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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.
Indeed, in my remarks earlier, I referred to this pipeline as possibly an economic zombie at the current oil prices. I have not seen a single report that this pipeline can be built and operated properly at oil prices where they are right…
May I inquire of the Senator--we will be shortly voting on a number of measures. One is a side-by-side to the Schatz amendment which includes a quotation from an environmental impact statement, and the quotation is as follows…
I'm all for getting rid of this artificial problem by going to a universal health care system.
We've just multiplied by six the population that's at risk of getting their insurance thrown off.
This is going backward, not forwards, even by the terms of the conversation we're having here.
Why we're moving this around to hurt these nurses and to expand the population that is at risk...
It seems to me that we're engaged in a discussion that is fundamentally meaningless because all we're doing is moving a significant margin point and its incentives up and down.
Federal requirements, and the State bureaucracies that are necessary to help implement them, have far too significant a footprint.
To abandon accountability... is to accept the status quo of inequity in student outcomes.
The most effective schools are driven primarily by teachers and school leaders.
We owe our kids at least a system in which they have a meaningful and equitable opportunity to learn.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an intrusion on State and local Jim Crow laws.
I understand that there are lots of concerns--and I share those concerns--about making sure that the benefit of education is spread evenly across the children of this country.
What I'm hearing from my principals' and teachers' world is that the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives.
I do want to, with unanimous consent of all present, put into the record a combination press release and letter issued by the ranking member of the committee, actually inviting the Republican witnesses not to attend.
So a vulnerable person who goes out on a bad air day and experiences no apparent, immediate ill effects, doesn't feel shortness of breath, doesn't cough, doesn't in any way have a present sense during the bad air day that they have been…
And so the American Thoracic Society, in your view, is also reputable and reliable when it makes a recommendation like this on a matter with its expertise?
So a private citizen listening to this hearing can take comfort that the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee is a reputable and reliable body?
The existing standard, the previous standard, the 75 parts per billion standard, was criticized at the time that it was adopted by the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
EPA's analysis that the benefits are between $6 billion and $13 billion and the costs around $4 billion, that analysis is not a first effort by EPA.
The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, in its recommendations to the Administrator in June, was so clear about its findings.
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