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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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Mar 22, 2023

I can remember when the plan for dealing with pollutants coming out of power plants was to raise the smokestacks higher.

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Mar 22, 2023

You're bounded by the fiduciary duty to be truthful and accurate, and operate on the best information you can find.

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Mar 22, 2023

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.

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Mar 22, 2023

We would like to try to make sure that medication-assisted treatment for people who have opioid disorders can be accomplished through telehealth.

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Mar 22, 2023

It can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.

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Mar 21, 2023

Warnings abound of what rising seas, droughts, floods and wildfires will do to American families and businesses, and to our economy.

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Mar 21, 2023

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.

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Mar 21, 2023

If there is anything that you can do to help facilitate that, I think that would be particularly helpful and welcome.

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Mar 21, 2023

The projected savings are $6.9 trillion against the extended earlier CBO projections.

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Mar 21, 2023

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?

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Mar 21, 2023

That is an actual $2.2-trillion savings in health-care spending below what CBO forecast.

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Mar 21, 2023

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.

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Mar 21, 2023

I have had enough Groundhog Days.

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Mar 21, 2023

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.

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Mar 21, 2023

What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.

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Mar 21, 2023

I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.

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Mar 21, 2023

You can't insure what you can't predict.

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Mar 21, 2023

Let's not pretend that economic shocks don't affect the budget.

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Mar 21, 2023

We still need other major interventions.

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Mar 21, 2023

House republicans want to add three trillion dollars to the debt by extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich.

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Mar 21, 2023

The way that I have described this is that climate change causes weather anomalies, and those anomalies make events harder to predict.

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Mar 21, 2023

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.

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Mar 16, 2023

Climate change will likely become a source of shocks to the financial system that would lead to declines.

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Mar 16, 2023

You seem quite fearless about coming into the lion's den, and we are always grateful to have you.

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Mar 16, 2023

You seem quite fearless about coming into the lion's den, and we are always grateful to have you.

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