Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Well, thank you very much. I am afraid in the same way that concern about the debt seems to vanish in front of the tax benefits for special interests, concern about properly operating markets is going..."

"you do not end up with a net-zero benefit to the economy. You end up with a positive for the economy because of how you have shifted the tax burden."

"the social cost of these environmental externalities--carbon--are very, very large."

"I do not believe that there is any rational distinction between student loan debt and other kinds of debt."