Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

climate change is a wise fiscal--focusing on climate change is a wise fiscal policy, as well as for other reasons.

we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industrialized nation.

We hear folks right in this committee and out on the floor who talk a really good game on debt and on the deficit.

If you want to look at this as a serious debt and deficit problem... it drops the major part of the deficit reduction opportunity...