Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think I am making a slightly different point, thinking longer term about the health care problem per se, and that as that $35 trillion tsunami hits us, we cannot cope with that from a fiscal point o..."

"It is an absolutely critical choice that our country faces."

"During the course of the Bush administration, the OMB has acquired the role and reputation of being the political fixer and hit man for the administration in agency regulatory proceedings."

"George Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written recently that there is $1 trillion a year of excess cost in our health care system, and he is no fool, is he?"