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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 19, 2023

It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 19, 2023

It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 19, 2023

I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 19, 2023

I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 19, 2023

the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

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.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

Hear me now, when it comes to racist and antisemitic and anti-government violence, there are not fine people on both sides.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

The January 6 rioters are not political prisoners, they are criminals who attacked police officers.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

To run an unjust tax system that creates bigger deficits for the sake of wealthy political influence is not a good place for the United States of America to be.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

On behalf of the majority leader, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following Senate resolutions introduced earlier today: S. Res. 160, 161, and 162. There being no objection, the…

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