Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Let's not pretend that economic shocks don't affect the budget."

"The President's budget would reduce deficits by almost three trillion dollars, while adding at least 25 years of solvency to the Medicare trust fund."

"Can we please find ways to extend that, because it seems to have worked very well, at least according to everybody in my recovery and treatment community?"

"The way that I have described this is that climate change causes weather anomalies, and those anomalies make events harder to predict."