Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"You might actually find value in it as a screener of really bad ideas that nobody would put money behind."

"I do not think we do very well in government anywhere is the prototyping function."

"In some of the hypotheticals as scientists look forward, there is a credible view that in the out-years there are really actually potentially catastrophic effects, are there not?"

"And then similarly, in Figure 6, there is a cost- benefit curve on the difference between an optimal climate policy cost and benefit..."