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We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Health
#Plant
#Pollution
#Power
#Through
I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Believe
#Change
#Climate Change
#Real
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#American Dream
#American
#Country
#Way
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Best
#Errors
#Health
#Medical
#Quality
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Against
#Institution
#Powerful
#Protect
The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Air
#American
#Know
#People
#Safe
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Children
#Find
#Parents
#Real
#Temporary
The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Illusion
#Real
#Science
#Serious
#Win
You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Rise
#School
#Science
#Sea
#Simple
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Decision
#Election
#Open
#Politics
#Work
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Democracy
#Generation
#Responsibility
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Energy
#Land
#Match
#Research
#Water
Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country's future.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Children
#Country
#Future
#Need
#Smart
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Bible
#God
#History
#Hope
#Humility
My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Government
#Influence
#Listening
#People
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
#Men
#Path
#Support
#Walk
#Women
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Frustration
#Information
#Lost
#Medical
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Health
#Lost
#Medical
#Now
#Surgical
No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That's a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Fraud
#Legal
#Lie
#Political
#Right
From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#America
#Change
#Equality
#Gun
#Marriage
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#American
#Carbon
#Environmental
#People
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
#Architecture
#Control
#Others
#Science
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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
#Amazing
#Great
#Learning
#Process
#Way
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