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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.
The consequences of failing to do that are manifold. There are national security consequences, economic consequences, jobs consequences, quality of life consequences, environmental consequences, and they are all going to become very real…
I just want to welcome him back and let him know what a good thing it is to see him back in the institution to which he brought such luster.
I would also ask unanimous consent that the statement of the distinguished Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, Patrick Leahy, be added to the record.
The constitutional prerogative of advice and consent and the Senate tradition requiring the approval of the home State Senators for judicial appointments, I think, lead to wonderful consequences for America in the caliber of the appointees…
I appreciate very much that you have been here to speak on behalf of Mr. Lange.
I want to thank all of you for your presence here today. This is a very distinguished panel.
You are embarking, each of you, in somewhat different ways on a career of public service that will entail a lot of hard work, a lot of late hours.
I would urge you to take a look at the way in which the counsel for folks at Guantanamo are treated.
Colin Powell has never been a Member of Congress, and he is a person who I think America has confidence in on national security matters.
The fact that over and over and over again career prosecutors resigned rather than pursue prosecutions under the military commissions as they previously existed is a sign that something really was wrong.
But certainly since Congress is not interrogation experts, it would be a mistake for us to foreclose your ability to apply Miranda warnings where the case-by-case and fact-intensive determination made by the professionals suggested that it…
We do not need it and it is causing us far more damage than any good we get for it.
I think you have said that you look at these matters case by case and you make a very specific fact-intensive determination based on the particular circumstances of each case, correct?
This proposal would have corrected an anomaly in the Bankruptcy Code that prohibits judges from modifying primary residence mortgages the way they can modify every other type of contract.
Many of us in Congress, led by Senator Durbin, tried to include in the TARP legislation a provision that could have kept millions of families in their homes at zero cost--zero cost--to the taxpayers.
I just want to observe that it takes a bold legislator to want to go back into that blasted wasteland, and I'm delighted that you are doing it.
Well, it has been a long ordeal for our witnesses. So, all I will say is that we look forward to your practical, forward looking and optimistic voices around here.
There is a very strong do nothing caucus in the Senate. Their emotion is fear, their goal is doubt...
I appreciate very much my friend from Missouri's passionate defense of union wage scales and the kind of middle class life that unionized employment can bring to the middle class.
Jeffrey Toobin, a well-respected legal commentator, has recently reported that -- and this is a quote -- 'in every major case since he became the nation's 17th chief justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the…
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