Sheldon Whitehouse

Isn't over, even when subservient Senate Republicans ignore another whistleblower and shove this character through their new-low.

The thing that's particularly dangerous about it is that this is probably a test case.

When they’re ramrodding this very troubled, very dangerous nominee through, and blasting through committee rules as they’re doing it, that’s a bad combination.

While I’m usually delivering fairly grim news about how the dirty deal went down, it’s founded in an optimism that when you know how the dirty deal was done, you know how to go back and undo it.

This was done. It can be undone.

It was done. And so it can be undone.

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 [percent] 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.

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.

The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen.

That sense of political listlessness quietly sinks in and informs the political refrain: Republicans are shameless, Democrats are spineless.

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.

The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen.

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.

Watch. Everybody who is here, watch as this goes forward, because we will give the Republicans a chance to reduce the increase to the debt and the deficit by peeling back just the tax cuts for the greedy billionaires. We would be voting…

The bill, actually, is required to raise the debt limit by $5 trillion. So, in reality, there is a huge hit to our debt, huge additions to our deficit. And it makes me a little bit frustrated to think back to all those lectures that I had…

We have an individual who is here seeking confirmation to one of the highest judicial offices in the land.

What's next, brown shirts?