Sheldon Whitehouse

Is that argument to be made that the dispersants have more of a cosmetic effect by making it no longer visible on the surface than an actual benefit environmentally in the long run?

I think that anybody who really believes that should go tell that to the tourist economy of Florida.

Clearly we need, as Senator Cardin said, a review of our energy strategy.

We were told something like this cannot happen. It did.

This is an important amendment. It closes a loophole that was opened by the Supreme Court decision of 30 years ago, the decision to define the term ``located'' in the National Banking Act from way back in the Civil War era, 1863, as…

I will close with an appeal to my colleagues to continue to show interest in this legislation, in particular my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. If you believe in States rights, this is a good piece of legislation. If you believe…

That does not excuse the original person. Under the criminal law, if you are a fence...

What I see is that in my State the damage that began on Wall Street and then washed like a financial tsunami across the country, we are still digging out from, and we are in no mood to allow this to happen again.

Transparency has stability value then.

I appreciate Senator Specter holding this.

The system by which credit card companies get consumers into these high-interest rate predicaments is no accident. It is a system and it has been carefully designed by the credit card companies, beginning with the way they write the…

That is the beauty of the secret hold. They never have to tell that they are leveraging a nominee to get something they want out of an agency. That is why we need to end the secret hold. Simple.

I have to believe that most times people secretly hold a nominee because they want something from an agency. In fact, I had a Member actually acknowledge to me: I don't care what happens to that nominee, but I need something from this…

If that is not a great example of obstructionism for the sake of obstructing, I cannot think of a better one--forcing the Senate to take days to confirm unanimously a nominee after they have held for a long period of time.

Is it a fair statement of mine to put, ``Gosh, we released four'' into the context of, ``Yeah, but we are holding 84''? That is the way the ratio works right now; does it not?

Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation.

I look forward to working with you on it, and the statistic that I have heard is that 80 percent of the cyber attacks that America sustains that succeed could be blocked if people simply took very basic, very common, standard preventive…

I contend that cyber piracy is the biggest transfer, the biggest theft of value in the history of humankind, and we are on the losing end of it.

I want to thank you for your visit to Rhode Island after our flooding.

So I would encourage you to find a way to put the Coastal Program into that initiative if it is not in it already.

That is quite a concern.

These things really matter to us, and I would appreciate all of the attention that you can give to them.

Fish passages, eel grass beds, those sorts of things that are really tangible make a significant difference.

Restoring the rivers is a real priority, and things like fish ladders are very important.

We see it in habitat shift as warming coastal waters change the habitat and the species that can live there.