Sheldon Whitehouse

Do you agree that climate change is happening, that human activity plays a huge role in it and that the consequences of doing nothing could be dire and expensive?

For what it is worth, the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Business Alliance has called renewable energy an economic opportunity for Wisconsin that will 'result in business growth, job creation, cleaner air and a quicker path to energy…

Because we have invested intelligently in energy efficiency and is that figure that really matters at the pocketbook.

Irrespective of the amount of damage that CO2 might do? There is no number from CO2 harm that could cause you to change your point of view on that?

But the impact on your ratepayers could be felt through climate change as well as through just the rates that they pay, could they not?

I'm concerned that when there is an FDA or other regulatory disadvantage that a company must bear to bring a product online, that hits a lot harder on the small company than it does on the big one.

I think it is important to note the history we began with because it casts a spotlight on whether or not we really have a legitimate discrepancy in scientific opinion.

The question of carbon pollution continues to be debated.

Today I wish to thank my friend Senator Bill Nelson for his support of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2014, S. 2839, which I introduced with Senators Portman, Klobuchar, Ayotte, and Leahy in the 113th Congress. Senator…

We have begun to see... a penchant for taking a piece of legislation that ought to pass... and then adding to it something controversial.

It doesn't save money to save money on infrastructure. All it does is move costs to the private sector.

Rhode Island motorists pay nearly $500 million every year in car repairs for whacking into potholes and dealing with the crummy road infrastructure.

I am suggesting kind of two parts to the benefit. One is that it would create resources to help the victims, but it is also a sanction when hotel owners who are letting this happen lose their hotels and when Website owners who are allowing…

While the next panel is gathering, can I just express my appreciation to Senator Klobuchar for including in her bill a provision that Senator Sessions and I have supported to make sure that it is clear that the U.S. Marshals can deploy in…

May I say how much I appreciate the open amendment process. ____________________

Reserving the right to object, during the Keystone debate, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee chair said we should get beyond the discussion as to whether climate change is real--

The set of problems that I see and hear about a lot in Rhode Island is how inefficient the testing burden is.

We've got to do a lot better.

This whole exercise began with the recognition that there were kids who simply weren't being heard, particularly in State legislatures.

From the political perspective, if you are a lobbyist for a big special interest and you go to the Appropriations Committee to get some special deal for your client, you have got to fight for that every single year

What are we going to do about the $1.2 trillion that goes out the back door of the tax code through loopholes?

There is a quality of this just being a very seamy and disreputable side of the legislative business

There is nothing that I would be more pleased with than a nonpartisan conversation about the debt and the deficit.

When we open up with blaming the Obama administration for debt levels that relate back to a war he did not start, tax cuts he actually tried to overrule, and an economic downturn that caused him to take office at a time when the economy…

Now, both Social Security and Social Security disability are funded by the payroll tax, correct?