Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Rather than continue to exist in a sort of fairyland in which a burden shifts to an empty chair and we all pretend to be satisfied with that set of procedures, we should maybe try to rethink how to do..."

"I am concerned as I think some of the other senators and witnesses have been about the question of the presumption that certain things are relevant."

"What is the difference between what is required to prove that somebody is an agent of a foreign power?"

"The other question in my time remaining has to do with the Lone Wolf provision which as has been indicated, has never been used."