Sheldon Whitehouse

I think you guys are terribly one-sided in favor of classification.

I look forward to that. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). The Senator from Connecticut. ____________________

And to Senators Udall and Crapo, thank you for your leadership to strengthen and to simplify this terrific program.

For every dollar of Federal funds invested in brownfields redevelopment it has leveraged an average of $18 dollars in total investment.

George Washington led armies that left bloody footprints in the snows of Valley Forge with no certainty that their enterprise would succeed...

We were kind of fed a bill of goods about who was there along the road and about how dangerous they were.

We heard over and over again from our national security officials about the value of Guantanamo as a recruiting tool for our enemies.

I think it is really important.

We want a justice system that works, and we want a viable, robust public defender on the other side.

The budget is a really extreme budget.

Short of filing an original action in the U.S. Supreme Court and suing them directly under the Constitution, you are all we have got.

I am concerned about the problem of stormwater runoff into Narragansett Bay.

It is a little bit like being a downwind State under the Clean Air Act.

I hope we can continue the bipartisan spirit.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:25 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 18, 2013, at 9:30 a.m…

I am informed by the leader that we hope to confirm both the Perez and McCarthy nominations on Thursday. ____________________

When we get our next one, that is going to make a big difference.

Let me turn to Dr. Spencer and let me first ask a kind of unrelated question, Doctor.

If you are being a prudent actor and looking forward to protecting your children, your grandchildren and so forth, it is possible that there could be a point, particularly with this issue where we are already outside of the bounds that…

I do believe that NASA stands by its data that shows that the 12 warmest years on record since 1880 all happened in the last 15 years.

We are outside boundaries of carbon concentration in our atmosphere that have persisted for somewhere between 800,000 and many millions of years.

Let me ask if any of the other witnesses would care to respond to those charts and that data?

We know that has consequences.

It is also true that warmer oceans and warmer air carry more moisture and therefore can lead to more severe precipitation.

We know that Newport, Rhode Island, 10 inches higher in sea level since the 1930's.