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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.

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May 4, 2023

What House Republicans passed does nothing to protect the benefits and support that veterans have earned.

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May 4, 2023

do not let Speaker McCarthy's partisan, hostage taking win the day, and lose the 21st Century.

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May 4, 2023

No apology needed, Senator Lujan, you have a very important voice.

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May 4, 2023

It would be fair to describe that as crashing the American solar industry.

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May 4, 2023

I've never heard a colleague say you know what? Methane leakage is a really good thing. We're for that.

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May 4, 2023

You do not mess with the American debt.

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May 4, 2023

Come to the table. Work with us to simply pay our country's bills like we have so many times before.

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May 3, 2023

MAGA Republican's dangerous bill poses a terrible choice.

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May 3, 2023

the Congressional Budget Office estimates that fossil fuel subsidies led to a minimal impact of about a half a percent more domestic oil production.

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May 3, 2023

If we wanted to exert pressure on countries like China and India to move off of fossil fuels and to accelerate their transition to clean energy, what U.S. policy would most likely accomplish that?

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May 3, 2023

On Monday, Leader Schumer, along with Senators Murray, Wyden and I introduced a two page bill to stave off default through the end of 2024.

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May 3, 2023

Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.

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May 3, 2023

If we end up going into this Republican threatened default, and all the pain and calamity that all of the witnesses have forecast comes to pass, people in America are going to want to know who is responsible.

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May 3, 2023

It comes as no surprise that a bill from House Republicans, of whose 315 pages, 275 are dedicated to handouts to the fossil fuel industry, would if implemented, also crash their competition, the solar industry.

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May 3, 2023

if this default is provoked by what looks like a desperate last attack on clean energy competition by a massive polluting, and heavily political industry, that will come back to them.

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May 3, 2023

We thank you for your leadership in introducing S. 923, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act.

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May 3, 2023

my hard earned experience tells me that when the Republican Party acts on pollution related and corruption related issues, the Party acts as the glove for fossil fuels dark hand.

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May 3, 2023

There is an enormous burden of unnecessary administrative cost from that.

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May 3, 2023

I think the way out of most of those problems is comprehensive payment reform.

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May 3, 2023

We recommend that the committee advance this legislation expeditiously.

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May 3, 2023

Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.

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May 3, 2023

We've raised it under divided Congresses and under unified ones.

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May 3, 2023

The Default on America Act doesn't even protect veterans healthcare, one of our fundamental obligations to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country.

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May 3, 2023

If we wanted to exert pressure on countries like China and India to move off of fossil fuels and to accelerate their transition to clean energy, what U.S. policy would most likely accomplish that?

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May 3, 2023

What House Republicans have voted for is one massive gift to the Chinese government because guess what? Our competitors are not debating whether to pay their debts or wreck their economy.

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