Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I just want to observe that it takes a bold legislator to want to go back into that blasted wasteland, and I'm delighted that you are doing it."

"Well, it has been a long ordeal for our witnesses. So, all I will say is that we look forward to your practical, forward looking and optimistic voices around here."

"I appreciate very much my friend from Missouri's passionate defense of union wage scales and the kind of middle class life that unionized employment can bring to the middle class."

"there is a very strong do nothing caucus in the Senate. Their emotion is fear, their goal is doubt..."