Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Attacks on this rule from my Republican colleagues have been extreme and seemingly based more on government conspiracy theories than on the actual rule."

"I would suspect that you would find that there are a considerable number of things that both sides could agree on as being unnecessary, burdensome, or obsolete if we did it as a package and tried to p..."

"The Tax Code is rigged and riddled with this nonsense."

"Will you treat us fairly in setting up this rule so that it falls on the just and unjust alike, as some would say?"