Author: Sheldon Whitehouse

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Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.

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

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science.

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

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.

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.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.

Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.

- Sheldon Whitehouse

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