Sheldon Whitehouse

Why did you choose the reimbursement system rather than the risk pool?

There is nothing republican or democrat about ending hospital-acquired infections.

The ACA has worked in Rhode Island and we have a remarkable story to tell.

Opposition letter dated August 1, 2017 to Hon. John Thune and Hon. Bill Nelson from Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator.

Vaccines save lives. They are the most important health innovation of modern times.

If confirmed, I will work to keep prevention at OASH a top priority.

I believe strongly in the value that older adults provide to their communities.

We have recently passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.

I want to thank you for the terrific work you have already done to try to make sure our country is prepared for bioterror threats.

I intend to file the following motion to H.R. 1628 and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. The motion is supported by Senators Brown, Franken, Van Hollen, Cardin, and Feinstein. There being no objection, the material…

Innovative clean energy solutions to reduce emissions and stave off those disastrous effects are vital to me.

Warming, acidifying, and rising oceans endanger our Rhode Island coasts.

The President's budget is very inconsistent with the bipartisan support for our national laboratories.

Climate change is real and that something needs to be done about it.

Senator Murkowski was the original co-founder of the Oceans Caucus and has been a part of this all along.

We are headed for a world in which there's actually more plastic waste mass in the ocean than there is living fish mass in the ocean.

If it's hitting home in Alaska, if it's hitting home around the world, we should not be paying zero attention.

One of the things that we are learning, as you know, is that billions of tons of plastic is going into the oceans.

Well, look, I think what I've said all along, and which I think many Democrats have said throughout this whole process, we keep knocking on that door and being told you're not welcome.

The first thing, the very first thing the Republicans in the Senate did when they got in, like their first day was to choose to go the reconciliation option and slam the door on us and let us know we were not welcome.

For one thing, the work that the Intelligence Committee is doing by virtue of touching in so many places on classified information is never going to be as public as we had hoped.

Well, I think, you know, we're going to have a whole lot of seats and a whole a lot of members of Congress we're going to have a really good chance at getting replaced.

If you had a responsible program, you would get 5 times as much done rather than waiting around for it to fail.

What we have here is the latest information from our Coastal Resources Management Council about sea level rise happening along our coasts.

We are looking at a potential economic catastrophe if we do not get ahead of this.