Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"biodiversity in the oceans is a serious problem, and it is going to get rapidly worse if coral reefs vanish as a piece of the environmental infrastructure."

"as we go through trying to reform our tax code to get rid of some of the crummy ways that it has been used to help special interests at the expense of regular taxpayers, if we can help reinforce the a..."

"I hope we can extend."

"It just seems better."