Sheldon Whitehouse

To me, that's a bureaucratic failure.

Because one thing more dangerous than climate change is lying.

Approving this nominee for CEQ would be so preposterous that it would be like appointing Caligula's horse in that the real question becomes about the power of our fossil fuel emperors and the spine of the Senate.

A nominee who can't follow the thread from carbon pollution to ocean warming to sea level rise, who imagines science that is not there and ignores science that is there is a preposterous nominee.

I think what we will find is that it actually helps the public fisc as well.

There is another bipartisan opportunity to improve care. In this case, it probably would lower expense, but that would not be the point, and that area is end of life care, advanced care.

Promise me that you will work with us on that. Promise me that you will not get ideological when it comes to solving this problem and that you will work to solve it in a sensible, bipartisan, thoughtful way.

But I hope, very much, that in office you will take the side of the American people and not just the pharmaceutical industry.

I very much hoped you would say that and use the TVA that way, and I think your ability to model for the rest of the country.

There has been really good bipartisan work done here.

I was very pleased to be here for the remarks of my colleagues and friends, and I would just respond by saying that we are all for growth. We are all for growth of the American economy. I think, on this side, we are just a little bit less…

I think that there is significant technological opportunity to be achieved in that space, but it is rather hard to achieve technological opportunity in a space in which there is no value proposition to the investor.

As long as there is no price on carbon, the corollary of that is that there is no benefit to low carbon.

They have really dialed in on the health concerns about tobacco.

CVS is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and we're very proud of that company, and we're particularly proud of that company's decision to take cigarettes out of its stores.

Their claim is that each bill is a simple fix for a narrowly tailored regulation, but the devil is always in the details.

However, it does require you looking at both sides of the ledger and to have public health benefits actually count for something.

Industry has asked for a free pass in this Administration, and the majority seems happy to oblige.

The industry could truly litigate this into the indefinite future, for time immemorial.

For what it is worth, I have information that the EPA has estimated the benefits of this requirement for new residential wood heaters at $3.4 billion to $7.6 billion annually.

These bills seek to delay and defang environmental standards pushing compliance dates for regulations or stripping authority from the Clean Air Act.

The testimony from Senator Burr was intended to focus on vehicles; to quote him, 'used exclusively for racing and used only on the race track.'

Get used to it because, in my view, this EPA is going to regularly work with industry to create artificial delay.

Over and over again, instead of this Committee looking at both sides of the ledger, we hear only about one side of the ledger.

Ozone causes bad air days in a State like mine located downwind from industry facilities to our west.