President has made a great choice in nominating Marilyn Tavenner to be head of CMS.

I believe we need a balanced approach. The notion that we can continue to take away revenue sources is not a responsible way to address this budget. I urge my colleagues to support amendment No. 693.

I know the answer to this because we have talked about this in the past. We do not have a complete list of all of the various programs.

I thank the Senator from Virginia. I ask unanimous consent to engage in colloquy with my friend, the Senator from Virginia, the Senator from Hawaii, and the Senator from New Hampshire as well. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without…

I would ask the Senator, I know he has seen and is very familiar with these installations and their families because of his tenure as Governor. You may also want to make the point: in an area such as Hampton Roads where you put these folks…

I actually believe there may be something earlier on in the chain where there might be this kind of common information transparency platform that would be totally separate from any kind of Government backstop that currently Fannie and…

The more bipartisan consensus you can find from outside expertise to see, again, how it would be funded