Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I very much hope that we come to a day soon when on a bright, clear, summer day, we are not hearing on the radio that today is a bad air day in Rhode Island."

"The fact of the matter is, when you look at the data, the reports have shown that the Clean Air Act saves about 160,000 lives a year."

"I would just urge you to reconsider the value, particularly the leverage value, of these investments."

"It is not because of Rhode Island release that we are not an attainment State, it is because we are downwind of other States."