Sheldon Whitehouse: “We are delighted to have Senator Bayh with us and back in this chamber again and we will be very sad when his son, Evan…”

We need to get rid of dark money in our politics because it’s rotting our politics.

The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.

I would say I was an early believer in Josh’s race. I served in the Senate with Tom Harkin. I know what Iowa can deliver because I saw Tom Harkin in action.

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.