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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 12, 2022

But what struck me is that the production is not even up to the levels that they have set for themselves.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 12, 2022

So far, it has been a very large array of trespassing and glorified trespassing prosecutions of people who actually broke into the building. But it has not gone into the various rings that might have supported it or into the key fund…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 12, 2022

I believe, Governor Brainard, that 30 percent of the consumer price index is based on housing prices.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 12, 2022

One of the things we have seen recently is a trend for private equity to buy up lots of homes.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 11, 2022

with my distinguished colleague from Utah here, I would just--before I get to my remarks--suggest that there may be an exception to his rule that when a piece of legislation is only sponsored by Members of one party it can't be serious…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 11, 2022

We are going to have to have a bit of a conversation about why 97.7 percent goes to inland and about 2.3 percent goes to coastal of that $1.72 billion.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 11, 2022

Of your $1.72 billion, 97.7 percent will go inland. You do understand that part of the coastal damage that you are referring to, part of the climate risk that you referred to, is sea levels rising, worse coastal storms, and resulting…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 10, 2022

the issue of climate change is absolutely critical. It is an economic issue.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 10, 2022

I would hope that we could continue that type of progress, and I know you will be sensitive to that, going forward.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 10, 2022

I believe that President Biden has made two excellent choices, yourself and Governor Brainard.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 9, 2022

We can no longer go in an indefinite mode of waiting to find what will please our recalcitrant senators. At some point, when people are negotiating things, they need to put forward their position, something that they actually will agree to.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jan 6, 2022

a year ago, thousands of supporters of then- President Donald Trump--marching under banners supporting secession, conspiracy theories, and White supremacy--violently stormed the U.S. Capitol and breached the Senate and House Chambers in…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 5, 2022

So far, it has been a very large array of trespassing and glorified trespassing prosecutions of people actually broke into the building. But it has not gone into the various rings that might have supported that or into the key fund-raisers…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jan 4, 2022

Sweeping up low-level players, while ignoring the kingpins upstream, isn`t a full investigation.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Jan 3, 2022

It cannot be the case that two senators care more deeply about preserving Senate tradition than preserving our democracy, because they’ll preserve a filibuster in what kind of country?

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