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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 13, 2018

I do not think we look much like a city on a hill when we become the haven for crooked gains of criminals and kleptocrats.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 13, 2018

Mr. President, last September, President Trump took it upon himself to create an economic, humanitarian, and political crisis by rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA, without proposing a serious solution…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-13
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 13, 2018

I think that has been a policy foundation of our country for a long time.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 13, 2018

the easiest way for Russians, for instance, to manipulate our elections is to put money into our elections.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

They are undertaking significant national investment in artificial intelligence and quantum computing that is dwarfing anything that the Administration is proposing or suggesting.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

the Chinese seem to be making that type of commitment very publicly: hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

The last election there was Russian influence. This election, they seem to be more prepared.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

Passing on relevant intelligence is not actively disrupting the operations of an opponent. Do you agree?

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

the Chinese activity to appropriate our intellectual property is obvious.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

Collecting intelligence, then acting on it in a coordinated fashion, are two different things.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 12, 2018

But has he singled out the Russian threat, which appears to be critical to this election coming up?

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 8, 2018

Mr. President, in that event, let me commence my 196th ``Time to Wake Up'' climate speech. The last year has been a lousy one for environmental policy in the United States. While the rest of the world began implementing the Paris Agreement…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-08
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 8, 2018

Mr. President, before I make my remarks, let me just say that in what we might call the current unpleasantness in Washington, what a pleasant thing it is to be here on the Senate floor and hear the respected chairman of the Senate Finance…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-08
Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Feb 7, 2018

Mr. President, today I pay tribute to DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, on the 60th anniversary of its inception. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, President Eisenhower determined that the United States would…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-07
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 6, 2018

Mr. President, indisputably, Vladimir Putin conducted a broadly based attack on American democracy and its most important institutions. Tragically, Putin's broadly based attack on American democracy and our institutions is echoed by…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-06
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 6, 2018

Mr. President, a number of my colleagues will be coming to the floor this afternoon to discuss the predicament we face as the Mueller investigation--the special counsel investigation, the Department of Justice--closes in on the Trump White…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-06
Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 6, 2018

Mr. President, one of Rhode Island's contributions to the cultural life of our Nation came from two brothers who grew up in Cumberland, RI, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. The Farrelly brothers did a number of movies. One of them was famously…

Congressional Record · 2018-02-06