Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Obviously, if you have to run the ability to even ask information requests through headquarters, that gives headquarters the chance to either just create massive institutional delay or even put the ki..."

"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."

"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."