Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I would urge you to take a look at the way in which the counsel for folks at Guantanamo are treated."

"Colin Powell has never been a Member of Congress, and he is a person who I think America has confidence in on national security matters."

"This proposal would have corrected an anomaly in the Bankruptcy Code that prohibits judges from modifying primary residence mortgages the way they can modify every other type of contract."

"Many of us in Congress, led by Senator Durbin, tried to include in the TARP legislation a provision that could have kept millions of families in their homes at zero cost--zero cost--to the taxpayers."