Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"It's not just our allowing their use of the rule of law to protect their ill-gotten gains."

"I think there is a clash of civilizations, and it's between rule of law civilization and kleptocracy, autocracy, and criminality."

"On another matter, the Lautenberg Act amendments that revived TSCA are fairly recent."

"I have noticed, as the political staff have been working on this issue, in this Administration that there has been what I consider to be unnecessary and unjustified narrowing of the exposure pathways ..."