Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Polluters never want to reduce their pollution and regularly attack the Clean Air Act based on overblown costs that always ignore the other side of the ledger, the public health and other benefits of ..."

"Here, we often see the industry coming in and saying, oh, boy, look how much it is going to cost us to clean up and this is a terrible cost."

"Rhode Island parents should not have to tell their children they cannot play outside on what looks like a perfect summer day because it is a bad air day caused by out-of-State, upwind pollution."

"I think this Committee provides that opportunity, in the past under him and now under Chairman Barrasso."