Sheldon Whitehouse

The most effective way to close the coverage gap is to require businesses to offer the opportunity for their employees to save for retirement through payroll deduction.

AARP has been a long-time supporter of Federal automatic IRA legislation such as that proposed by Senator Whitehouse.

Senator Whitehouse has introduced the Automatic IRA Act, which would create a national requirement for businesses with 10 or more employees to adopt a retirement plan.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:16 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at 10:30 a.m…

I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committee…

I do not think we are at a point yet where we can identify a single pound of plastic that has been kept out of the oceans.

We can't just have the Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce come in here and say, no, we are against all this stuff.

We have known that critical infrastructure was the prime target for cyber hackers for more than a decade.

If I could mention just one additional thing that doesn't really bear on this Committee, but I am hoping we can get it done bipartisan and maybe even by unanimous consent.

I want finito. I want it stopped. I want some balance.

Our coasts are in dire distress, and the Army Corps blunders on, just completely obtuse to that risk.

I have been hollering at the Army Corps for years about your flood and coastal damage reduction fund.

We are looking at 9 feet of sea level rise in Rhode Island by the end of the century.

Thank you, Chair Warren, for this important hearing.

Protect our supply chain would be an important piece of advice.

It is a lose-lose all the way around if we do not have an agreement on a global minimum tax for corporations.

Can I ask you if a price on carbon emissions is a policy tool that would be helpful in achieving those goals?

Rhode Island is the original home of the textile industry.

Delivery system reform is going to be more important than ever.

We really need to get that money out of politics, and this is an important area.

We have seen political abuse. It is, in my view, contrary to law. It has been influenced heavily by special interests, and the result has been corrosive to democracy.

I think the global minimum tax agreement is a really big deal.

I do not think that a carbon price is 'the' solution, but I think it is an irreplaceable part of the solution.

I know we intend to.

The increase in telehealth during COVID had kind of a hidden benefit.