I do not want to have to say, 'No, no, no, that step up and match us is only true when we are telling you you have to match us.'
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.
I hope very much that that will be seen as a welcome step by the administration and one that we can try to meet and match.
And to perhaps state the obvious, as the President of Aon Corporation, you have a fiduciary duty to your shareholders and to your employees, and to your customers, to try to get this right.
I can remember when the plan for dealing with pollutants coming out of power plants was to raise the smokestacks higher.
I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.
I say science is the headlights that drives us forward, and let's us see what's coming.
What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.
Warnings abound of what rising seas, droughts, floods and wildfires will do to American families and businesses, and to our economy.
I urge you to make sure that the administrative process is as rapid and robust, not rabid and robust.
In that backward-looking period in the past, that is an actual $2.2-trillion savings in health-care spending.
It matters a lot to us in Rhode Island, and I suspect in Massachusetts as well, and I suspect Delaware as well, as downwind States.
What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.
We would like to try to make sure that medication-assisted treatment for people who have opioid disorders can be accomplished through telehealth.
It can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.
I say science is the headlights that drives us forward, and let's us see what's coming.
I urge you to make sure that the administrative process is as rapid and robust, not rabid and robust.
I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.
Thank you Senator Braun. I will do a second round, and I guess I'd like to first start by asking the witnesses who are here present in the room, whether any of you endorse the proposition that there is nothing going on here that is out of…
It matters a lot to us in Rhode Island, and I suspect in Massachusetts as well, and I suspect Delaware as well, as downwind States.
The way that I have described this is that climate change causes weather anomalies, and those anomalies make events harder to predict.
We would like to try to make sure that medication-assisted treatment for people who have opioid disorders can be accomplished through telehealth.
Warnings abound of what rising seas, droughts, floods and wildfires will do to American families and businesses, and to our economy.





