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Sheldon Whitehouse: “Let me first thank my friend from Oklahoma. We often disagree; indeed, we often violently disagree on matters of…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2018
Let me first thank my friend from Oklahoma. We often disagree; indeed, we often violently disagree on matters of environmental issues. But we have been teammates--indeed, close teammates on the chemical safety legislation, which has been passed into law; on water resources bills, which have been passed into law; and on the last highway bill, which was passed into law. The lesson I take from that is, in the Senate, we can disagree, and we can disagree violently, but where we agree, push the throttles forward and get it done.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Jan 20, 2018

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