Look, the most important thing to Mitch McConnell is his little reclusive group of billionaire donors. And the most important thing to them is control the Supreme Court that doesn`t have to answer to the voters. So, it will do what they…
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Sheldon Whitehouse is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitehouse has focused on a range of issues including environmental protection, healthcare reform, and campaign finance reform. He has been a vocal advocate for addressing climate change and has worked to promote policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting natural resources. Whitehouse has also been involved in efforts to reform the political campaign finance system, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in political donations.
I’m confident that we will have them. The reason I’m confident that we will have them is what you just quoted from Jane Mayer’s expose which we know from polling and that is that a conservative tea partier hates special interests…
We must get senate Dems unified on climate on a real reconciliation bill, lest we get sucked into bipartisanship mud where we fail on climate.
I am here for one of my favorite days of the year on the Senate floor because today is the 249th anniversary of the Gaspee raid. I can only imagine what I am going to do next year when it is the 250th anniversary of the Gaspee raid. I may…
in my opening speech about the rightwing scheme to capture the Court, the Supreme Court, I described the secret strategy memo that Lewis Powell wrote on the eve of his appointment to the Court about how to deploy corporate political power…
There is no doubt to me that this spending is necessary to see if we can even catch up to what we have unfortunately allowed to happen around the world with regard to climate change.
The President has issued a memorandum on establishing the fight against corruption as a core United States national security interest.
If you are a wealthy cheat in a partnership, your odds of getting audited are slightly higher than your odds of getting hit by a meteorite.
It is absolutely critical that the focus of that information reporting be on the wealthy tax evaders.
I would like to know if any of those, and if so how many of those, involved potential false statements made by nonprofits regarding political activity.
For the sake of fairness and for the sake of the budget, it makes a lot more sense to go after cheating by the big guys than focusing on working people.
There is not nor ever has been serious dispute about the basic elements of this in the scientific community.
At this point, it appears that the department has not made a real decision on whether or not President Trump committed obstruction of justice, and we are entitled, I think, to that decision and to a credible defense of it.
before I begin, let me just say a word of thanks to my two colleagues from Oklahoma for this moment that we have had on the Senate floor. I was privileged to be waiting to give my remarks to hear them speak, and I thought this was a…
here we go again. Just a few weeks ago, the Senate debated Vanita Gupta's nomination for Associate Attorney General, so let's review the bidding from that. Gupta was eminently qualified for her role. She had support from the foremost law…
I would be a no vote on the provision embedded in this amendment that creates first and second class States for purposes of the INFRA Program.
It made no sense not to just clear the air of this, go with the judge's decision with the department and every reason to pursue it.
It seems that that is an incentive to drive jobs offshore, and it seems that it is an unfair competitive advantage for the bigger company.
as we go through trying to reform our tax code to get rid of some of the crummy ways that it has been used to help special interests at the expense of regular taxpayers, if we can help reinforce the advantages for durable conservation…
biodiversity in the oceans is a serious problem, and it is going to get rapidly worse if coral reefs vanish as a piece of the environmental infrastructure.





