Sheldon Whitehouse

I want our American industries to be the leaders in that.

Every company has a responsibility to reduce greenhouses gases as quickly as it can.

What I can't accept is that the coal and oil jobs are the only jobs that are at stake in this discussion.

I am prepared to accept that there are going to be economic impacts on families that you are here to represent.

I would rather have the State Department have to have the problem of cleaning up a little bit than to have the Department of Justice have the problem of doing nothing about this massive hemorrhage of American value and this massive…

I would like to hear your assurance that you will be more energetic about pursuing that kind of a case and working through the difficulties rather than allowing the Department to be defeated by those difficulties.

Thank you and Senator Blumenthal for the very strong effort that was put into trying to come up with a cyber bill.

The attacks through our cyber system on private corporations for the purpose of stealing their intellectual property to distribute to competitor corporations in the home country of the attacker is a very, very significant drain on our…

We have been a day late and a dollar short consistently with our response to the Syrian crisis.

The conflict in Syria remains one of the most crucial foreign policy challenges that we face.

If I could ask the Senator another question in response to what she just said, not only is it a win-win, being lower cost and better quality care, but I believe the Senator said that there is actually a third win here. There is the win of…

Isn't it the heart of what the Senator said just a moment ago that there is an area that actually touches on a lot of health care--it is a big area--where you can do two things at once? You can save significant money for taxpayers and…

If the Senator would yield for a question, I might inquire of him whether it is his view that if you actually take a look at what is being done by the administration under the executive order, it bears a considerable resemblance to the…

But, it is also true that Rhode Island, when they talked about a waiver, it actually gave them more money, not less money, whereas what we are seeing about in Federal policy to change Medicaid, we are seeing a proposal to take a whole lot…

If we do not do something, we are still going to pay for it, we are just going to pay for it in really terrible ways

Mr. Chairman, as Rhode Islander present, we basically got paid to have a waiver, because I think the administration at the time wanted to encourage waivers, so they baited this one to get Rhode Island in.

You do not want to vindicate your ire at the deplorable conduct of these patent trolls at the expense of getting a bill through the Senate.

It is not any of your desire, as I understand it, to roll over the garage inventor who has a legitimate claim but no resources, really, to defend it with.

Alert Solutions has received a number of threat letters from patent trolls claiming infringements related to things as basic as sending emails and faxes.

They do not like getting in front of a civil jury, for instance, where if you try to tamper with them, it is a crime.

Small businesses, like the tech start-ups we work with, are forced to settle these challenges out of court.

Rhode Island is facing this same problem.

We are the State with the least national parks of any State, and you could probably fit our national park about in this hearing room.

I hope very much that you will work with me and my office in trying to identify ways for these very small dams on very small rivers that the application process, the information that is required and all that can be reduced so that some of…

The idea of standing as a big corporation on equal terms with a regular person in front of a civil jury? It is offensive to them.