Sheldon Whitehouse

Just looking at the court, you have to look at not one decision but a pattern of decisions.

American people deserve to know who captured their Supreme Court and who keeps flooding our politics with dark money.

That is, first of all, the call of the chairman and not of me so I can`t say that.

Institutional sclerosis perhaps. I think it ought to be in the department`s interest to get this information out.

I hope that they`ll be a little bit more responsive in this case.

On the day Geoffrey Berman’s book was published, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman immediately announced that the committee will investigate the claims in the book that Donald Trump and William Barr tried to interfere with…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:20 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 10 a.m…

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The other thing I want to work with you on is low carbon transportation materials.

An evacuation route from a flood that is itself flooded is not a very good situation.

If you are New York City, you can take care of yourself, or you are Boston, you can take care of yourself.

I am from Rhode Island, which is a coastal State.

There is a part of Warwick called Warwick Neck that is going to become Warwick Neck Island.

Not every coastal community has that capacity.

Cattle alone are 35 percent. There are nine times as many cattle, at least by weight.

U.S. farmers and ranchers have long been at the forefront of climate-smart farming, utilizing scientific solutions, technology, and innovations.

But for many years, particularly from 2001 to 2019, the TVA paid a group called the Utility Air Regulatory Group, which was an anti-climate industry lobbying group that opposed clean air regulations, opposed climate legislation, climate…

Yes. Let me just say one last thing, and then I will let you go. I don't need you to respond, because I don't want to be pulling any surprises.

Over and over again, there is almost no place in America right now that isn't being immediately touched by adverse consequences of climate change.

It is hitting people hard in their pocketbooks. It is about a $5,000 per family cost, and that is a lot.

We cannot ignore the dangers of this extremism.

You know, you`ve Mehmet Oz, who is a crashing joke. You`ve got J.D. Vance who can`t get out of his own way. You have Herschel Walker who, I`m not even going to go there.

Well, they got blown up by Citizens United. And weirdly, the court in Citizens United said that this was all going to be transparent, so we`d actually know who was going to be spending it.

-- billionaires out to control the country for their own benefit so they can pollute it well, so they don`t have to pay any taxes, and so they can operate without regulation.

Expose it. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Vote on the DISCLOSE bill that will expose this.