Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I appreciate the opportunity to be with you."

"Rhode Island, as the Ocean State, has a long tradition of environmental stewardship."

"I would also advise you to watch out for OMB. We have received repeated evidence that OMB has become sort of the political bully boy influencing agency decisionmaking in very often I think inappropria..."

"There is no likelihood, I think, of it getting better. It is likely to get worse, if anything."