You cannot have 500 times the salary of your entry level employees as a CEO.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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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.
Lawyers Bopp and Rivkin both tell me that investigating their clients' activities is unconstitutional under the separation of powers. We can't legislate about Supreme Court ethics, so we can't investigate Supreme Court ethics. First…
I will call this my ``let's say'' speech. Lawyers know what a hypothetical is. We will talk about some hypotheticals related to the scheme to capture the Court. Let's say, Mr. President, that you are a creepy billionaire and it is your…
Showering tax cuts on the wealthy, and on big MAGA donors, and on big oil, are in my view not serious pathways to fiscal responsibility.
Time and again the solutions have been there. But politics has kept Congress from taking the necessary actions.
Time and again the solutions have been there. But politics has kept Congress from taking the necessary actions.
Yeah. Really good move to be throwing third graders who have spent their entire lives in this country out.
Showering tax cuts on the wealthy, and on big MAGA donors, and on big oil, are in my view not serious pathways to fiscal responsibility.
Yeah. Really good move to be throwing third graders who have spent their entire lives in this country out.
Time and again the solutions have been there. But politics has kept Congress from taking the necessary actions.
Showering tax cuts on the wealthy, and on big MAGA donors, and on big oil, are in my view not serious pathways to fiscal responsibility.
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following Senate resolutions: S. Res. 337, National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week; S. Res. 338, Patriot Week; and S. Res. 339, Blood…
I have eight requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…
on behalf of Senator Murray, I ask unanimous consent that the following report from the Committee on Appropriations be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows…
I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 12 noon on Wednesday, September 13; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour…
I ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles, where applicable, be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, all en bloc. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination: Executive Calendar No. 298, Michael Colin Casey, to be Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center; that the…
the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023--the FRA, by its initials--which Congress passed 3 months ago, represented a bipartisan agreement. It resolved a manufactured default crisis. It avoided an economic catastrophe that was threatened, and…
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 6:47 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 12 noon…
Economists and experts agree that expanding lawful immigration pathways to the U.S. will grow our workforce, our productivity, and our economy.
I very much hope that we will try again, and perhaps on the basis of the testimony here, have more success.
I am very happy to be here and resolve a--I guess, celebrate the resolution of a longstanding wrong done to the American people. Senator Stabenow can correct me if I am wrong, but my recollection is that the ban that Congress put on…
I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays are requested. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.
The goal---- would be particularly true if the people involved weren't parents, weren't from the community, or even from the State, but were being shipped in just in order to stir up trouble, make news, and create division and controversy.





