Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouseis an American politician and the junior United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 October 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.
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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.
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The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.
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When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.
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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.
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The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
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I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.
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We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.
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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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Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.
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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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We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
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If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.
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I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.