Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think if we're going to do this, we've got to come up with a budget reform that moves us to a stable, sensible debt to GDP."

"If the function of lowering business taxes is to reward and induce investment that create jobs, then I can get behind that."

"I believe very much that this Committee has a very important role to play in the permitting reform conversation."

"This is not a witch hunt. This is not a smear. This is not a harassment. This is to try to rescue the reputation of the Court from some very sordid facts that have been disclosed and proven."