Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"If it's hitting home in Alaska, if it's hitting home around the world, we should not be paying zero attention."

"Senator Murkowski was the original co-founder of the Oceans Caucus and has been a part of this all along."

"We are headed for a world in which there's actually more plastic waste mass in the ocean than there is living fish mass in the ocean."

"One of the things that we are learning, as you know, is that billions of tons of plastic is going into the oceans."