Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"What I would urge to you as a matter of policy is that you should put as much attention and resources as you can into the leadership States."

"I expressed my frustration that the EPA, during the Bush administration, had become a poster child of the opaque Federal agency pandering to special interests."

"The Mercury and Air Toxics Standard set long-overdue standards on mercury, arsenic, chromium, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other dangerous air pollutants."

"For individuals with high health care needs, this provision provides critically important financial protections that were not widely available in the individual market, prior to enactment of the law."