Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"the budget process has become meaningless, and I am sick of it."

"I think I share your frustration with the process that I think we probably all on this Committee feel."

"Again, that damage would fall on the coastal Atlantic States, correct?"

"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..."