Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"if you are a legislator and you lose the substantive fight that you would like to win, very often your consolation prize is a reporting requirement;"

"And we need to turn that upside down so that it is most convenient for the public to get this information."

"I would love to be able to work with my colleagues on that Committee to try to reduce some of the dead hands reaching from the past that were based in a political defeat for somebody"

"There are really two problems. One is that even the high performers remain vulnerable to breach by very highly qualified and persistent attackers."