Sheldon Whitehouse

What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.

The President's budget would reduce deficits by almost three trillion dollars, while adding at least 25 years of solvency to the Medicare trust fund.

Let's not pretend that economic shocks don't affect the budget.

I think I tried to explain in my questioning to Mr. Andersen, that it can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.

You can't insure what you can't predict.

Warnings abound of what rising seas, droughts, floods and wildfires will do to American families and businesses, and to our economy.

House republicans want to add three trillion dollars to the debt by extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich.

Can we please find ways to extend that, because it seems to have worked very well, at least according to everybody in my recovery and treatment community?

That is an actual $2.2-trillion savings in health-care spending below what CBO forecast.

If there is anything that you can do to help facilitate that, I think that would be particularly helpful and welcome.

I have had enough Groundhog Days.

The projected savings are $6.9 trillion against the extended earlier CBO projections.

Climate change will likely become a source of shocks to the financial system that would lead to declines.

Climate change will likely become a source of shocks to the financial system that would lead to declines.

You seem quite fearless about coming into the lion's den, and we are always grateful to have you.

It is the product of the power of big special interests and wealthy donors, and enormous amounts of money go out the back door of the Tax Code to benefit the wealthiest corporations and people in this country.

That has to stop, not just as a matter of economic probity, but as a matter of simple decency and justice.

The number you used of an eight percent tax rate for the 400 biggest tax filers... means that those super-wealthy tax filers are paying lower tax rates than their limo drivers.

Ending tax breaks for corporations sending profits offshore and outsourcing American jobs reduces the deficit by over a trillion dollars.

The Biden budget would guarantee up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.

A budget is a statement of values. It makes clear what we prioritize.

Motive matters, right?

I think it needs to transform a good deal, because if you have an appellate decision that stands on what events have proven to be utterly false facts...

Citizens United was another one. They said, 'Don't worry about it. All the unlimited spending we're going to unleash is going to be independent of candidates, and it's going to be transparent.'

It is the product of the power of big special interests and wealthy donors, and enormous amounts of money go out the back door of the Tax Code to benefit the wealthiest corporations and people in this country.