Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"When you look at the economic effects, do you look broadly at the economic effects with concern on the one hand there may be some increases in power costs?"

"I think, frankly, that is an unfair comment when people make that because the polluting industries have basically got Congress locked down."

"We need the EPA to be defending us against the coal plants that are downwind that have dodged regulation for years."

"They shouldn't both stop negotiations in Congress and then tell you that you shouldn't act until Congress has taken this up."