Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it's funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers.… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The 'Wall Street Journal' is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence,… — 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
