Sheldon Whitehouse

Yeah, it`s -- it`s bad behavior. And it`s particularly bad behavior after the defense counsel have made those kind of silly accusations against Senator Leahy.

They`re in the position where if this were a regular trial, in front of a real jury, they`d be running to the prosecutors and saying, cut me a deal, please. Whatever it takes, get my guy out of here. You`ve crushed us.

I`m super jealous because if this case ever goes to trial, she`s going to have a real jury, and when she presents her case, if she is convincing, as damning in her presentation as the House managers were in the impeachment, she could very…

The house managers did such a good job of presenting this case, taking the broad sweep of this from the earliest days of Trump, you know, starting this scheme to claim that the election was going to be rigged, all the way up through the…

I fought constantly with the Obama administration about things that they did that would have actually damaged this process.

I think that what happened is that we changed the way we did business in health care.

What we are doing to this planet with carbon emissions portends permanent scarring of our oceans, permanent scarring of the fisheries that Rhode Islanders depend on.

I am hoping that as you look at the problem of large scale emitters, whether they are industrial emitters or utility emitters, you will take a look at carbon capture technology.

Chair Capito and I, who have rather different views about climate issues and fossil fuel emissions and so forth, have worked together along with a lot of other colleagues in a very bipartisan support for carbon capture technologies.

We would really like to see the questions answered. Where we have been stonewalled on questions in the prior Administration, we would like that backlog of questions cleared.

You would be coming into an agency that in my view was more or less captured by the fossil fuel industry.

A lot of my colleagues are honorable people. I just think they’re in a political pickle on this one.

You don’t have to know who hit Officer Sicknick in the head with the fire extinguisher to know that Donald Trump failed at those duties.

Did the president of the United States acquit his constitutional responsibilities when he sent a mob, an inflamed mob, up to the Capitol, for the purpose of their disrupting the orderly counting of the electoral votes?

I think that some of us feel going into this a little bit like we did going into the previous impeachment that a lot of the Republicans have already made up their mind, that they made a political decision about how this is going to turn…

Yes. While Trump was a flamboyant offense to democracy, there was also this creeping insinuation of dark money into our political system. and it is probably just as dangerous as Trump`s flamboyant excesses.

I have been asking the FBI and the Department of Justice from the beginning to treat this as a kind of investigation where you do the work of looking to see who is behind it. You follow the money, you look at the groups, the follow…

You are the Hank Aaron. You are the Roger Maris. So I appreciate it and thank you.

Thank you, Senator Inhofe, for your courtesy for coming to say those words. I truly appreciate it.

The climate is an emergency and that the U.S. government needs to do more and that we need to lead the world on innovating and adopting and investing and confronting the climate disaster.

Instead of urging that it`s time to wake up, I close this long run by saying now, it`s time to get to work.

Nature keeps sending us messages about what is happening out there. And in Washington we continue to ignore those messages. But they keep on coming.

Instead of urging that it`s time to wake up, I close this long run by saying now, it`s time to get to work.

Nature keeps sending us messages about what is happening out there. And in Washington we continue to ignore those messages. But they keep on coming.

I am okay with whatever the timeline is. I think that, you know, every defendant needs a chance to hire a lawyer, put their case together and prepare for a trial.