Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I am working on recovery legislation, recovery and rehab legislation in Washington right now."

"We are going to work very hard to make sure that there is a reauthorization and try very hard to make it a bipartisan reauthorization."

"I appreciate that planting trees helps reduce carbon, but it hardly offsets the coal plant next door that is putting out tens of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide."

"The idea that I am supposed to overlook this is preposterous, and the idea that my side of the ledger doesn't count is equally preposterous."