I can remember when the plan for dealing with pollutants coming out of power plants was to raise the smokestacks higher.
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.
You're bounded by the fiduciary duty to be truthful and accurate, and operate on the best information you can find.
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.
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.
Warnings abound of what rising seas, droughts, floods and wildfires will do to American families and businesses, and to our economy.
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.
If there is anything that you can do to help facilitate that, I think that would be particularly helpful and welcome.
The projected savings are $6.9 trillion against the extended earlier CBO projections.
Can we please find ways to extend that, because it seems to have worked very well, at least according to everybody in my recovery and treatment community?
That is an actual $2.2-trillion savings in health-care spending below what CBO forecast.
I think I tried to explain in my questioning to Mr. Andersen, that it can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.
The President's budget would reduce deficits by almost three trillion dollars, while adding at least 25 years of solvency to the Medicare trust fund.
What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.
I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.
House republicans want to add three trillion dollars to the debt by extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich.
The way that I have described this is that climate change causes weather anomalies, and those anomalies make events harder to predict.
And you can't just say what you please. You're bounded by the fiduciary duty to be truthful and accurate, and operate on the best information you can find.
Climate change will likely become a source of shocks to the financial system that would lead to declines.
You seem quite fearless about coming into the lion's den, and we are always grateful to have you.
You seem quite fearless about coming into the lion's den, and we are always grateful to have you.





