Sheldon Whitehouse

As I said before, judges must respect the role of Congress as the duly elected representatives of the American people.

It is a powerful testament to the quality of the different nominees.

You know, that's not bad.

Judges are obliged to recognize the role of Congress as the elected representatives of the American people.

They are obliged to limit themselves to the issues properly presented to the court.

In some cases, the foreclosure, frankly, should not have happened just as a matter of decency.

The person in the house was actually the best person to buy the house, and yet the bank insisted on throwing them out.

Rhode Island has been hit very hard by foreclosures, and the frustration is that in many cases those foreclosures should not have happened.

I encourage the committee to approve this important and bipartisan bill.

It is unfortunate, when there are real stakes for real families on the table and real time slipping by, that we don't get this done. We get jacked up enough around here, but as hard as the chairman has worked to bring this to the floor and…

I thank my chairman, and yes, it is kind of astonishing, the breadth and the scope of this amendment. As if CEOs don't have enough power over their workforce, as if they haven't done enough to send jobs from American factories offshore to…

It doesn't make sense. I thank her for getting us to this point. I know how much frustration she must feel, having worked so hard and in such a bipartisan way to get us to this point and to now have a process that would get this bill…

The costs that come with chronic pain are enormous, and they are not just health care costs measured in dollars. They are also human costs measured in quality of life.

Our work centered on simple things like making pain a fifth vital sign, recorded by the medical establishment.

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Mr. Whitehouse pertaining to the introduction of S. 2059 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

And it provoked considerable review afterward because of the alarmist claims that were made in this phony attack on the climate science. A number of pretty respectable organizations took a look at this. One was the university itself, and…

Yes, Climategate-gate. In fact, the real scandal here wasn't what the scientists did; the real scandal was the phony attack on the scientists.

And it is not enough that they have a stable of paid- for scientists to create doubt, to create phony science that raises the level of doubt; they also go out of their way to attack legitimate scientists. You would not think this would…

A $4 drug going for four hundred dollars.

But it strikes me that the two considerations are related in that an entity that is willing to engage in that kind of gouging is probably not morally opposed to selling low-quality or phony product as well for that kind of a markup.

The gray market could include something as benign as Women and Infants Hospital calling around to other hospitals and saying we're short on this drug, do you have any to spare and would you sell it to us, which I think everybody in this…

This is hitting home in Rhode Island, and so I'm very grateful to you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.

We've heard from the medical society that pediatricians are feeling a particular pinch, and one particular Rhode Island institution that we are very proud of is Women and Infants Hospital.

Not 100 percent, 100-fold.

We had over 30. The number is still climbing retroactively--but more than 30 Democratic Senators.