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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jun 4, 2025

Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jun 3, 2025

I’m not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about $1 trillion? I believe $1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion. That’s a little bit off from $1 trillion.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jun 2, 2025

President Trump has ushered America into a golden age of public corruption.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 27, 2025

We write to ask whether Treasury has conducted any analyses on the effect cutting up to 40% of the IRS workforce will have on revenue collection, customer service, modernization efforts, and the share of audits comprised of corporations…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 20, 2025

Republicans just overruled the Parliamentarian, violated the plain text of the Congressional Review Act, changed the Clean Air Act, and broke the filibuster.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 20, 2025

The problem with your assertion here today is that it is belied by your own employees’ sworn statements in court and by the decision of the Department of Justice to admit that what you say isn’t true.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

We are here today debating and wasting time on a ridiculous bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico when the American people want us to be focused on real issues that impact their lives. Prices are still too high. Donald Trump's tariffs are…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

first, both of my colleagues from California are here, and I want to thank them for coming to the floor today to talk about this important matter in which Republicans want to appease their donors, and they want to break basically two…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

I am actually happy to yield to Senator Schiff from the California delegation. OK. He is happy with me going, so I will go. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

I am also concerned about the Trump administration's dubious creation of ``National Defense Areas'' along the southern border in the last several weeks. These National Defense Areas, first designated in New Mexico and later expanded into…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

I rise to address President Trump's dangerous and inappropriate use of the U.S. military to carry out his immigration enforcement campaign. Before I discuss the Trump administration's spending nearly half a billion dollars and sending tens…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 7, 2025

I come to the Senate floor today for the 298th time in my ``Time to Wake Up'' speech series to once again call attention to the looming climate calamity. I went last week to the Our Ocean Conference--a conference founded by the United…

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 7, 2025

I thank Ms. Jacobs for her long body of work championing children around the world, particularly on the issue of malnutrition. I will continue to stand in this Chamber every day we are in session and speak on this topic until funding for…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 6, 2025

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. H.J. Res. 61

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 6, 2025

I rise for the fifth time to bring attention to the Trump administration's failure to restore funding for food aid for malnourished children, despite their promise to do so. I speak today about the biology of hunger. A 2-year-old child may…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 6, 2025

In yet another of many attempts to unravel protections for human health and the environment, and in their endless quest to accommodate the country's biggest polluters, Republicans in the Senate are seeking congressional disapproval for…

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Gabe Amo
@gabeamo· RI· May 5, 2025

As many of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus have laid out, Donald Trump has failed the American people. That is why I am grateful to my colleagues, Representatives Kamlager-Dove and Brown, for leading this Special Order…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 5, 2025

I am pleased to supplement the remarks of our distinguished leader with respect to Social Security. Rhode Island has I believe the largest participation per capita in Social Security in the country. Social Security is what brought American…

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