Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"This has been a very useful discussion. I thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member for holding it."

"if you tax things that are, quote, ``bad,'' that means you have more revenue which you can then use to reduce the taxes on things that are good."

"Do you agree that there is at least a moral choice being made when we discount harm to future--there is something selfish about discounting that because we are not going to be around for it."

"You might actually find value in it as a screener of really bad ideas that nobody would put money behind."