Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Now, both Social Security and Social Security disability are funded by the payroll tax, correct?"

"we are proposing a mandatory toll charge of 14 percent on the roughly $2 trillion of earnings that are overseas and have not been taxed."

"One of the flaws in the stimulus program that we put together and passed in the depths of the recession was that our rush for shovel-ready projects meant the only ones we could get into the pipe were ..."

"there is a quality of this just being a very seamy and disreputable side of the legislative business"