Sheldon Whitehouse

I would love to see that continued. We kind of broke the back of opposition to telehealth generally, and I do not think there is really any going back on that.

I will go as far as you want to go, Dr. DeCherrie, on this. My problem is, I have been jammed up in CMMI for 10 years trying to get it just for those patients.

I hope we can extend.

It just seems better.

Biodiversity in the oceans is a serious problem, and it is going to get rapidly worse if coral reefs vanish as a piece of the environmental infrastructure.

This is my longest lasting frustration in the Senate.

As we go through trying to reform our tax code to get rid of some of the crummy ways that it has been used to help special interests at the expense of regular taxpayers, if we can help reinforce the advantages for durable conservation…

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 6:27 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 10 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…

The bipartisan Medicaid Reentry Act allows inmates within 30 days of release to enroll in Medicaid.

The Chinese economy is more than three times as carbon-intensive as the U.S. economy.

The U.S. had not only been weak, but it actually tried to weaken proposals that everybody else was trying to agree to.

A Senator of the United States is an ambulance converging point for pressures and counter-pressures of high, medium, and low purposes.

I think any notion that this was a coincidence or a fluke is living in a dream world.

I pushed very hard on the Department of Justice to make sure they were not just challenging the people who came through the windows and doors of the Capitol but looking upstream to who might have been behind it.

Typical American taxpayers don't have the option to hide money abroad, so the wealthy who cheat on their taxes through offshoring also worsen income and wealth inequality.

I would hope and expect that would be honored.

And will you help us define whatever we may need to do legislatively, or by way of oversight, to make sure we close that gap?

. . . we need to continue to work on FATCA compliance. It's too bad that we couldn't put an extra `T' on it. Then it would say FATCAT, which would be such an appropriate acronym for it.

Are these the people Senator Whitehouse cavalierly joked about at the end of the hearing when he lamented over the missed opportunity to add a T to the end of FATCA?

One reason for the gulf between the official estimate and Commissioner Rettig's is the bad job the official estimate does incorporating the so-called international tax gap.

I see that it is not easy, but I think it is important to nail down the starting place that we are at right now.

The IRS conservatively estimates the tax gap--the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected--to be $441 billion per year.

We need to continue to work on FATCA compliance.

My No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act would end the incentive for multinational corporations to shift profits offshore.