Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I do not think coastal projects should be second class citizens in your budget by this kind of a factor of 37 to 1.

I do not want to be in a position in which the budget does not authorize funding for coastal projects, that it is $40 million out of $1.4 bi...

I think this is a safe bipartisan place where real progress can be made.

I think that is important information for Americans to know, that the system is not serving them in terms of delivering actual progressivity...