Sheldon Whitehouse

American lawyer and politician (born 1955)

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Any savings on the front end get eaten up and spat out by excess costs of fuel … Fuel economy standards have saved drivers hundreds of billions of dollars,
There’s a contrast between the thuggery and bullying world in which you could countenance a threat to tear down the Kennedy Center if your name doesn’t go on it and the actual legal world in which actions have to be approved by a board that has a fiduciary duty to put the welfare of the institution first. Those two are irreconcilable at this point.”
It has gone from bad to worse but the through line in all of this is that these trustees are under a legal duty to put the welfare of the centre itself first and, if they fail in that duty, they create a legal environment in which courts can and ultimately likely will step in to make sure that the centre is run lawfully.”
I had thought that investigations related to Jeffrey Epstein would be enough of a priority that when other sovereign nations ask you for Epstein-related information, and there’s public reporting that you’ve failed to comply with their requests, that that would be something you would know about and not be caught by surprise.”
Term limits and regular appointments would make the Court more representative of everyday Americans and help restore the Supreme Court to the proper independent body it was created to be,
We cracked $4 again per gallon last weekend in gas stations that I drove by, and that’s a big expense, particularly for families that get their income from driving around from job to job in the work van or the work truck,

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Environmental Protection Agency boss backs big budget cuts but Congress will get the final say

The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…

Senate Democrats accused the Trump administration of abandoning the Environmental Protection Agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment at a congressional hearing Wednesday, slamming agency leadership over a proposal to cut its budget in half

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