Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"when the economy gets trashed, because of the Great Recession, because Wall Street looted the economy, because of unbelievable tax favoritism in the Tax Code, and as a result of those very painful cou..."

"the Republican insistence on blocking even a paid-for unemployment insurance extension is costing this country a 0.2 percent GDP growth and is costing--will cost 200,000 jobs if it is not resolved."

"I think we should all bear in mind that those concerns seem to have an interesting characteristic, which is that they evaporate in proximity to billionaires and big corporations tax goodies."

"I do not see how that is defensible, and we are going to continue to have that conversation."