Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think that the theory that the executive branch can't act or decide or respond to reality until Congress has directed it to is a mistake."

"I would urge you to not mimic the ostrich that puts its head in the sand and look to the facts around you."

"It is textbook science, it is not a theory in that sense. It is fully established and virtually unchallenged."

"The amount of carbon pollution that mankind has released into the atmosphere is not a theory, it is a fact."