Sheldon Whitehouse

It does not fix the other problem but it is at least clarification on that.

My time has expired here and I have also been summoned to the last bit of a Judiciary Committee hearing I need to attend.

E-waste is a huge and emerging critical issue and we are working with the EPA to figure out.

We are also very pleased that a Rhode Island contractor is doing that work and creating jobs.

It should put an exclamation point on the national security costs of depending on the Middle East for oil.

As the Administrator of GSA, I believe you are the largest single consumer of energy in the United States, accounting for 1.5 percent of the Nation's annual energy consumption.

Let me thank the Administrator for her testimony today. I appreciate very much that you took the trouble to come up and you are excused onto your other duties.

The Federal Government, which you tend to administer behind, is the Nation's largest consumer of electronics.

I would strongly encourage you to do that.

The Federal Government spends about $24 billion every year on electricity and fuel and in the current budget climate, anything we can do to help find opportunities for greater efficiency and cost savings for the American taxpayer is worth…

One of the great things about the sustainability effort is that it asks us first for data.

I particularly want to encourage the Administration to pursue every possible effort to electrify its fleet of vehicles.

I think it is just plain wrong as a matter of both fact and logic.

But as a graduate of the Department of Justice, I remain concerned by the matter that we talked about in my office, which is that the standard that the Margolis memo applies to the Office of Legal Counsel in terms of what the Department…

I think it goes to the integrity of the Department.

The Justice Department recently indicated in a letter to Congress and in court filings that it would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Don is ideally suited to carry out the crucial tasks assigned to the Solicitor General, chiefly the representation of the United States in the Supreme Court.

Her statement is both warm and enthusiastic in support of this candidate.

I will follow the good Senator's example so that we can get on to the witnesses.

I appreciate the way you and Senator Crapo have worked together on this.

If we are going to solve our health care problem, we are going to have to do it as a systemic solution in health care.

These are not ordinary times. These are extraordinary times from a budget point of view, which means that we can expect extraordinary policy consequences from the decisions we make.

It seems that we have had very telling examples of agency capture in our recent history.

We have here a bipartisan desire to proceed with a substantial cybersecurity bill. It is a national security priority.

I very much hope that we come to a day soon when on a bright, clear, summer day, we are not hearing on the radio that today is a bad air day in Rhode Island.