Sheldon Whitehouse

S. 1202, the SAFE Act, introduced by Senator Whitehouse, is designed to help Federal and State agencies more effectively prepare for and adjust to the growing impacts of climate change on our Nation's natural resources.

Along the coasts, is it correct that there are often wetland verges between the upland and either the ocean coast or a lake or river coast that exist in a kind of dynamic environment?

The Service applauds your efforts in introducing the SAFE Act.

America's natural resources--our rivers and bays, our forests and marshes, our fish and animals--are our birthright and our legacy.

GAO previously noted that as the manager of vast lands and natural resources, the Federal Government has real fiscal risk from climate change through these properties.

Assateague Island, one of the great treasures, is at risk today because of the changing climate in this country.

As the Senator from Maryland and me representing Rhode Island, coastal resiliency is something we have to pay a lot of attention to.

Some of the natural resources that we find on this earth that are at risk and are actually suffering some consequences already are ones that in turn provide benefit to the environment.

The acronym is the SAFE Act, which stands for Safeguarding America's Future and the Environment.

To protect them and help them adapt in the face of climate change is to protect our economy and way of life.

As we prepared it, we asked the Government Accountability Office for a report on the adaptation efforts by the Federal Government within our natural resource agencies.

I know our committee will try, as we have in the past, to work together in a bipartisan way.

To protect these vital natural resources and help them adapt in the face of climate change, I would hope we can move this bill forward.

The report was pretty stark and explained the vulnerability of some of these vital natural resources from rising temperatures from worsening drought, wildfire, rising sea levels, shrinking snow coverage and flow.

I appreciate very, very much the work that you do, and I want you to pass on to Attorney General Holder my congratulations for the dedication that he has brought to this pursuit, particularly as exemplified by the Gameover Zeus takedown…

I would like to thank you again, Senator Whitehouse, for your support and participation in that launch.

One could say, 'So many botnets, so little time.'

I think you are doing a good job, but there is a cultural divide sometimes between the criminal prosecutors and the civil attorneys for the Government.

As Senator Whitehouse indicated.

So it happened in South Carolina. It can happen to any company, any business, any organization in America, and our laws are not where they should be.

I will call this hearing of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism to order, and I thank everyone for being here.

I have heard from Rhode Island schools that if the local police are involved, they often do not want a school conducting a parallel investigation because they prefer to keep certain facts confidential for a period of time.

A woman recants, but you go ahead with the excited utterance and you make the prosecution because of the statistical likelihood of re-offending.

I was a U.S. Attorney. I was an Attorney General. I come at this from a little bit of a different perspective, and it's a little bit alarming to hear how much completely untrained, completely inexperienced, completely unauthorized people…

If the person presents the risk of being a serial offender, there are very good reasons why sometimes the law enforcement process goes forward even with an uncooperative victim.