Sheldon Whitehouse

This is not a witch hunt. This is not a smear. This is not a harassment. This is to try to rescue the reputation of the Court from some very sordid facts that have been disclosed and proven.

I then called on him to rescue the reputation of the Court by simply taking action to respond to this well-documented outrage.

If there is any question about the integrity and character of these Justices, it really undermines the institution of the Court.

I think he is appropriately chairing this Subcommittee on the Courts at a moment in history when he's needed now more than ever.

I believe he can, and I hope he will, step up, raise his hand, and say, 'That's the end of the special treatment for Supreme Court Justices.'

I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized.

Thank you very much for being here, Director.

I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized.

So the oceans are taking a beating far in excess of the actual heat value of fossil fuel, or result of fossil fuel emissions.

Thank you very much for being here, Director.

Let's make this a 'can.' We really do need those 30 gigawatts; we really do need these jobs.

I believe very much that this Committee has a very important role to play in the permitting reform conversation.

If the function of lowering business taxes is to reward and induce investment that create jobs, then I can get behind that.

I think if we're going to do this, we've got to come up with a budget reform that moves us to a stable, sensible debt to GDP.

If the purpose of lower business taxes is to windfall to CEOs and shareholders stock buybacks and increase compensation, then I don't support that.

There's only one person in that room who was threatening to default on the credit of the United States.

We heard unchallenged testimony from Moody's Chief Economist that the MAGA plan would cost the American economy almost 800,000 jobs and increase the chance of a recession.

I promise you Ranking Member Grassley, hearings in the future, on ways to save healthcare costs that don't require benefit cuts.

Unfortunately, we meet this morning in the shadow of the Republican Speaker's continuing threat to force a catastrophic U.S. default.

This is not a witch hunt. This is not a smear. This is not a harassment. This is to try to rescue the reputation of the Court from some very sordid facts that have been disclosed and proven.

So it is really a dramatic effect. And it is not just a fraction of our fossil fuel energy expenditure, it is a vast multiple.

I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized.

The scale of this is really pretty staggering. The figure I use is zeta joules, the joule being the unit of measure of heat energy, zeta being a number that has 21 zeroes behind it.

Thank you very much for being here, Director.

The oceans have been estimated to be absorbing 14 zeta joules of heat every year, multiple Hiroshima level explosions worth of heat per second happening in the oceans.