"Going forward, we must make sure that we learn the lessons from withdrawal, that we work across agencies in an entirety-of-government approach to ensure that we maintain the capabilities necessary to ..."
"Our ports are the backbone to our economy. Any way to grow our shipping capacity and ensure our supply chain is strong is a smart and important investment in our economy."
"These falsehoods are being amplified by irresponsible politicians and fringe media figures, many of whom gladly take financial support from the oil and gas industry at the same time."
"This year, I signed an appropriation letter asking for $10 million in additional funding over FY23 levels for North Atlantic right whale conservation."
"Letting multinational corporations shift profits to tax havens leaves a trillion dollar bill for everyone else to pay."
"I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics."
"Congress can do and must do more to help prevent unnecessary whale deaths and support the industries trying to comply with regulation."
"Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion."
"I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code."
"Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience."
"Thank you for the opportunity to offer testimony to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and elevate Rhode Islanders' priorities as you prepare to reauthorize federal aviation programs."
"So, when it comes to right whale deaths, we must focus on the real problem, based on the data and not based on conspiracies spread by the fossil fuel industry and its allies."
"I think we have a problem of economic injustice."
"So this combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of tr..."
"Senator Whitehouse's proposal and his sponsored legislation shows one promising path forward."
"One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals."
"the fact is that it was Donald Trump's Taliban deal that set the chaos in motion."
"Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?"
