Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"That is not our process. We now have a bill and we are simply asking for a redline proposal."

"I would urge you to do what you can to try to put your desires and wishes into a redline markup format."

"This is nobody's first rodeo here, and we have all certainly been involved in legislative matters in which the private sector has a very specific point of view."

"It is a positive effort to go through the trouble, as we have all discovered when we are drafting legislation, to try to put something in writing."