Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I guess as the only Democrat present today I am standing in for our Ranking Member, and I would like to make a brief opening statement, and ...

The danger, of course, is that the big, powerful groups that throw their weight around here would try to co-opt that process so that it once...

Without this, we have nothing?

I am from Rhode Island. We are a downstream State. Coastal States are downstream States.