Sheldon Whitehouse: “My Republican colleagues complain that I, and my Democratic colleagues, aren't concerned about our nation's fiscal…”

I have received allegations that the Kennedy Center has conducted rushed renovation and maintenance work with disregard to its commitments to Congress and the federal contracting standards the Center has long applied to its own…

The Department failed to respond to Congress, and instead, on May 18, 2026, announced that it had settled an unrelated IRS lawsuit with President Trump to create a $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate alleged victims of DOJ…

Over the longer term, accelerating our transition to clean energy will lower energy costs, insulate consumers from these kinds of price spikes, and reduce America’s dependence on foreign despots and greedy fossil fuel companies.

It’s fair to put a windfall profits tax on inordinate windfall profits rather than cut off children’s food programs.