Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"George Washington led armies that left bloody footprints in the snows of Valley Forge with no certainty that their enterprise would succeed..."

"It is a little bit like being a downwind State under the Clean Air Act."

"We want a justice system that works, and we want a viable, robust public defender on the other side."

"Short of filing an original action in the U.S. Supreme Court and suing them directly under the Constitution, you are all we have got."