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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 4, 2021

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-04
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 4, 2021

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-04
Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 4, 2021

Mr. President, along with Senators Brown, Leahy and many or my colleagues, I am reintroducing legislation that would create a $75 biilion Homeowner Assistance Fund that builds on the success of the Hardest Hit Fund at the Treasury…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-04
Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 4, 2021

Mr. President, today I am introducing the Layoff Prevention Act. This bill would extend the financing and grant provisions for work sharing that I authored and worked to include in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-04
Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 4, 2021

Mr. President, in order to build on a key provision I authored in the CARES Act, which provided states with $150 billion in Coronavirus Relief Funds, I am reintroducing the State and Local Emergency Stabilization Fund Act to help state and…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-04
David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Feb 3, 2021

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in strong support of the budget resolution for fiscal year 2021. It has been said that a budget isn't just a series of numbers on a sheet of paper, it is a statement of your…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-03
Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Feb 3, 2021

This is a long-term challenge that we are going to have to confront, and we have to get this right for the good of our country.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Feb 3, 2021

One of the most corrosive things I see out there and that we have to contend with is the disinformation/misinformation campaigns.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays are ordered. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-02
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

I think that some of us feel going into this a little bit like we did going into the previous impeachment that a lot of the Republicans have already made up their mind, that they made a political decision about how this is going to turn…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

Did the president of the United States acquit his constitutional responsibilities when he sent a mob, an inflamed mob, up to the Capitol, for the purpose of their disrupting the orderly counting of the electoral votes?

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

You don’t have to know who hit Officer Sicknick in the head with the fire extinguisher to know that Donald Trump failed at those duties.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

A lot of my colleagues are honorable people. I just think they’re in a political pickle on this one.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

Mr. President, I am reintroducing the Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act with Senators Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Merkley, Baldwin, Warren, Van Hellene, and Brown. This legislation fully closes a loophole that has…

Congressional Record · 2021-02-02
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

I am hoping that as you look at the problem of large scale emitters, whether they are industrial emitters or utility emitters, you will take a look at carbon capture technology.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

You would be coming into an agency that in my view was more or less captured by the fossil fuel industry.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

Chair Capito and I, who have rather different views about climate issues and fossil fuel emissions and so forth, have worked together along with a lot of other colleagues in a very bipartisan support for carbon capture technologies.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 2, 2021

We would really like to see the questions answered. Where we have been stonewalled on questions in the prior Administration, we would like that backlog of questions cleared.

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