Sheldon Whitehouse

I hope very much that that resolution can be achieved before a Committee vote on Mr. Fonzone.

Eight years later, there's still no evident sign of an honest look having been taken.

So the multi-party effort has been a significant improvement over FEMA alone in the wild doing mapping?

Do you think the flood insurance program requirement that you build back in place needs adjustment where properties are predictably going to be flooded over and over and over again in order to protect the integrity of the Federal Flood…

How is the insurance industry responding to all these new risks?

Along with the rise in the groundwater from effectively hydraulic sea level rise pressure, are you also seeing that salt water is intruding through the limestone into what previously were freshwater wells and water sources for homes and…

And is the warming of the ocean offshore, including measured up to literally Jacuzzi recommended temperatures, causing an effect on the strength of storms that hit Florida, particularly hurricane level storms that come from the ocean?

Senator Kennedy and I have worked together on finding an alternative method because we've given up on the good faith and neutrality of OLC.

I think in Congress, that a lot of the ideas that the OLC has propounded are really, really badly wrong.

I hope very much that that resolution can be achieved before a Committee vote on Mr. Fonzone.

Eight years later, there's still no evident sign of an honest look having been taken.

So the multi-party effort has been a significant improvement over FEMA alone in the wild doing mapping?

Do you think the flood insurance program requirement that you build back in place needs adjustment where properties are predictably going to be flooded over and over and over again in order to protect the integrity of the Federal Flood…

Along with the rise in the groundwater from effectively hydraulic sea level rise pressure, are you also seeing that salt water is intruding through the limestone into what previously were freshwater wells and water sources for homes and…

I think we are very much interested in looking at, in addition, how much of this additional warming is going to drive sea level in the short term and what types of measures can we take to really work to constrain the upper limit on sea…

How is the insurance industry responding to all these new risks?

And is the warming of the ocean offshore, including measured up to literally Jacuzzi recommended temperatures, causing an effect on the strength of storms that hit Florida, particularly hurricane level storms that come from the ocean?

I am a Senator from Rhode Island, a fellow ocean State.

Senator Kennedy and I have worked together on finding an alternative method because we've given up on the good faith and neutrality of OLC.

I served as United States attorney back in the Clinton administration, and at the time, the Office of Legal Counsel was viewed essentially as the high temple of legal excellence and integrity.

I hope very much that that resolution can be achieved before a Committee vote on Mr. Fonzone.

We first had the warrantless wiretapping opinions, which were so appalling that, when they became public, the colleagues of OLC in the Department of Justice threatened to resign en masse if the program was not restructured.

I think our country loses a lot when civil jury trials are discouraged.

I think in Congress, that a lot of the ideas that the OLC has propounded are really, really badly wrong.

Then, not long after that, the torture program came along, again supported by OLC opinions--in this case, so bad that the Department actually turned around and withdrew the opinions.