I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it's funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers. This is… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
