Sheldon Whitehouse

We do not have 50 votes for that.

The court created a massive political traffic jam in Congress with, A, the Citizens United decision allowing unlimited money into politics, and, B, not enforcing the transparency requirement of Citizens United.

No, I think we have seen this coming for a while. We were slow to figure it out. But I think we have figured it out now. There’s a lot of pent-up anger and scorn in these new opinions, highly critical of previous Supreme Court justices…

So, the shock from these folks that this guy would be thinking about being attorney general was completely stunning.

To pretend that it doesn't have something to do with burning fossil fuels is just simply fictional, magical thinking.

Every major central bank has sent out financial warnings about what climate change is going to do.

We are looking at actual projections supported by Federal and State government that are unrebutted that we are going to have multiple feet of sea level rise along our shores.

Facts have proven his testimony in this room all those years ago extremely, extremely accurate.

The fact that financial regulators are paying attention to this shows nothing more than that they are paying attention.

If you look at America's energy sector, the Biden administration is working very hard to grow as fast as we can the renewable energy that we need for the future, because climate change is an actual thing, and the transition has to actually…

That would be a stunningly obvious and proper thing for him to do. The fact that it has not happened casts an additional cloud over the court.

We don`t allow people under 21 to buy beer. So why do they need to buy firearms and ammunition? That`s a little hard to explain, particularly in the wake of what we`ve seen recently. And for the life of me, I can`t imagine, as a gun owner…

I think if we can continue to support, Mr. Chairman, the Coastal Fund, which got, for instance, $492 million, the biggest allocation it has ever received, in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, and we have other plans for additional…

My pleasure, Chairman.

We must protect social security for future generations.

We are 16 months into this Administration and what is widely believed to be a world climate crisis caused by carbon emissions.

Freddie Mac is talking about a property values crash because of sea level rise.

I really, really want EPA to enforce pollution standards in upwind States, because they have a demonstrated record of not caring.

We have cars and light trucks with a final rule that for the overlapping years is less strong than the Obama-era standard.

It will be worse than the 2008 mortgage meltdown and pretty much everybody in the financial sector is talking about what happens when the carbon bubble bursts.

There is no question that Cummins has benefited because of environmental regulations. Regulations should be tough, because climate change is a tough problem to solve and requires us to find new technologies and new ways of operating.

Well, I beg to differ. But for that reason, I very much hope you will exceed.

Let's not forget the upwind pollution that is coming into our downwind States.

The American Petroleum Institute has said it supports regulation of methane emissions, correct?

I don't subscribe to the formulation that you should not do anything because of that.