Sheldon Whitehouse

I appreciate this hearing very much.

I’m confident that we will have them. The reason I’m confident that we will have them is what you just quoted from Jane Mayer’s expose which we know from polling and that is that a conservative tea partier hates special interests…

Well, the Koch brothers and a couple of other creepy right-wing Republican billionaires have basically built out what in the intelligence community you`d call a massive covert operation.

They are now backing this push to kill S-1, HR-1, the For the People Act.

The reason I`m confident that we will have them is what you just quoted from Jane Mayer`s expose which we know from polling and that is that a conservative tea partier hates special interests, anonymous dark money corrupting American…

The Koch brothers and a couple of other creepy right-wing Republican billionaires have basically built out what in the intelligence community you`d call a massive covert operation.

You’ve got to demand transparency and fight back and call on leaders of the Democratic Party to ask what their countermeasures are against this big operation.

Look, the most important thing to Mitch McConnell is his little reclusive group of billionaire donors. And the most important thing to them is control the Supreme Court that doesn`t have to answer to the voters. So, it will do what they…

I think he is playing to an audience of a very small group, of big billionaire donors, who have a plan to try to take over as much control of the United States' government as they can.

The House can move, more or less, immediately, to a subpoena.

We must get senate Dems unified on climate on a real reconciliation bill, lest we get sucked into bipartisanship mud where we fail on climate.

There is not nor ever has been serious dispute about the basic elements of this in the scientific community.

There is no doubt to me that this spending is necessary to see if we can even catch up to what we have unfortunately allowed to happen around the world with regard to climate change.

If I recall correctly, it was, 'We are screwed.'

The President has issued a memorandum on establishing the fight against corruption as a core United States national security interest.

I would like to know if any of those, and if so how many of those, involved potential false statements made by nonprofits regarding political activity.

It is absolutely critical that the focus of that information reporting be on the wealthy tax evaders.

For the sake of fairness and for the sake of the budget, it makes a lot more sense to go after cheating by the big guys than focusing on working people.

Something is really out of whack here, colleagues.

If you are a wealthy cheat in a partnership, your odds of getting audited are slightly higher than your odds of getting hit by a meteorite.

I would be a no vote on the provision embedded in this amendment that creates first and second class States for purposes of the INFRA Program.

At this point, it appears that the department has not made a real decision on whether or not President Trump committed obstruction of justice, and we are entitled, I think, to that decision and to a credible defense of it.

It made no sense not to just clear the air of this, go with the judge's decision with the department and every reason to pursue it.

It seems that that is an incentive to drive jobs offshore, and it seems that it is an unfair competitive advantage for the bigger company.

It is kind of cruel to the family to deny them those supports because of some funding requirement that is not even designed for that population but has terrible effects on families and their access to care.