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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 16, 2021

Nationwide, as Senator Crapo pointed out, there have been more than 174,000 nursing home residents and caretakers who have died.

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Mar 16, 2021

What do the New Age robber barons do with that money, the 1 percent billionaires?

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Mar 16, 2021

I want a review of a number of those decisions by the Trump Justice Department.

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Mar 16, 2021

I would like you to provide answers about what went wrong in the Brett Kavanaugh investigation that I believe was a fake investigation and not a real one, conducted and then covered up by the FBI.

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Mar 16, 2021

The FBI stonewall of all questions related to this episode provides little reassurance of its propriety.

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Mar 16, 2021

The FBI conducted a fake investigation rather than a sincere, thorough, and professional one, that merits congressional oversight to understand how, why, and at whose behest and with whose knowledge or connivance this was done.

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Mar 16, 2021

You`re not supposed to indict a sitting president.

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Mar 15, 2021

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…

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Mar 11, 2021

Enormously. Enormously. It would do two things. First of all, it makes government money a thing of the past for contributions over $10,000.

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Mar 11, 2021

If we don`t show the American people what this dark money operation is and try to dig at who`s behind it, then we`re doing a real disservice to the American people.

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Mar 11, 2021

Courtrooms ought to be open places where you know who is present, not a place where powerful players can come masked behind front groups hiding both their own identity and their interconnections.

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Mar 9, 2021

We are now trying to rebuild. But I think a lot of things got burned in those years.

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Mar 9, 2021

I will just say another kind word about direct air capture, which I think is a great opportunity for us.

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Mar 9, 2021

I have been in the way that the natural gas industry conducted itself recently with regard to methane leakage.

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Mar 9, 2021

Well, I will try to work on that and build back better, because we are going to be doing a lot of building as a result of that bill.

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Mar 9, 2021

I think that carbon capture has a very important role in our climate solutions.

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Mar 9, 2021

I thought the industry saw the cliff that coal went off of and that oil was headed for.

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Mar 5, 2021

And none could defend it. I ask your support on this. The Senator from Tennessee.

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Mar 2, 2021

As one Rhode Island fisherman said to me, things are getting weird out there, Sheldon. This is not my father's ocean.

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Mar 2, 2021

I look forward to working with you to solve the urgent climate crisis that faces Rhode Island and the rest of the planet.

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Mar 2, 2021

If you don't know what your methane load is, your methane leakage load, it is hard to assess how good natural gas is as a climate alternative.

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Mar 2, 2021

The Antifa little lie that surrounds the big lie and the fake Trump protesters little lie that surrounds the big lie were complete bunk and just manufactured propaganda.

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Mar 1, 2021

We are going to have to re-site that naval station.

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Mar 1, 2021

We have got a Nobel Prize winner, testifying under oath, about the catastrophic economic consequences we are looking at.

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