Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I would suspect that you would find that there are a considerable number of things that both sides could agree on as being unnecessary, burdensome, or obsolete if we did it as a package and tried to p..."

"Will you treat us fairly in setting up this rule so that it falls on the just and unjust alike, as some would say?"

"The danger, of course, is that the big, powerful groups that throw their weight around here would try to co-opt that process so that it once again became the Wall Street and Big Polluter Free Ride Act..."

"In making those selections, will you be sure that it can apply fairly to all results, no matter what the desired policy outcome might be by certain interests?"