I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. — 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
