Sheldon Whitehouse

But everyone speaks up for themselves in Maine, and I have never seen someone stand to speak in disguise.

We must preserve Government of the people, by the people, and for the people from this tide of unlimited, unaccountable, and anonymous money polluting our elections from this tsunami of slime.

I suspect that those discrepancies reflect false statements that could be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001.

The crime of lying to a Federal official has no partisan component to it, and I appreciate that you will take a look at it with that in mind.

I do not think there is anything in that law that prevents the Department of Justice from saying to the IRS, 'Excuse me, why are you not referring this to me?'

Thank you for the terrific work that you are doing as our Attorney General.

As Senator Whitehouse so eloquently said, we need to move away from the rigidified--the disjointed--Medicare fee-for-service system to a much more collaborative and communicative thing with doctors and hospitals and health plans all…

We need to level the playing field with traditional Medicare.

You would think very much that a high-value network determination would pick up the deadness of a doctor.

I hope you will concede that the testimony we have heard today shows that for a lot of consumers this choice by United has been a very anxious-making, discouraging, inconveniencing and, in some cases, potentially even care-threatening or…

That would be consistent with a recurring problem that we are seeing in the American corporate world, which is an effort to privatize profits and socialize costs.

Medicare Advantage was supposed to compete head to head with Medicare and that she promised that it would be less expensive than Medicare.

It is a consumer protection problem that has a particular burden for those who are the most ill and the most vulnerable.

For the record, I have never seen an ambulance in Rhode Island go to an insurance office.

Which we take terribly seriously, so thank you for mentioning that.

It is my great honor to have the opportunity to introduce Dr. Raymond Welch.

But if you make it revenue neutral, then every single dollar of it goes back to the American public.

Climate change may not cause hurricanes but warmer ocean water can make them more powerful.

They have to keep building coal plants for a while because their economy is growing so fast that they need the power.

If our fossil fuel industry is trying to sabotage our clean energy industry for immediate market share advantage, it is doing a long term disservice to the economy and to the well-being of our country.

A number of big American corporations have actually imposed an internal price on carbon.

It is the No. 1 thing, our embassy told us, that frightens the Chinese government about a green revolution type of thing that could upend their rule.

Does anybody on this panel doubt that the oceans are in fact warming? That sea levels are in fact rising, and that the ocean is in fact becoming more acidic?

We are losing our State at the coastal verge. The houses at Roy Carpenter's beach are falling into the ocean.

I will ask Ms. McCarthy, on the spectrum between wisdom and recklessness, where you put placing a bet that this evidence shows that climate change has stopped.