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.
My sincere hope is that every Senator here understands the significant incentives multinationals have over domestic companies by paying half the corporate rate on their overseas profits.
I hope that we can agree that allowing international tax shelters like that... is bad policy.
The fossil fuel annual subsidy in the U.S. every year is over $600 billion from the International Monetary Fund.
I think the high point was Senator Johnson's confidence that we may be able to find some bipartisan action here.
It's only five stories high, only a couple of windows wide, clearly as Kent would say, the business was being done in Ugland House was monkey business, rather than real business.
I am certain that the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 also known as the Trump Tax Law, remains divisive in the United States Senate.
Insurance companies are already cutting their losses and exiting markets on the frontline of climate change.





