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Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Rhode Island since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as a United States Attorney from 1993 to 1998 and as the Attorney General of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003.

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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.

Brother, Carry, Counting, Early, Innovation, Silly

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

Gets, Medicare, Program, Ryan, Voucher, Years

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.

Alabama, Country, Hits, Islands, Rhode Island, Storms

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

Buses, Engines, Hard Work, Pollution Control, Reduce, School

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

Exception, Exception To The Rule, Office, Oval, Rule, Senators

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

Economy, Life, Marine, Ocean, Oceans, Way

The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.

Close, Jobs, Law, Moving, Permits, Wherever

I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in.

Believe, Fighting, Real, Think, Willing

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

Bay, Degrees, Narragansett, Warmer, Water, Winter

Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.

Climate, Dear, Ocean, Rising, Worldwide

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

Children, Real, Roof, Struggle, Struggling, Suffer

Once people know that you can spend the money and that you're willing to spend the money and that you're set up to spend the money in politics, then your threat to spend the money is as convincing as actually spending it.

Actually, Money In Politics, People, Spending, Willing

Sometimes money isn't the determinant. But it sure as hell makes a huge difference. Nobody is saying "Well, thank God we don't need to raise money any longer. " It's a very, very big deal to have money, and it is a very, very big deal to have more than your opponent.

Big, Differences, Needs, Nobody, Thank, Thank God

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.

Aryan, Fanatics, People, Running, Support, Wings