Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"We have seen a rather unseemly spectacle recently which was a member of the Cabinet telling a Senator that they would be punished in grants and in programs in their home State for voting the wrong way..."

"We shouldn't have to wait around for that."

"I just want to see it more of a national model."

"It is bonkers that a mom and a dad may not know that a 22-year-old or 24-year-old child has been in and out of the emergency room for overdose."