Sheldon Whitehouse

I am confident that the reassertion of science will bring about the policy reforms necessary for the Environmental Protection Agency to get back to the work of protecting the environment.

The people can handle the truth in a democracy.

The winds of change have blown and under the Obama administration science is resuming its rightful place in public policy.

Polluters' interests came before protecting public health.

Science took a back seat to politics.

Under the previous Administration, as this Committee witnessed, EPA's integrity was compromised.

Thank you very much, Senator Carper.

That may need further investigation.

I hope that you will do this in a year.

Institutions were damaged to make this happen, most profoundly, the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice.

I could not be more proud of what Chairman Feinstein is doing. I could not be more confident in her leadership.

The trajectory of what the Bush administration has left us is not sustainable.

You need to know in order to advise your principals well.

The hearing will come to order, with my apologies for a delayed start.

I think it is one of the most important hearings the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold this year.

Yes, he did not have to have special knowledge to know that that assertion in the OLC opinion was false.

Accountability can help restore our reputation around the world.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Polluters do not want to pay.

The voices of the polluters and the polluting industries still prevail on the question of climate change.

The family farmer with the cattle pond can rest assured.

I honestly believe at this point without that we do not have a chance of passing a significant climate change bill here.

So, if we wonder why the Senate is the last place in America that still does not get it, that climate change is a real problem for our people and that carbon pollution is something that people should pay for when the emit it, big…

We need strong, lawful, fact-based regulation out of EPA.

And so when we come to this distinguished Committee and say that this was in keeping with the practice of the Second Circuit, we have looked at it in every way that we possibly can to ensure what took place.