That sense of political listlessness quietly sinks in and informs the political refrain: Republicans are shameless, Democrats are spineless.
Sheldon Whitehouse
The Public Record
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.
The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen.
If you're always meeting voters where they are or were, they'll begin to notice that you never have anything new to say, that they never learn anything from you, that you're not a leader but a follower.
If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up.
Once this comes home to roost in people’s homes, in their family finances, in really harmful ways, that [will be] motivating in a way that we haven’t seen before around this issue.
How do you have an issue that you win 74 to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?
The good news is that the American people hate dark money with a passion, and they hate it just as much, if not more, in districts that went for Trump as in districts that went for Biden.
Turns out, none of [the science] really matters while the operation is controlling things in Congress.
To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is.
cooked up in back rooms, cloaked in fake numbers (that) loots our country (for) the least deserving people you could imagine feels (like) a crime scene.
We have an individual who is here seeking confirmation to one of the highest judicial offices in the land.





