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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 4, 2023

275 out of 315 pages of the dirty Default on America Bill are devoted to giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 4, 2023

do not let Speaker McCarthy's partisan, hostage taking win the day, and lose the 21st Century.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 4, 2023

Come to the table. Work with us to simply pay our country's bills like we have so many times before.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 4, 2023

my hard earned experience tells me that when the Republican Party acts on pollution related and corruption related issues, the Party acts as the glove for fossil fuels dark hand.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 4, 2023

House Republicans have armed the default hand grenade, and pulled the pin, and have it in their hands, threatening to blow it up with all of the consequences that each of you have forecast, and the question is for whom?

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

We recommend that the committee advance this legislation expeditiously.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

It has been extremely important for people who are in recovery to be able to talk to their peer recovery coaches and to the people who are providing them treatment.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

We recommend that the committee incentivize primary care to adopt and implement the Collaborative Care Model.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

If we wanted to exert pressure on countries like China and India to move off of fossil fuels and to accelerate their transition to clean energy, what U.S. policy would most likely accomplish that?

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

Make no mistake, it doesn't matter who you vote for, what state you live in, or what you make. If House Republicans get their way it is going to make your life worse.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

It would be fair to describe that as crashing the American solar industry.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

The Default on America Act doesn't even protect veterans healthcare, one of our fundamental obligations to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

For the record, the MAGA extremists in the House who were essential to McCarthy's speakership have said that nothing less than the Default on America Option will pass.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 3, 2023

We recommend that the committee incentivize primary care to adopt and implement the Collaborative Care Model.

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