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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

As fiduciaries, we would not be doing our jobs if we did not consider environmental and social and governance risks when making investment decisions.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

This is a taxpayer-funded effort to run interference for the oil and gas industries, prevent investors from doing their jobs.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

I hope sent a message that bipartisanship may actually emerge in this area.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

Companies that do not manage their environmental risk, their labor risk, their consumer protection risks appropriately open up investors, including retail investors, pensioners, retirees to financial losses.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

I personally regret that Senator Braun has chosen to term limit himself because I really value him as a colleague.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

the message that I want to deliver, because people need to understand it, is that these attacks against ESG investing are based on a fallacy.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 9, 2023

From our perspective, I think there is no national lead ban on hunting on Federal lands.

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

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

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

Make no mistake, it doesn't matter who you vote for, what state you live in, or what you make.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· May 4, 2023

Frankly, I think the American public is appalled that they are looking at CEOs of Silicon Valley Bank getting $10 million, walking out with even more in terms of stock, and nothing can be done.

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

MAGA Republican's dangerous bill poses a terrible choice. Default on our financial obligations, causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy, or gut basic federal programs essential to our economic strength causing widespread pain and…

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

They seek to cause chaos. Not coincidentally this serves the eccentric and secretive billionaires and polluting industries who are the Republican party's funders.

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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 4, 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 4, 2023

If we end up going into this Republican threatened default, and all the pain and calamity that all of the witnesses have forecast comes to pass, people in America are going to want to know who is responsible.

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

That is the Default on America Act that House Republicans are taking our economy hostage for.

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

MAGA Republican's dangerous bill poses a terrible choice. Default on our financial obligations, causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy, or gut basic federal programs essential to our economic strength causing widespread pain and…

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