Sheldon Whitehouse

Most Americans understand that paying taxes is not just a legal obligation, it's also a duty to their communities and to their country.

The IRS had taken virtually no compliance actions to meaningfully enforce FATCA.

The super-rich stash nearly $2 trillion in offshore tax havens.

There's a very direct conflict of interest if he can help get rid of the case, he can protect his wife from the scrutiny of having her actions be evidence for the prosecution.

There is something quite painful about going back to a place you have loved and finding it changed for the worse.

The fact that the climate emergency is one that Republicans and fossil fuel polluters would prefer not to talk about doesn't make it any less real.

There is something quite painful about going back to a place you have loved and finding it changed for the worse.

The fact that the climate emergency is one that Republicans and fossil fuel polluters would prefer not to talk about doesn't make it any less real.

We offer warnings, Republicans mock the warnings, and then the news proves the warnings true.

We held a hearing warning about wildfire risk and this month the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas, the state's largest fire ever, burned more than 1.2 million acres.

The fact that the climate emergency is one that Republicans and fossil fuel polluters would prefer not to talk about doesn't make it any less real.

There is something quite painful about going back to a place you have loved and finding it changed for the worse.

We held a hearing warning about sea level rise and storm impact on property values driven by uninsurability and we are witnessing the property insurance market circling the drain in Florida.

We had that wonderful moment in the previous State of the Union when the President talked about Republicans who wanted Medicare and Social Security cuts and they all rose in unanimous opprobrium to say, no, no, no, we don't do that.

My Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act would implement the Medicare tax proposals in the Biden budget and ensure that Medicare can pay out 100 percent of Medicare benefits indefinitely.

Creating a safe, prosperous, and fair nation: Those are our values.

The Biden budget is a proposal for how to reduce deficits by investing in our families and communities.

Tax cuts simply do not pay for themselves.

If that's true, the only other way to ensure long-term solvency is making the wealthy chip in more.

There is simply no better communicator of complicated budget procedure and arcana than you.

We had that wonderful moment in the previous State of the Union when the President talked about Republicans who wanted Medicare and Social Security cuts and they all rose in unanimous opprobrium to say, no, no, no, we don't do that.

My Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act would implement the Medicare tax proposals in the Biden budget and ensure that Medicare can pay out 100 percent of Medicare benefits indefinitely.

Tax cuts simply do not pay for themselves.

If that's true, the only other way to ensure long-term solvency is making the wealthy chip in more.

Creating a safe, prosperous, and fair nation: Those are our values.