Sherrod Brown: “I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his leadership and his outspokenness--how he has shown the importance of the…”

“I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his leadership and his outspokenness--how he has shown the importance of the Senate actually doing its job on both climate change and campaign finance and how much they are related to each other because of the stranglehold the oil industry has on the Republican Party and the hundreds of millions of dollars they spend. Senator Whitehouse has been on this floor well over 100 times to talk about that. The country certainly listens, and the country is, certainly, in the same place he is and a lot of us are. Unfortunately, the special interest groups in this town continue to control this Senate.”