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Sheldon Whitehouse

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Sheldon Whitehouse is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitehouse has focused on a range of issues including environmental protection, healthcare reform, and campaign finance reform. He has been a vocal advocate for addressing climate change and has worked to promote policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting natural resources. Whitehouse has also been involved in efforts to reform the political campaign finance system, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in political donations.

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May 27, 2026

Too often, valued employees with disabilities innocently slam into an SSDI benefit cliff with unintended consequences.

sullivan.senate.gov
Jan 2, 2026

You float stuff and you float stuff and you float stuff until people get inured to what a stupid or outrageous thing it is that has been floated and then you pull the trigger.

theguardian.com
Jan 2, 2026

If they weren’t paying the proper ordinary Kennedy Center rates, they’re being given a benefit and those benefits seem only to be going towards groups that are affiliated with Trump and Maga.

theguardian.com
Jan 2, 2026

It’s the second term strategy of let Trump be Trump without guardrails and that takes him into innumerable places where presidents heretofore did not go.

theguardian.com
Jan 2, 2026

But it ought to be pretty plain to people that when a new administration comes to Washington, it is not the ordinary and appropriate thing to start filling your own pockets, your friends’ pockets, your political allies’ pockets with public…

theguardian.com
Jan 2, 2026

We began to get information about mischief taking place at the Kennedy Center and we got strong enough signals that we mounted an effort to dig into it and see what seemed actually to be going on.

theguardian.com
Nov 22, 2025

contracts for your personal friends

cbsnews.com
Nov 22, 2025

The Center is being looted to the tune of millions of dollars in foregone revenue, cancelled programming, unpaid use of its facilities, and wasteful spending on luxury restaurants and hotels.

cbsnews.com
Aug 8, 2025

Trump is — yet again — putting his fossil fuel megadonors first.

theblaze.com
Aug 7, 2025

Trump is — yet again — putting his fossil fuel megadonors first,” he added.

nypost.com
Jul 30, 2025

this sham, hide-the-ball confirmation process is a new low for subservient Senate Republicans.

commondreams.org

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