Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I will ask Ms. McCarthy, on the spectrum between wisdom and recklessness, where you put placing a bet that this evidence shows that climate change has stopped."

"do your duty"

"I will just take a little bit of my time to respond to Senator Sessions' suggestion that one scientist says that climate change isn't really happening and that there really isn't an association with s..."

"Let me just briefly welcome our witnesses to this chamber, one in which reality is so often suspended, one in which science is so often twisted and mocked and one in which the power of special interes..."