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" The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Know
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Right
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" I am gravely concerned about climate change. "
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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 government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished. "
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" Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund. "
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" Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying. "
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" When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. "
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" If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal. "
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" The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change. "
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" Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate. "
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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 rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. "
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" The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them. "
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" These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform. "
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Medical
Best
Quality
" Make your life your work, not your talk. "
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Talk
Your
Life
" Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud. "
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Fraud
Speech
Free
" Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. "
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Tide
Change
" Any patient who has a serious illness requiring multiple doctors understands the frustration of lost medical charts, repeated procedures, or having to share the same information over and over with different doctors and nurses. "
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Medical
Lost
Information
" We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. "
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Social Security
Must
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" Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for. "
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Our
Responsibility
Parents
" When I was first elected to the Senate, I was fortunate to be appointed to the Intelligence Committee. There, I saw up close the dedication and commitment of the men and women of our intelligence agencies. "
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Men
Commitment
Intelligence
" As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up for our seniors and fight any back door efforts to cut benefits. "
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You
Stand Up
Stand
" Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that. "
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Personal
Political
Special
" Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air. "
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Poison
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Congress
" America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II. "
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Feet
" As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent. "
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" I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they can to get the education they need for the jobs of tomorrow. "
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Work Hard
Work
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" If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so. "
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Money
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Say
" To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what's most important. "
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Priorities
Test
You
" The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees' careful work to open American politics to corporate influence. "
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Decision
Work
Politics
" Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students. "
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Best
Opportunity
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" Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare. "
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