Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I want to thank particularly Chairman Conrad for his leadership on this.

The idea that you cannot deal with revenues is almost beyond logic and sanity.

The pursuit of bi-partisanship should not and cannot lead us beyond the realm of reason, beyond the scope of science.

To me, that is a non-starter. We have a country where 1 percent of the population controls more wealth than the lowest 50 percent.