We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture of the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior contributed to the oil spill in the Gulf… — 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 Image
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 Image
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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 Image
