Sheldon Whitehouse

Indeed, we have no capital budget in the Federal Government to work with to accomplish that.

Madam Chair, if I could conclude by echoing what Mr. O'Sullivan just said...

We obviously are facing a very serious shortfall in transportation funding.

To bring Rhode Island's highway system to a State of good repair, we would have to double our current spending levels for 10 years.

We're often told that government should try to run more like a business. Can you think of any business that doesn't exercise its buying power to achieve price advantages?

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare has estimated that nearly $240 billion could be saved in the Medicare program over 10 years if the Secretary were authorized to negotiate drug prices.

And they play well with others.

The dark cloud of budget and debt concerns that lies over Washington right now is a very real thing...

I was pleased, for example, to join with Senator Thad Cochran this morning and Representative Shelley Berkley at an event in the warmer outside weather today.

Drug courts take many forms, but a consistent element in their success is the close cooperation of many players in the criminal justice system.

I was the Attorney General in Rhode Island, we had a domestic violence unit.

So greater incidence and depth of need.

It is starting to seem a little bit as if a similar two-word prophecy could be applied to the United States Supreme Court's decisions, and that would be 'corporation wins.'

I worry about that because my view is that the founders put the jury in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights in three separate places for a reason.

Thank you, Chairman.

Senator Vitter was very eloquent a little while ago on how far behind we are on the stock assessments.

Without BP paying for it at that point since they are not agreed. What sources of funding do you have?

And you have an account that allows you to pay the scientists and the folks who are doing the work in the meantime so that they are not carrying the cost of the government study?

I would like to discuss the IRS information that shows the top 400 income earners in the country who earned over a quarter of a billion dollars each actually paid taxes of 18.2 percent.

It is really important that I think people should pay their fair share.

I have said that we are on the losing end of the biggest transfer of wealth through crime and piracy in the history of humankind.

Senator Coons and I have a bill on our side, joined by Senator Graham and Senator McCain on the other side, to increase the penalties for military counterfeiting.

China appears to be the most dangerous and active nation state actor, malefactor, in this area.

A number of you have discussed sales to the military as an area of particular concern in terms of counterfeiting.

We are talking about a very significant crime. We are talking about a crime that has colossal economic impacts on our country.