Sheldon Whitehouse

I am on the Health Committee with him and I think we made really good progress in that area.

I applaud Chairman Grassley for his efforts to improve oversight over Federal dollars.

It is long past time to update the law governing the Federal Government's role in reforming juvenile justice.

I really applaud Chairman Grassley's efforts to improve the juvenile justice system when it fails the children that it is supposed to serve.

The ranking member of the Budget Committee is not on the floor, so let me take this opportunity on behalf of the Democratic members of the Budget Committee to express my appreciation to our chairman. We obviously disagree on the substance…

The Supreme Court specifically left the disclosure of these sources of these secret contributions to Congress. So the Supreme Court actually has given us this job. I urge that we take it up.

The premise of this is that climate change is not real and not urgent, which puts that side of the aisle at odds with NASA, the Department of Defense, every major American scientific society, corporate leaders in their home States, and…

Just to get things in order here, I ask unanimous consent that first Senator Paul be recognized to call up an amendment and then after that, that Senator Wyden be recognized to call up an amendment and for 3 minutes; that Senator Coons be…

Well, it is inspiring to hear that, but I am struck by the same fact that my colleague, Senator Warren, was struck by.

I look forward to working with you to enable that bill to move forward and get passed into law.

But if you are a chemical company and you have a chemical that you see, uh-oh, there are some problems coming out here, we are starting to see some evidence that it is carcinogenic or poisonous in some way, if you can get it onto the…

In your experience with the rulemaking process, do the industry participants in the administrative process of rulemaking to some degree control the pace of that rulemaking through the actions that they can take in that rulemaking process?

As a Federal official involved in health and safety regulation, is it your view that our sovereign States under our Federal system of government also have an important role in health and safety regulation to protect their own citizens?

I think we have a really significant opportunity to pass a significant piece of legislation.

What I see over and over again is bills that come to the floor or bills that come to the committee that should be bipartisan, that could be non-controversial that have a stowaway loaded into them that causes partisan problems that are…

This has always been a strongly bipartisan bill. There has been a lot of support for it.

This bill has a new section that wasn't in, I don't think I have ever seen it before in the earlier versions of the Sportsmen's Act, which is this Section 6, giving people the right to run around water resources development projects with…

This is a bipartisan issue. It's about doing it right versus doing it wrong, doing it stupid versus doing it smart, and we ought to be able to work together on it.

It's really important that we solve the question of ownership of this data.

There's a role for government in protecting against some of the abuses that are possible here.

That data should be ultimately the property of the patient, not of anybody else.

It's time for a reboot of the Meaningful Use Program. It's been run for quite a while now.

This is not big government forcing anybody's hand. This is not a mandate.

Why do you not think you can quantify it? Isn't that part of your job?

No matter how great the environmental cost?