Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Enormously. Enormously. It would do two things. First of all, it makes government money a thing of the past for contributions over $10,000."

"Courtrooms ought to be open places where you know who is present, not a place where powerful players can come masked behind front groups hiding both their own identity and their interconnections."

"I thought the industry saw the cliff that coal went off of and that oil was headed for."

"We are now trying to rebuild. But I think a lot of things got burned in those years."