Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think there is pretty broad agreement that that is a good idea."

"the great adverse relationship that the Founding Fathers built into the Constitution was the adverse relationship between the legislative and the executive branches."

"It is a worrisome question to me, and I confess I do not have an answer to it in mind myself."

"The gap is actually on your end in terms of having the capacity to look into the breadth of various programs."