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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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Jan 4, 2022

Sweeping up low-level players, while ignoring the kingpins upstream, isn`t a full investigation.

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Jan 4, 2022

That’s the thing that really hurts them.

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Jan 4, 2022

There has to be a closure -- some form of closure.

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Dec 7, 2021

I just want to thank my colleague Senator Cotton and my chairman Senator Durbin for the way in which that resolved itself. For a minute, we actually feel like a Senate here.

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Dec 7, 2021

If we don't figure out the allocation issues for the revenues coming from the new, from offshore wind and everything else, we will never get ahead of it.

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Dec 7, 2021

I am preparing a bill to change the name of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the Upland and Freshwater Conservation Fund.

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Dec 7, 2021

The dangers to our coasts are very, very real. The environmental upheaval that is happening along our coasts is very, very real.

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Dec 7, 2021

This has to be that day. I have been here quite a while now, and I have been fobbed off and fobbed off and fobbed off over and over again.

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Dec 7, 2021

There is a huge discrepancy between what inland States get and what coastal States get if you adjust for population.

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Dec 6, 2021

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

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Dec 6, 2021

You see that Trump has got these candidates in his Trump slate that he`s trying to move into Georgia, and that`s one issue.

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Dec 6, 2021

I did not see him as somebody who was going to be this allied with Trump for this particular reason.

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Dec 6, 2021

We are totally not doing enough.

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Dec 6, 2021

Georgia could be the place Trump goes for redemption but Georgia could also be the place where justice comes for Trump.

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Nov 30, 2021

I was an original author and sponsor of the Innovation and Modernization Act.

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Nov 30, 2021

We do feel the urgency in getting this rulemaking out.

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Nov 23, 2021

The Republican Party, this radicalized Republican Party is now changing how elections will be run, where they control state legislatures and how the votes will be counted.

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Nov 16, 2021

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the provisions of S. Res. 451 and do so as a further mark of respect honoring the life and legacy of the late Senator Max…

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Nov 16, 2021

For the information of the Senate, there will be two rollcall votes at 10 a.m. on cloture on the Nelson nomination and cloture on the motion to proceed to the NDAA. ____________________

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Nov 16, 2021

I would urge your attention to continuing to work with us to find favorable local resolutions for these small and heavily used wildlife refuges in my State.

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Oct 27, 2021

The old doctrine of follow the money, which is a well-established principle of prosecution is alive and well.

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Oct 26, 2021

There’s considerable evidence that a number of House members at least we’re in very close coordination with people who are in that Willard Hotel command center.

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Oct 26, 2021

The question is, does it stay an investigation mostly if the mopes and dopes who showed up?

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Oct 26, 2021

The Bannon question gets a little bit close, if the questions are going to involve conversations between him when he worked for the president and President Trump.

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Oct 26, 2021

I think he`s very important in all of this.

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