Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I am actually not an opponent of earmarks, I am a great fan of my senior Senator, Jack Reed.

There are legal arguments and policies that fall outside a particular political ideology. That does not make them outside the mainstream.

The Department that Attorney General Holder inherited was in a very grave state of disarray.

I appreciate very much that the Chairman has been willing to work on this and has made it one of the priorities for this Committee.