Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Without this, we have nothing?"

"I am from Rhode Island. We are a downstream State. Coastal States are downstream States."

"The so-called Federal Water Quality Protection Act, an ironic name if there ever was one, would prohibit EPA from finalizing any change to its regulations."

"Contrary to what my Republican colleagues claim, this rule is good economic news in Rhode Island and probably across the Country."