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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.
today is the 135th time I have come to give voice to the issue that I feel will most significantly define this generation of leadership in the United States and, frankly, around the globe. I know that there are many people in Washington…
some of it smells to high heaven and was snuck in by lobbyists at midnight and has real--I mean, it is the kind of thing that makes people go out and get mad as hell in the voting booth. And we should clean it up. It is a swamp.
I am on the floor I guess just a few moments ahead of the ranking member of our Senate Foreign Relations Committee, my friend Ben Cardin, who is on his way but has authorized me to proceed with a few remarks on the topic that he and I, and…
I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Paris Climate Agreement
I am on the floor with my colleague Senator Portman to join him in urging the House to take prompt action on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which passed with such a stunning bipartisan vote in the Senate. As Senator Portman…
I am here for the 134th time to urge the Senate to wake up to the growing threat of global climate change. I am afraid my chart here is getting a little bit beat up after all of these speeches. I hope we can begin to make progress. But we…
I think it is a tragedy that we are losing some of our nuclear facilities to an economic problem, that there is no payment for their carbon free power.
I have been to China and heard the reports on the facilities that were designed in the United States but are being constructed over there.
The approval process at NRC is an obstacle course that is designed for a particular type of technology but is not well suited to technologies that are not that technology.
It should remain, I think, a very high priority goal of this committee and this process to continue to point toward ways to reuse spent nuclear fuel.
Unless somebody around here wants to repeal the law of thermal expansion, then we are going to have to really address this problem.
It didn't use to be that way; this used to be a Committee where Republicans and Democrats worked together on environmental issues.
Clearly, there are several dimensions to the political fight that you are caught in the middle of.
It can be a managed transition in which the harm from the transition, the upheaval from the transition is dealt with in a responsible way, or it can be an abrupt transition.
I would urge my colleagues, you know, we met at Senator Markey's request with a delegation that included a gentleman from the Mexican Parliament.
this is the 133rd climate speech that I have delivered, and it has been an amazing week. On Saturday, the New York Times posted its cover story about dying coral reefs in our oceans. On Sunday, the cover story in the Providence Journal was…
the issue then comes to why haven't we dealt with this issue? What has been the problem?
I guess I would say that I am just a little bit sad at what this committee has become.
Finally, finally the Congress acted and passed the law that said, no, you must increase the fuel economy standards.
We have a United States military that in repeated Quadrennial Defense Reviews... has singled out climate change as a problem for the future.
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