Jul 25, 2012
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 7:07 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 26, 2012, at 9:30 a.m…
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Sheldon Whitehouse is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitehouse has focused on a range of issues including environmental protection, healthcare reform, and campaign finance reform. He has been a vocal advocate for addressing climate change and has worked to promote policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting natural resources. Whitehouse has also been involved in efforts to reform the political campaign finance system, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in political donations.
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Jul 25, 2012
Today the majority leader filed cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 3414, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. If no agreement otherwise is reached, that vote would be on Friday. However, we hope to reach an agreement to hold that vote…
Jul 23, 2012
It just strikes me, Madam Chair, that this is what Rhode Islanders hate about politics and about the manipulation of politics.
Jul 23, 2012
So, congratulations. Sometimes the good guys can win despite all of the machinations of special interests.
Jul 23, 2012
This obviously hits home in Rhode Island because researchers at the University of Rhode Island have found these PBDEs throughout Narragansett Bay with concentrations highest near Providence where most of our population lives.
Jul 23, 2012
So one could hypothesize that if one were concerned about a competitive business motive for protecting this information, it would be within the realm of most major corporations to be able to afford the kind of testing that you did.
Jul 19, 2012
Let me welcome Senator Blunt to the discussion and invite him to chime in now. He has been a very important voice in the bipartisan discussions on how we can find a proper way to protect American privately owned critical infrastructure. He…
Jul 19, 2012
Our topic is the urgency of the need to protect our privately held critical infrastructure--the power grid, the machines that process our financial transactions, and the communications networks that connect our BlackBerrys and our phones…
Jul 17, 2012
I thank Chairman Leahy. I ask unanimous consent, in terms of scheduling floor time, that Senator Manchin of West Virginia be recognized now for up to 5 minutes; that Senator McCain, if he is on the floor, be recognized at the conclusion of…
Jul 17, 2012
I thank the distinguished Senator from Colorado for his impassioned and eloquent support. I think we recognize that through the course of our country's history, men and women have shed their blood, have laid down their lives in order to…
Jul 17, 2012
We have an enormously expensive health care system for the results that it produces.
Jul 16, 2012
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 12:26 a.m., adjourned until Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at 10 a.m…
Jul 16, 2012
Today at 3 p.m. there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 3369, the DISCLOSE Act, which we have discussed at such length tonight, upon reconsideration. ____________________
Jul 16, 2012
They don't have children. They don't have aspirations. They don't have souls because they are not human. They don't have goals. They don't have all the things that make us different and make us human. But, evidently, they have the same…
Jul 16, 2012
In effect, that is what they did. The famous expression that ``corporations are people, my friends,'' is the expression actually of Governor Romney. But it sort of attached itself to the Citizens United decision, which doesn't actually use…
Jul 16, 2012
That is an interesting question. One would have to look into the hearts of those five Justices to get the answer to it. But why they would be willing to make such a dramatic, activist move without working with four other colleagues to try …
Jul 16, 2012
May I ask the Senator from Colorado that in an environment in which the bulk of the political spending is being done by outside groups and the bulk of the outside spending groups is secret, what is the likelihood of those goals being…
Jul 16, 2012
I know we have Senator Hagan, Senator Bennet, and Senator Franken all here waiting, but I would like to do some quick parliamentary business that needs to be accomplished. Resolutions Submitted Today
Jul 11, 2012
I thank the Presiding Officer, and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). The Senator from South Dakota.
Jul 11, 2012
It is significant that we are here at this hearing finding out that there is in fact no safe level of lead in blood for children.
Jul 11, 2012
I have been fighting for a long time, I was the attorney general who sued the lead paint industry for the damage that they were doing to Rhode Island children.
Jul 10, 2012
I not only salute what the Senator from Iowa has done on the production tax credit, but I also recognize that one of our great Rhode Island companies that is developing bioprocessed algal fuels has opened its major facility in the…
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