Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

climate change is a wise fiscal--focusing on climate change is a wise fiscal policy, as well as for other reasons.

we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industrialized nation.

If you want to look at this as a serious debt and deficit problem... it drops the major part of the deficit reduction opportunity...

If discussion of the debt and deficit is nothing more than a leverage point, a fulcrum to attack spending programs...