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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.
And if you have one of these consumer take-it-or-leave-it arbitration clauses that are in a general contract, are they limited to small dollar amounts, or do they have a threshold so that if it turns out to actually be a really big deal…
How often do you suppose it is the business in a large-scale consumer arbitration clause that--empirically, how often do you think it is the business that loses as the result of that rather than the consumer once the--
It strikes me, Professor Drahozal, that there is a lot of import to the statement that you made--I think I have it exactly right because I wrote it down just as you said it--'nobody is going to agree post-dispute to an arbitration clause.'
Well, thank you, Chairman, for your efforts to see that American consumers do get a fair shake.
Is it an important piece of our governmental architecture as well as opposed to our dispute resolution system?
Rhode Island has done a very good job of addressing the point source for nutrient, the point sources for nutrient, that have contaminated Narragansett Bay and Mount Hope Bay for a long time.
I am wondering what you feel the authorities are that you have right now with respect to green infrastructure and whether you consider that to be a promising means of trying to protect our waterways from the nutrient pollution that we are…
I would love to have you say a few words on how the framework for State nutrient reduction process that we have been talking about can utilize a watershed approach in those instances where you have multi-State participation in the…
I think that is something that the Attorney General should attend to with considerable dispatch and attention.
But that doesn't take away from the fundamental problem, that a great number of people who don't have access to health insurance have health consequences in their lives from not having health insurance.
What's tragic about this is that it's not for lack of funding into the healthcare system that this takes place.
I wish you well as you go through the confirmation process under the leadership of Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Grassley.
I congratulate you on the recommendation by my colleagues and your selection by the President of the United States as a candidate for a lifetime appointment on the U.S. Judiciary.
I am just worried that we are going to pass this bill as it ends up being amended, that it will go into effect, and we are going to pat ourselves on the back for having done something good about protecting America from cyber crime and from…
When DNI Clapper had his confirmation hearing in the Intelligence Committee, he listed the threats to America's national security. The No. 1 was cyber.
I commend the Chairman for her passionate advocacy on veterans' issues and her tireless efforts to ensure that our veterans get the care they need and the benefits they deserve.
Our veterans have given so much for our country, and they deserve our steadfast support.
A very small group of very hard-core extremists is holding the debt ceiling hostage to an agenda to attack Medicare.
We just had last week a study correlating the corporate profits that are being reported across the corporate sector and buoying the stock market with low wages.
Today's Wall Street Journal says that the median net worth of white households is 20 times greater than that of minority households.
The Department of Labor's ERISA fiduciary proposal takes appropriate steps to ensure that people who give retirement advice stand behind it and look out for the customer's best interest by becoming a fiduciary.
We see wealth disparity with the wealthiest Americans with a larger and larger share of the Nation's wealth really unprecedented since the robber baron era.
If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent it adjourn under the provisions of S. Res. 234, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the late William F. Hildenbrand, former Secretary of the…
I am advised to inform the Senate that tomorrow morning the majority leader will make a motion to table the motion to proceed to H.R. 2560. Therefore, Senators should expect a rollcall vote at approximately 10 o'clock a.m. To accommodate…
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