Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I am from Rhode Island. We are a downstream State. Coastal States are downstream States."

"Without this, we have nothing?"

"The Clean Water Act and clean water regulation has, for always since back when it was a common law doctrine and through the establishment by Congress of the Clean Water Act and through the EPA's admin..."

"Contrary to what my Republican colleagues claim, this rule is good economic news in Rhode Island and probably across the Country."