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" 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. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Poison
Political
Congress
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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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" We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways. "
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" Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way. "
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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 dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress. "
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Congress
" 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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Water
Land
Defense
" 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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" Republicans aren't cowards. Many will take the side of climate principle in a fair fight. But it is asking a lot of them to take a principled stand on climate when they don't see one corporate friend ready to help them. "
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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 result, they are basically able to block action in Congress that the public needs and the country deserves. "
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Control
Big
" Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sunrise
Life
You
" Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision - this money not only fuels the campaigns of many candidates; it also represents a threat to those who don't toe the polluter line on climate change. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Change
Decision
Supreme Court
" Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps. "
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Medical
Errors
Health
" 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 of Mexico in 2010. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Powerful
Management
Influence
" If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Government
Us
War
" We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Social Security
Must
Security
" Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Fraud
Speech
Free
" The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge when those branches are corrupted or consumed by passing passions. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
American
Branches
Check
" We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Seen
Drag
Big
" If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Money
Defend
Say
" Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Society
Open
Knowledge
" 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
Nation
" I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Think
Senate
Running
" It's pretty clear that Americans have a strong interest in knowing who's trying to influence their vote in elections. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Influence
Trying
Knowing
" I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Broken
People
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" I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Water
America
Good
" 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. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Men
Commitment
Intelligence
" Every one of us deserves a voice that our president will hear. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Us
Voice
President
" When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. "
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Great
Learning
Innovation
" 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
" Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that. "
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