Sheldon Whitehouse

You don`t have to undo the filibuster to find ways around the filibuster and prevent Mitch McConnell from using it as a tool of minority special interest rule.

You change that and everything changes.

If Democrats had 11 more senators, you could pass gun reform.

The reason Republicans are willing to be put on record voting against sensible gun laws that will protect children from being massacred in their schools is because of the power of the NRA.

I think the daily temperature would probably be in the hundreds of degrees in our terrestrial States if it weren't for the ocean providing this enormous amount of cooling work that it has done to take some of the sharp edge off of the…

I can, indeed, Senator Graham. I can, indeed. And I thank him for his persistent effort on this, and I thank our colleagues in the House who have been very persistent on this, none more than Congressman Malinowski of New Jersey.

Yes, to helping Europe disconnect from Russian fossil fuels.

Let's do remember that there is no American energy security in oil and gas.

That is the right thing to do. Thank you.

Everything about the supplemental B.I. into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford`s allegations was tanked by the FBI, which takes political pressure at the highest levels.

They had failed and failed and failed again in the democratic parts of the government. They had just been blown out. They hadn’t been able to accomplish the extreme things they wanted.

And to try to paper that over is really wrong.

Brett Kavanaugh was not properly vetted, and we pretty well know it.

So, what they did -- Leonard Leo was an operative of the Federalist Society. And what they did was, they set up within the Federalist Society the selection process for at least the last three Supreme Court justices.

If we want friends overseas and if we want a robust world economy, it is important that America plays fair with the rest of the world on climate. Participating in the international climate fund, participating in the Paris accord and the…

I have been a fairly persistent inquirer about the Army Corps so called Coastal and Inland Flooding Account.

I think people around the country are justifiably, extremely upset and frightened by what this court has done.

Yes, that`s really become performance theater. And it`s getting a little bit sickening because they all come in and they all say the same solemn statements about how much they care about precedent and how serious they are about stare…

The Supreme Court justices are the only federal judges in the entire system who are not subject to the code of ethics. They hold themselves above it and they believe that each can be judged in his or her own cause of their own ethics.

The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it.

I think the notion that we are going to leave to our children an ocean that has by mass more waste plastic in it than it has living fish is something that ought to drive us to fairly diligent action.

I think they put a lot of work into it. It is a very, very good bill. I am an enthusiastic supporter of it.

We have a really stunning problem of corporate political power in this country

Let`s not pretend about a judicial philosophy is a mutual thing. It is a tool, and when a judge says here she has one, it`s worth looking into. But that doesn`t mean you have to have one.

I would just like to propose to you that you keep your mind open to the prospect of the so-called Buffett rule, supplementing the billionaires' minimum tax.