Sheldon Whitehouse

The Democratic junior Senator from Rhode Island is introducing a Trump environmental nominee.

We have to understand how dramatically the climate is changing.

I do not think there is anybody sitting in this room who is completely happy with the way the process is working, including myself.

With the support of Chairman Hatch, which I appreciate very much, we have a proposal to suspend the 5-month waiting period for people who are diagnosed with ALS.

I think it would be a terrible mistake to let that happen because of all the potential conflicts of interest and added costs and so forth.

I just want your assurance that you will not be a part of or party to any Fifth Column within Social Security.

I simply want to make--let me start by defining my terms. You know what a Fifth Column is?

It is important to support the ability of retirement plans to honor commitments made to working Americans.

I think to prevent that we need to have a strong focus on requiring countries with whom we have trade relationships to meet elementary standards of upland waste disposal responsibility.

We do beach cleanups in Rhode Island as well.

We clearly need to do things to clean up our oceans and to clean up the rivers.

Senator Sullivan has been an incredible partner in all of this, and I want to pay a lot of respect to him for his work.

Senator Inhofe is a powerful legislator, and when he puts his shoulder behind something, it tends to happen.

I want to particularly thank Senator Inhofe, who became an original co-sponsor of the SOS bill that Dan and I worked on.

I appreciate your focus on this. It is, I think, a really productive opportunity for us and I am grateful to you.

Isn't this bipartisanship?

Senators Barrasso, Inhofe, Crapo, Booker, and myself are the original co-sponsors.

In the Committee, we have cleared the Nuclear Innovation and Modernization Act, which is now running hotlines for passage on the Senate floor.

I am very interested in the prospect of advanced reactor concepts that hold the promise of being able to repurpose spent nuclear fuel.

I have a number of letters that I would ask to be submitted into the record that relate to the importance of proper investigation by trained professionals.

Sincere and thorough investigation is critical to these claims in a prosecutor's world.

I have read Judge Kavanaugh's decisions on mens rea, which have focused so far on individual defendants.

When you have a judicial nominee whose name has been put forward by the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation and by someone who has been named in open court as directing other criminal activity, in the event that those criminal…

As we showed earlier, when certain amici come before the D.C. Circuit, amici who tend to be associated with and funded by very powerful, very wealthy right-wing interests, they seem to have a better than 90 percent win rate in front of…

Gentlemen, your evaluation of the nominee related to his qualifications and produced a conclusion that he was 'well qualified'?