Sheldon Whitehouse

So, we want to get it right on both sides. You do not want false alarms.

Senator Lautenberg has for a long time been a very significant champion on these health issues.

It is important in the Senate for issues to have champions.

Those resources can matter a lot when it ends up to thousands or even tens of thousands of attacks daily and weekly.

I find it extremely discouraging that... all this committee can talk about is where Mr. Abdulmutallab was Mirandized.

I believe that the extent to which the country is under cyber attack is under-appreciated by the public.

It is highway 95. It is pretty central.

We all know that very often maintenance projects are cheaper done early rather than when they are left to further erode and degrade.

When you put them out to bid, you got $60 billion worth of applications.

We face twin problems: a dire need for jobs... and a fiscal problem that is looming toward us.

Rhode Island could not be more delighted to have obtained $22 million for the Quonset project.

You were able to fund $1.5 billion in TIGER grants.

That, to me, is one of the real values of focus on delivery system reform, because it is really a win-win.

Clarity is what works well and finding the actual value, correct?

We are prolonging the agony by continuing to forbid the residential home owner... to simply go to bankruptcy court.

I have to say that my single greatest reservation about it is that I worry that it will be populated with a lot of people who are fiscal, economic brilliant people but who don't really have the specialized sense of how delivery system…

Isn't it advisable to try to move through that uncertainty as quickly as possible?

You can go after Medicare with fiscal knives anytime you like.

I really applaud what the President has done with the infrastructure fund.

I think your points about having a proper capital budget are essentially right. We should do that.

Our budget does not really reflect in any way that I can find the infrastructure deficit that we have.

The theory is true, but the politics around it make it hard to adhere to the discipline.

I could not agree with you more, and I think that we have a window of time... The fiscal knives do not have to come out in the kind of emergency ways that you are suggesting they will have to if we do not get ahead of this.

I happen to believe that very, very significant savings can be achieved that way.

If my roof has a hole in it and the rain comes in, the sooner I fix that, the less my family's long-term cost of that repair.