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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.
We had similar testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee. The witness who testified before us released his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee and very much the same conclusion: We judge that global climate change will…
If the Senator doesn't mind, if I change elements from fire to water since I represent an ocean State, another place where climate change is creating dangerous consequences is in our oceans. Let me cite a few reports that have come out…
It is actually quite a good example, because we have some of the phony science that has attacked the science of climate change, which is actually a pretty good comparison to what the Senator described. Take, for instance, the bogus…
This is hitting home in Rhode Island, and so I'm very grateful to you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.
But it strikes me that the two considerations are related in that an entity that is willing to engage in that kind of gouging is probably not morally opposed to selling low-quality or phony product as well for that kind of a markup.
The gray market could include something as benign as Women and Infants Hospital calling around to other hospitals and saying we're short on this drug, do you have any to spare and would you sell it to us, which I think everybody in this…
I think it is Congress' job to make sure that you have the resources and the structure that will be most effective to accomplish your mission.
I think we need to figure out what the proper design should be for going after it and then worry about how we pay for it.
I do not want to in any way have anything that I have said be taken as a criticism of you or the FBI management.
the statement my colleague has made is truthful and important, but there is absolutely more to this story even than that. At another time I will discuss at greater length the oceans dimension to what is happening to our planet as a result…
I thank my colleague. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tester). The Senator from Rhode Island.
We had over 30. The number is still climbing retroactively--but more than 30 Democratic Senators.
I thank Senator Sanders. I wish to go back to this question of the jobs and the economic value we get from clean energy. The Department of Energy reports that the clean energy sector alone directly employs nearly 1.6 million people in the…
I thank Senator Sanders. Senator Cardin has arrived so I will hand off to him in a moment. But to the Senator's point about the imbalance between support for the fossil fuel energy industry and the renewable energy industry; the first…
Voting to confirm an individual to the Federal bench is one of the most important decisions that a Senator can make.
I think this is a call to action from the U.S. Congress to make sure that Americans have the water quality infrastructure that they deserve, and we are going to have to do this sooner or later. Why not do it now, while we so urgently need…
I thank the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the question occurs on agreeing to the motion to proceed to S. 1944, which is subject to a 60-affirmative-vote threshold.
I rise to speak in support of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011, which I am pleased to cosponsor today. As attorney general of Rhode Island, I saw firsthand the good work the Violence Against Women Act, VAWA, has done…
I come to the floor to speak in support of President Obama's nomination of Richard Cordray, from Ohio, to be the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He is a former attorney general, former solicitor general, and former…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 7, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…
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