Sheldon Whitehouse

The coal ash standard that the Obama administration committed to in 2008 was the result of a dam collapse in Tennessee.

It is a win. The only thing I would distinguish a little bit is the example of the boy who went into the pool filled with piranhas and alligators and snakes.

We are seeing the same thing in Rhode Island. Indeed, Newport, RI, is known for being a summer destination. The first summer visitors to Newport, RI, the first people who made it the summer capital of the United States were traders from…

Climate science doesn't tell you that every day is going to get a tiny little bit warmer. Climate science tells you that putting that extra energy into the system will make the weather extremes worse, both warmer and colder. So the fact…

May the record reflect that this is perhaps the first reference in the history of the Senate to dinosaur flatulence.

I will turn it back to you. Because one of the things that Hawaii is famous for that we do not have much of in Rhode Island is tropical coral reefs. Coral reefs are affected by acidification, by runoff, by warming, and they can bleach…

I appreciate that very much. Let me say for the Record I would be Morgan Freeman all day long and all night long, for that matter.

I am just waiting to hear what character I remind the Senator of, because this could be for good or it could be for very ill.

I thank the distinguished chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee for his remarks, and for the relentlessness, enthusiasm, and passion which he has pursued putting together this extraordinarily strong bill for our veterans. I look…

The extraction, development, and refinement of tar sands are harmful to communities' health in both Canada and the U.S.

It is a worrisome question to me, and I confess I do not have an answer to it in mind myself.

There are all these dangers of how you keep that focus and how you keep that task properly done.

The great adverse relationship that the Founding Fathers built into the Constitution was the adverse relationship between the legislative and the executive branches.

I think there is pretty broad agreement that that is a good idea.

I think if the person is an appointee of the chief judge of the Court or the Chief Justice of the United States, they risk becoming the pet lawyer of that individual.

The gap is actually on your end in terms of having the capacity to look into the breadth of various programs.

So as far as you are concerned, nothing was withheld from you.

As cochairs of the Senate Oceans Caucus, Senator Murkowski and I express bipartisan support for the four pending international fisheries management treaties.

One of the ways that I find I can help at home is to help support infrastructure projects, particularly since we have a national infrastructure deficit in a great number of areas--highways, water facilities, so forth.

So there is an immediate value to spending in either direction in terms of economic recovery, but the long-term value is for the spending that is on infrastructure that creates a lasting asset.

I hope that you keep in your heart, as you go about your job, these teachers and these local school administrators who are feeling stifled and frustrated by this compliance-driven regime that they are forced to live in.

The education oversight establishment as a collective creature has become so burdensome that it is now interfering with classroom teachers' ability to manage their classrooms.

I am not an education expert. I was a prosecutor.

I continue to urge the administration on health care to set a target for delivery system savings.

The failure to produce an articulable goal for health care savings from delivery system reform is a really serious failing.