Sheldon Whitehouse

The hard, square corners of the jury box stand as a redoubt against influence and politics and the power of money.

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

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…

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?

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

I have gone over my time. I appreciate the indulgence of my colleagues.

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 am a Senator from Rhode Island, a fellow ocean State. So I think I will focus my questions on you.

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

If you could transition the world away from fossil fuels, Americans would instantly be safer.

There's a timestamp on that very important naval facility because of sea level rise and flooding risk

If you could transition the world away from fossil fuels, Americans would instantly be safer.

There's a timestamp on that very important naval facility because of sea level rise and flooding risk

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:59 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at 10 a.m…

For the information of the Senate, Senators should expect rollcall votes in relation to amendments to the minibus during Wednesday's session. ____________________

I ask that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time.

If you could transition the world away from fossil fuels, Americans would instantly be safer.

There's a timestamp on that very important naval facility because of sea level rise and flooding risk

I do think that there is room, as we move towards more value-based care in our health care system, to make sure that the bureaucracies keep up with that.

Higher, but smaller. We share being coastal.

We share being coastal.

Right now, a government shutdown looms because house Republicans are once again trying to make the tax system even less fair to give more freebies to big business and billionaires.

It will cost billions and add to the deficit if they succeed at shutting the government down.

And I think Senator Braun, you have a track record of accomplishing just that.

Right now, a government shutdown looms because house Republicans are once again trying to make the tax system even less fair to give more freebies to big business and billionaires.