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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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Apr 26, 2023

The things I can control or the things that the United States can control are its emissions.

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Apr 26, 2023

And to quote you the cause of climate change is rising energy consumption using fossil fuels; correct?

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Apr 26, 2023

And around here, there's an entire political party dedicated to protecting them as they pollute for free.

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Apr 25, 2023

And to quote you the cause of climate change is rising energy consumption using fossil fuels; correct?

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Apr 25, 2023

And around here, there's an entire political party dedicated to protecting them as they pollute for free.

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Apr 25, 2023

It looked like the rights of women were being deliberately removed from the equation by the Justices of the Supreme Court.

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Apr 25, 2023

The things I can control or the things that the United States can control are its emissions.

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Apr 25, 2023

I think this is another evidence-free effort to try to interfere with [energy] competition for their fossil fuel overlords.

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Apr 25, 2023

If you care about deficits or economic growth, you have to care about climate change and its costs and risks.

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Apr 25, 2023

It's pretty basic economics that negative externalities belong in the price, and therefore are a subsidy.

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Apr 25, 2023

You claim that renewable energy is always expensive.

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Apr 25, 2023

They have completely lost their grip on reality, and are so subservient to fossil fuel overlords that they're willing to eliminate hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs.

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Apr 19, 2023

Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting.

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Apr 19, 2023

I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.

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Apr 19, 2023

Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting.

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Apr 19, 2023

It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.

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Apr 19, 2023

It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.

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Apr 19, 2023

the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.

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Apr 19, 2023

the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.

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Apr 19, 2023

I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.

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Apr 18, 2023

This combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.

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Apr 18, 2023

I think we have a problem of economic injustice.

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Apr 18, 2023

One of the things that I have experienced in my time in the Senate is the extent to which Congress is responsive to big special interests and to extremely wealthy individuals.

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Apr 18, 2023

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

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Apr 18, 2023

If I may interrupt the distinguished Senator from Alaska for 1 minute to do some closing business and then leave her the floor. ____________________

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