Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Let me just briefly welcome our witnesses to this chamber, one in which reality is so often suspended, one in which science is so often twisted and mocked and one in which the power of special interes..."

"Every company has a responsibility to reduce greenhouses gases as quickly as it can."

"What I can't accept is that the coal and oil jobs are the only jobs that are at stake in this discussion."

"I want our American industries to be the leaders in that."