Sheldon Whitehouse

They have completely lost their grip on reality, and are so subservient to fossil fuel overlords that they're willing to eliminate hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs.

It looked like the rights of women were being deliberately removed from the equation by the Justices of the Supreme Court.

I think this is another evidence-free effort to try to interfere with [energy] competition for their fossil fuel overlords.

The Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.

Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting.

I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.

It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.

Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting.

The Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order, following the remarks of Senator Murkowski, to whom I express gratitude for her courtesy. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore…

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I think we have a problem of economic injustice.

I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.

To run an unjust tax system that creates bigger deficits for the sake of wealthy political influence is not a good place for the United States of America to be.

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

You're providing them better health care.

I think there's an enormous opportunity here.

Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience.

Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Senator Whitehouse's proposal and his sponsored legislation shows one promising path forward.

Simple fairness is reason enough to end this rigged system.