Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I intend to do. The $15 billion that comes back to seniors through the benefit against the $230 billion overall cut to me is a fig leaf."

"It is just as wrong as it can be to have made that choice."

"I wanted to congratulate you first on the Executive order that the President signed yesterday on cybersecurity."

"There is an ideology around here that all cuts help grow the economy--all cuts help grow the economy--and that all Federal spending is a burden on the economy, and that here endeth the lesson."