Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"We hear folks right in this committee and out on the floor who talk a really good game on debt and on the deficit."

"climate change is a wise fiscal--focusing on climate change is a wise fiscal policy, as well as for other reasons."

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

"health care cost is really what is driving our long-term debt and deficits."