Sheldon Whitehouse

She deserves a special place in America's pantheon.

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

Dark money is a plague anywhere in our political system.

The same sixteen foundations had given over $33 million to the Federalist Society over the same period

Sixteen right-wing foundations gave nearly $69 million to groups urging the Supreme Court to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2014

I begin by asking that the Record reflect how much I am going to miss the Senator from Tennessee when he is gone at the end of this year. It is nice to be on the floor with him.

I had the chance to at least hear the end of Senator Capito's speech. I thank her for the work she has done on the opioid issue that she was talking about. It is one of the very productive areas of bipartisanship going all the way back to…

I appreciate the concern of the Senator from Maryland on this, and I wish him success with his legislation.

Just for the reference of everyone, I believe the majority leader is going to come in for his closing script. When he does, that will end whatever little colloquy we will have had here, and I will then do my ``Time to Wake Up'' speech. In…

I thank the chairman of the Armed Services Committee for his bipartisan work with my senior Senator, Jack Reed, year after year on the National Defense authorizations.

It's not just our allowing their use of the rule of law to protect their ill-gotten gains.

I think there is a clash of civilizations, and it's between rule of law civilization and kleptocracy, autocracy, and criminality.

I thank the distinguished Senator from West Virginia for her work on the highway bill that we voted out of the Environment and Public Works Committee today and on our industrial emissions bill and on carbon capture. It has been a terrific…

May I propose to my wonderful colleague, the Senator from Massachusetts, that the Good Lord forbid that I have to get to 500 such speeches before we solve this problem.

Before I begin, let me say how nice it was to be with the Presiding Officer in her home State at the McCain Institute this weekend. ____________________

I appreciate the comments of my distinguished chairman on the Environmental Works Committee about carbon capture technology, and I am wondering what part of the carbon emissions problem he thinks carbon capture will solve, because leaders…

Arsenic, too, is a naturally occurring substance, but you don't want too much of it.

I am honored to follow the distinguished ranking member on our Environment and Public Works Committee and one of the coauthors of the Waxman-Markey bill--the one significant piece of climate legislation that has passed a House of…

Thank you, Senator, and if I may congratulate the junior Senator from South Carolina on the spectacular win that Clemson had and also congratulate him about being so true to the spirit of civility he discussed and not trash-talking the…

At the Senator's desire, he may add any of those whom he wishes, and we will consider that going forward. Unless and until he does that, we are in a position that unless we are helping all of them, we will help none of them. I yield the…

I note that my distinguished colleague from Massachusetts has arrived. We have an order in place in which the Senator from Massachusetts is to be recognized at the conclusion of my remarks and that the distinguished Senator from New…

On another matter, the Lautenberg Act amendments that revived TSCA are fairly recent.

I have noticed, as the political staff have been working on this issue, in this Administration that there has been what I consider to be unnecessary and unjustified narrowing of the exposure pathways that EPA will consider in enforcing the…

She prioritizes open communication around difficult issues and is well respected by our whole congressional delegation in Rhode Island.

Her familiarity with the intricacies of this important statute will help her succeed in the role for which we consider her today.