Sheldon Whitehouse

I do not think we look much like a city on a hill when we become the haven for crooked gains of criminals and kleptocrats.

I think it is important for Americans to get a sense of how things are going in their democracy, to have a fair report of how much the highest-income earners are actually paying in taxes.

This will not happen again.

I believe that Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama. And that is saying a lot.

I completely disapprove of and will fight to my last breath to prevent attacking Medicare and Medicaid and other Federal programs and taking benefits away from people in order to achieve savings.

We have a ridiculous budget process, and as a result of that, we end up with ridiculous budgets.

Nobody has been more eloquent than Chairman Enzi in understanding how broken our existing budget process is.

It includes over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts that are clearly going no place.

It was cooked up in the laboratories of the Koch brothers and a bunch of other creepy billionaires who want to remake America in Ayn Rand's image.

We cost a fortune more per capita than any other industrialized country, and we have life expectancy comparable to Chile and the Czech Republic.

We have seen the Budget Committee become 100 percent partisan and zero percent meaningful.

Let me first thank my friend from Oklahoma. We often disagree; indeed, we often violently disagree on matters of environmental issues. But we have been teammates--indeed, close teammates on the chemical safety legislation, which has been…

I do not think that is the place where we want to be.

I have a general concern that environmental issues get very short shrift in trade negotiations.

Give me some reassurance that this is an issue that each of you would be willing to consider in trade negotiations.

In the Senate, there are moments of considerable bipartisanship. One area of bipartisanship has been the Ocean's Caucus that exists in the Senate.

Bipartisan--passed by unanimous consent.

Thirty to 1 seems like a lot, particularly given what is happening along our coasts.

Because we are on the losing end of 30:1 in Rhode Island.

What used to be adequate is not adequate.

As Members of Congress, we need to make sure that FEMA's mapping gets up to speed and that communities are not being asked to rely on false information and bad mapping estimates.

I now yield, per the pending agreement, to my distinguished friend from Connecticut. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Rubio). The Senator from Connecticut.

I think we need to fix that. I know we have been through a problem of earmarks that received a lot of justified criticism. Our response was to abandon this responsibility entirely. I think that was an overreaction.

I think that as we are beginning to address these WRDA issues, one of the areas in which we can become more efficient and more helpful to the Army Corps would be to try to find a good, honorable, and transparent way for Congress and this…

I am interested in your take on what sea level rise infrastructure impacts our ports are looking at.