Sheldon Whitehouse

Do we presently have an authority in government that can oversee the dynamic process of engagement?

I think we are headed into, I think, a fiscal crisis that is going to make the current economic problem look like a picnic.

Every 2 years it can.

The Bush administration has added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt versus where the budget was planned to go.

I appreciate it. I have gone over my time, which I was doing happily and willingly because I was at the end of the line here.

Not likely to happen now.

This discussion matters a great deal not just to CBO economists and Senators on the Budget Committee.

It appears that we all agree with the need for a significant stimulus and soon.

First, let me join in the condolences for our colleague, Senator Thomas. Let me also recognize what for many of us is a sad anniversary of a day when one of America's brightest lights was extinguished and a distinguished Member of this…

If we vote for retroactive immunity, we violate the rule of law taking away legitimate claims in legitimate litigation in a manner that is unprecedented and unconstitutional. If on the other hand we do nothing, we leave American companies…

I consider it a great personal honor to join him in sponsoring this important amendment. We face, as Senator Specter said, the critical balance between freedom and security, which will always be difficult to maintain as long as a threat of…

I ask them to let me know when that new approach will begin because I am, frankly, not seeing much of it in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act procedures we are going through on the floor. I confess, I am a new Member of this body…

I appreciate very much the arguments made by the very distinguished Senator from Missouri, who is also the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee and possesses great experience in this area. My point, though, is that all these…

I salute his leadership in this area because perhaps the most significant thing that has been accomplished so far in this FISA dispute, that has been accomplished in a bipartisan fashion, in a manner in which great credit reflects on Vice…

Thank you very much, Director. Let me first tell you how much we appreciate the work that you did back in, I guess, 2008, on the original IRIS process, which as GAO found lent itself to interference, perhaps even capture, and was not…

I wanted to follow up, if I may for a moment, on the point raised by the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts who has just indicated that the effect of this amendment on my home State of Rhode Island would be $16 million less in…

I remember talking to one of the older prosecutors in the office about what I should worry about. He said: Just remember, remember that woman with the scales of justice, Claire. Remember she has a blindfold on. That blindfold is what this…

The limited purposes for funding would be: targeted counterterrorism operations, protecting United States infrastructure and personnel, and training and equipping Iraqi security forces. This plan gives our troops in the field the resources…

The president is always right.