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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.
May I first inquire of the distinguished bill manager whether I may take a moment to seek to call up an amendment or whether they have present business they need to attend to on the floor? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
We have other priorities. We want to cut taxes for folks, whatever. If that were to happen, that gives the Federal Government an interest.
May I ask unanimous consent for just 1 minute? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the request? Mr. McCONNELL. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the…
I ask unanimous consent for just 1 minute to defend my amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second.
I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To require campaign finance disclosures for certain persons…
I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment to call up my amendment No. 28. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as…
this is a measure that will allow a needed beam of daylight to be shown on the politics behind this bill we are on. As everybody knows, it is a little bit unusual to some that the opening measure of the new Republican majority would be a…
I am on the floor to say a few words about my amendment No. 29, which we will be voting on shortly after 3 o'clock, I am told. That is the simple amendment that says it is the sense of the Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax…
Why we're moving this around to hurt these nurses and to expand the population that is at risk...
I'm all for getting rid of this artificial problem by going to a universal health care system.
It seems to me that we're engaged in a discussion that is fundamentally meaningless because all we're doing is moving a significant margin point and its incentives up and down.
We've just multiplied by six the population that's at risk of getting their insurance thrown off.
In the time remaining, I recognize and thank the cosponsors on my side of the aisle, Senator Sanders, Senator Manchin, and Senator Leahy. Senator Inhofe and I are not alone on this bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing…
Colleagues, I almost hate to use my minute because I am so eager to hear what will be said during the minute when our energy chairman will follow me, but I am hoping that after many years of darkness and blockade, this vote will be a first…
Indeed, in my remarks earlier, I referred to this pipeline as possibly an economic zombie at the current oil prices. I have not seen a single report that this pipeline can be built and operated properly at oil prices where they are right…
Indeed, I would say the breakpoint for that study was at $75 per barrel, and it was at that point that the environmental impact became very real from this harmful tar sands fuel. Not only are we not just under $75 per barrel, we have hit…
May I inquire of the Senator--we will be shortly voting on a number of measures. One is a side-by-side to the Schatz amendment which includes a quotation from an environmental impact statement, and the quotation is as follows…
I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 29
I rise today to introduce the DISCLOSE Act of 2015. Simply put, this bill would end the massive undisclosed spending in elections that is undermining public faith in our democracy, creating what one newspaper called ``a tsunami of slime.''…
this week marks a somewhat dark milestone, which is the 5-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's, in my view, reprehensible decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. This was some fete of activism by the conservative…
This is going backward, not forwards, even by the terms of the conversation we're having here.
We owe our kids at least a system in which they have a meaningful and equitable opportunity to learn.
Federal requirements, and the State bureaucracies that are necessary to help implement them, have far too significant a footprint.
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