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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.
I first thank my friend from Alaska for his enthusiasm for getting the Coast Guard legislation completed. As a fellow ocean State, albeit a somewhat smaller ocean State, we are strong supporters of our Coast Guard and appreciate very much…
I am here for my 189th ``Time to Wake Up'' speech to discuss the Republican tax bill. Who knew? Folks watching today's debate from home are probably wondering what the tax bill has to do with climate change. That is a good question. They…
That is 2 percent of the $8.6 billion that the pharmaceutical industry makes selling just the prescribed opioid products, setting aside the illicit stuff that comes over the border.
Can I just make sure that you have somebody on your staff coordinating with Rhode Island to make sure that you are supporting their work and everybody is pulling smoothly together on parity disclosure and enforcement?
We, in the negotiations around CARA and the Cures Act, got a bipartisan commitment for an extra billion dollars to be spent on opioid treatment.
it is very disappointing and discouraging to see safe and safely operating nuclear plants that produce carbon-free power have to close down
For the sake of the process convenience for all, the high intensity states are going to pay the price.
I have been persistent about trying to open the possibility of next generation advanced nuclear technologies.
Ensuring high quality care for individuals in long-term facilities was the central subject of an influential 1986 Institute of Medicine report.
There is plenty of money available to lower prices, pay for research, and still deliver a good return for investors.
Moody's Investors Service is one of America's credit rating agencies. It is not an environmental organization. It doesn't have any activity in the debate over climate change. That is not what it does. What Moody's does is to analyze the…
And I look forward to working with you to make sure that somewhere in your office there is somebody who really is expert and focused on our coasts and coastal infrastructure, because we are past, I think, being able to overlook that.
I understand from our conversation that, as a trained engineer, you will follow responsible climate science wherever it leads...
The GAO has said that number goes above $50 billion annually before the end of the century in coastal losses...
But that when you are looking at GAO saying, look, it could be $5 trillion in coastal damage in the decades ahead, and it is going to be $50 billion a year, that is something worth paying more attention to.
Donors Trust is a group that has no business purpose whatsoever. Its function is to launder the identities of donors.
Did that report on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act take into account any health or climate benefits from regulating carbon emissions?
You were at the Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis, which did a report looking at compliance and energy cost increases.
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