Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"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."

"Unfortunately, we meet this morning in the shadow of the Republican Speaker's continuing threat to force a catastrophic U.S. default."

"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."