Sheldon Whitehouse

It is not really controversial. It is just politically controversial.

Does the Senator know that, in Cumberland, RI, there used to be coal mining? In fact, there are still coal mines underground in New Cumberland, WV. Every once in a while, one collapses, so we have been there.

I hope very much that, as we look at WIFIAs and TIFIAs, we can at least be thinking about the prospect of a coastal IFIA.

So it is a really serious issue for Rhode Island and I think other coastal States to address the problem of the new pressures on our coasts of storms and seas.

I do think that there is a role for TIFIA and its water cousin, WIFIA, in such a bill.

All of the signals are suggesting that he's already cooperating with the FBI, and may have been for some time. This would be just another bit of leverage for the prosecutors to make sure that he was cooperating and giving truthful…

What do we do as a country when we see that monopolistic behavior?

When there is real competition, it tends to work.

That may be the most disgraceful Senate process in the history of this body and it is certainly a closed door deal.

I can remember once when our Republican colleagues were so sensitive to regular order in the Senate...

I am very worried that the EPA will not do much enforcing of environmental laws during this Administration.

The founding fathers' word for this would, I think, have been corruption.

I think that the Environmental Protection Agency has, in a nutshell, been captured by a corporate polluter raiding party

Obviously, if you have to run the ability to even ask information requests through headquarters, that gives headquarters the chance to either just create massive institutional delay or even put the kibosh on an investigation from its very…

Here, we often see the industry coming in and saying, oh, boy, look how much it is going to cost us to clean up and this is a terrible cost.

Polluters never want to reduce their pollution and regularly attack the Clean Air Act based on overblown costs that always ignore the other side of the ledger, the public health and other benefits of reducing pollution.

Rhode Island parents should not have to tell their children they cannot play outside on what looks like a perfect summer day because it is a bad air day caused by out-of-State, upwind pollution.

Coastal States are seeing a particular problem, particularly with the sea level rise projections that NOAA and that State coastal officials are predicting.

As we are investing in coastal infrastructure, we need to also make sure we are investing in the planning and the data.

There is no point building to a set of conditions that are not going to be the case in 20 years, not if you are building infrastructure.

I hope that the Administration will not try to jam Congress on an infrastructure bill, but rather work in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion.

I think this Committee provides that opportunity, in the past under him and now under Chairman Barrasso.

I am actually optimistic and hopeful that we are going to be able to get something done on infrastructure.

I think that it would have diverted from the trust of the hearing for her to come there.

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