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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.

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Mar 9, 2021

I think that carbon capture has a very important role in our climate solutions.

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Mar 9, 2021

I thought the industry saw the cliff that coal went off of and that oil was headed for.

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Mar 9, 2021

Well, I will try to work on that and build back better, because we are going to be doing a lot of building as a result of that bill.

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Mar 5, 2021

for 1 minute. Madam President, knowing how much my colleagues on the other side love unelected bureaucrats, I want to make sure it is clear that this was a unilateral decision made by an unelected bureaucrat to change the way hospitals are…

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Mar 5, 2021

nobody on our side likes this amendment, and we urge a ``no'' vote. It would tie the hands of local and State government. It would make it more difficult to rehire or interfere with recovery in our capital cities, so if we could all have a…

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Mar 5, 2021

And none could defend it. I ask your support on this. The Senator from Tennessee.

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Mar 2, 2021

I look forward to working with you to solve the urgent climate crisis that faces Rhode Island and the rest of the planet.

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Mar 2, 2021

the Antifa little lie that surrounds the big lie and the fake Trump protesters little lie that surrounds the big lie were complete bunk and just manufactured propaganda.

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Mar 2, 2021

As one Rhode Island fisherman said to me, things are getting weird out there, Sheldon. This is not my father's ocean.

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Mar 2, 2021

If you don't know what your methane load is, your methane leakage load, it is hard to assess how good natural gas is as a climate alternative.

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Mar 1, 2021

We have got a Nobel Prize winner, testifying under oath, about the catastrophic economic consequences we are looking at.

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Mar 1, 2021

We all know that it is going to change our physical world. We all know that it is going to raise sea levels.

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Mar 1, 2021

CBO...did a prediction of American health care costs were going to rise, which is this top line.

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Mar 1, 2021

We are going to have to re-site that naval station.

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Mar 1, 2021

It is probably the most warned of hazard that we have ever seen, but because the fossil fuel industry has got so much of our Congress locked up in its grip we have not responded to those warnings.

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Feb 24, 2021

I am just trying to figure out what your principle looks like as you describe it.

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Feb 24, 2021

Those who are most likely to have their hours cut, not get hired, are the least skilled, least experienced, least educated, and most in need of help.

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Feb 24, 2021

It is a lasting face of America for the people in the country who were bullied through this process.

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Feb 24, 2021

The United States had been the obstacle. The United States had been the laggard. The United States had been the spoiler.

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Feb 24, 2021

I hope when you are done improving enforcement, you then improve enforcement, and then you improve enforcement again.

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Feb 24, 2021

That really has to stop, in my view.

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Feb 24, 2021

We, I believe, in Congress live in a fairyland of folly about how serious this problem is...

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Feb 24, 2021

That is not the way America should present itself to the world.

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Feb 24, 2021

the previous administration took many actions to hurt the clean energy industry.

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