the most powerful weapon I have, the most powerful piece of equipment, is the trust of the community.
the budget process has become meaningless, and I am sick of it.
I guess as the only Democrat present today I am standing in for our Ranking Member, and I would like to make a brief opening statement, and ...
The danger, of course, is that the big, powerful groups that throw their weight around here would try to co-opt that process so that it once...
The Clean Water Act and clean water regulation has, for always since back when it was a common law doctrine and through the establishment by...
I am from Rhode Island. We are a downstream State. Coastal States are downstream States.
Without this, we have nothing?
Once again we are here to consider a Republican attack against environmental protection. It is becoming a recurring theme.
It is just legally wrong.
Attacks on this rule from my Republican colleagues have been extreme and seemingly based more on government conspiracy theories than on the ...
The so-called Federal Water Quality Protection Act, an ironic name if there ever was one, would prohibit EPA from finalizing any change to i...
Contrary to what my Republican colleagues claim, this rule is good economic news in Rhode Island and probably across the Country.
I think the Framers intended for the legislative branch to--although we have a coequal branch or coequal setup of checks and balances where ...
I happen to disagree. And I'm one of those who feels that a strong government can promote prosperity for all.
I would also note that, of late, our legislative branch has been gummed up. It hasn't really been working.
There's a reason why the legislative branch is the first branch dealt with in our Constitution in Article I.
I think a lot of us are concerned about where this dynamic scoring issue goes.
So coastal States like Rhode Island would take the hit.
