Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

That sense of political listlessness quietly sinks in and informs the political refrain: Republicans are shameless, Democrats are spineless.

To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good def...

How do you have an issue that you win 74 to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?

Turns out, none of [the science] really matters while the operation is controlling things in Congress.