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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.
It’s wrong that corporations can use their wealth to secretly exploit foreign tax havens while everyday Americans contribute their fair share. This common-sense legislation would shine a light on the murky world of offshore tax dodging to…
The advancement of this significant package of legislation demonstrates a bipartisan commitment to maintaining and upgrading the nation’s water infrastructure.
We're actually somewhat generous about letting [the oil companies] keep half of the excess profits, but we want at least half of it to go back.
This is waste, and it treats a national memorial to President Kennedy as if it were a private renovation project.
Instead of pursuing renovations tailored to the building’s actual needs, the Center rushed a series of renovations driven by the President’s aesthetic whims and his desire to star in a series of televised events in December.
I have received allegations that the Kennedy Center has conducted rushed renovation and maintenance work with disregard to its commitments to Congress and the federal contracting standards the Center has long applied to its own…
The Department failed to respond to Congress, and instead, on May 18, 2026, announced that it had settled an unrelated IRS lawsuit with President Trump to create a $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate alleged victims of DOJ…
The allegations against Graham Platner in the Politico story are extremely serious and I am withdrawing my support.
Although a federal judge has enjoined the slush fund, there are other plans to undermine the American justice system to pay out January 6 rioters, including those convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers.
We urge you to reject any efforts by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to compensate January 6 rioters for their crimes and to commit to vigorously defending American taxpayers.
“The geniuses at ICE just arrested a Catholic nun, who practices as a nurse, as she was walking to church,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wrote in response to Sister Leticia Ugboaja's detention.
In Rhode Island and across the country, blind workers deserve the chance to pursue meaningful careers without risking their financial stability.
Over the longer term, accelerating our transition to clean energy will lower energy costs, insulate consumers from these kinds of price spikes, and reduce America’s dependence on foreign despots and greedy fossil fuel companies.
We should send any big windfall for Big Oil back to the hardworking people who paid for it at the gas pump.
American consumers are once again getting squeezed at the gas pump as President Trump’s war of choice in Iran sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors.
Pell Grants, one of Senator Claiborne Pell’s enduring legacies, have helped generations of Rhode Islanders get a high-quality education while taking on less debt.
Trump’s fossil fuel donors would love the federal government to stop measuring the enormous damage their pollution is doing to the oceans.
It would be malpractice to shy away from a fight with Central Casting villains... with such high stakes for the economic well-being of American families.
Climate change is right now raising costs for families across the country through higher property insurance premiums, grocery and electric bills, and health care expenses.
DHS and ICE have deployed recruitment ads featuring white nationalist slogans, songs, and imagery while lowering recruitment standards—facilitating the hiring of agents with histories of violent extremism.
I cannot believe that you support the messages associated with these recruitment campaigns, or want anyone under your supervision to use the imprimatur of the United States Government to promote those messages.
No surprise: fossil fuel prefers that judges rely on industry-funded ‘education’ seminars teaching a false version of climate science.
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