Sheldon Whitehouse

You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic…

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The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others…

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No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in…

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The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the…

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These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT…

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Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their…

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When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power…

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As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR…

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Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm…

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The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it's funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers.…

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The best way to shine a light on all of this 'dark money' flooding into our elections would be for Congress to…

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My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all…

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“Don’t condemn yourself or lose heart when you sometimes fail to measure up to your own principles; instead, get back up, embrace…

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Sometimes money isn't the determinant. But it sure as hell makes a huge difference. Nobody is saying "Well, thank God we don't…

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A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution…

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The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is…

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Whatever the motivation of the 'Wall Street Journal' and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial…

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I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs.…

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Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court…

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When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol…

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The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax…

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We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly…

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Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes…

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According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax…

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The big polluters are confident in their grip on Congress. They have basically achieved control of the Republican Party, and as a…

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Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of…

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The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge…

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Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children…

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The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President…

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Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a…

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If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in…

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The bottom line is that our kids deserve a brighter future. They deserve an opportunity to attend college, regardless of their wealth…

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As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war…

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We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture…

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In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner's laurel generation…

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Once people know that you can spend the money and that you're willing to spend the money and that you're set up…

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Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you…

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If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the…

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Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out…

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