Sheldon Whitehouse

The Senate has to do something. And the Senate has consigned this responsibility to the ethics committee.

I think he`s really undermining himself. McConnell is, right now, he`s making the case for procedural reforms to allow a majority to do its business.

Venezuela is now a land of unbridled criminality and kleptocracy, where a humanitarian crisis has forced more than 5 million people to flee their homeland.

The task at hand is immense.

Thank you, Chairman Menendez, and thank you, Ranking Member Risch, for welcoming me to your committee today.

We must prioritize vaccine access for countries in the hemisphere as part of our global efforts.

Latin America is facing the recurrence of flawed elections, deterioration of the separation of powers, attacks on journalists and freedom of the press.

It gives me particular pleasure to be here to recommend a career Foreign Service officer and a native Rhode Islander, Brian Nichols.

I am confident that if we confirm his nomination, he will serve all Americans well and make us proud.

You agree it has a national security dimension?

I intend to ask you to direct a review of the IRS 501(c) policies.

I believe that foreign corruption and kleptocracy are inimical to our national security interests.

The American political system right now is rotten with dark money.

With intense leadership from Mike Crapo... we got into the national defense bill the Beneficial Ownership Reform Incorporation Transparency bill.

The 501(c) problem, and the extent to which anonymous money is now interfering in our politics, is deadly serious.

There's been a steady Roberts Five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions. And the last characteristic of them is that there is an identical Republican donor interest in those cases, and in every single case that donor interest won…

It's not three schemes but it's one scheme with the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges, and then showing up in court in these orchestrated advocates flotillas to tell the judges what to do.

This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equivalent of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and the precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter.

If they do -- then we will make damn sure we restore it bigger and stronger.

This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equal of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and that the president -- precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter. The big secretive influences behind this…

This slapdash hearing targets the Affordable Care Act.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from the Judiciary Committee is on THE BEAT tomorrow.

A small group of very big donor interests powered up by Citizens United dark money -- this is a new phenomenon, Citizens United -- has now the power to pull strings and to drive behavior, and they've determined that they want to control…

Control the court and they deliver it.

The Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Ginsburg's death makes this hearing salient as well as poignant.