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Sheldon Whitehouse
@SenWhitehouse
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State.
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Good to see ’s Shark Camp on the ! URI is doing great work getting Rhode Island high school students interested the world of marine biology.
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I'm fighting to ensure that every American who works hard can enjoy a comfortable retirement.
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Contrary to what Republicans in Congress say, the only "reform" Social Security needs is expansion. We can do that pretty easily if the wealthiest Americans start paying their fair share.
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Let’s remember, whichever way Garland chooses to go, the Jan. 6 Committee performed a valuable service laying out a predicate for possible civil cases — provable by preponderance of the evidence, & with discovery under oath — to knock Trump off ballots for fomenting insurrection.
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Poll after poll shows that 80-90% of Americans are sick of dark money and want it out of our politics. Yet my Republican colleagues don’t have much to say about why they oppose my DISCLOSE Act…
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. and I are working together to fight dark money influence and pass the DISCLOSE Act. Glad we had a chance to talk it over (and joke a bit) on last night.
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POTUS arrives in RI on lovely summer day.
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Politicians should be accountable to everyday citizens –not dark money. ’s DISCLOSE Act would let us know who's paying for what when it comes to our elections.
It would've let us know what groups spent millions to help pack the Court with ultra-right wing Justices.
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And yes, fifteen months before the “Tea Party” we blew up the boat.
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Nice to see this recognition of the Gaspee Raid printed in the BOSTON! Globe. I’d only add that there’s a strong case that Captain Lindsey of the Hannah led the Gaspee onto the shallows — that this was design not accident.
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For too long, dark money has had too much power over our elections.
Our DISCLOSE Act will shine a light on dark money donors, keep foreign money out of our elections, and ensure Montanans know exactly who's paying for online ads.
It got a hearing today. Now let's get it passed.
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Olin Thompson was a force in the courtroom and in his fight against ALS. Sending my deepest condolences to Christa and their boys. We will keep searching for a cure for this brutal disease.
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The Biden administration can do more on climate, and with legislative options now closed, the President must act. It's time for executive Beast Mode.
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Because of radical Supreme Court rulings, shadowy groups with deep pockets can (and do) spend millions to influence our elections and government.
We must pass ’s DISCLOSE Act to shine a light on the problem & ensure Washington doesn't just work for billionaires.
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The dark money that floods our whole political system makes it impossible for people to know who funds our elections—and what motivates them. I support ’s efforts to pass the DISCLOSE Act to shine a light on dark money.
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People instinctively know when their voices are being drowned out & big corporations always seem to come out on top. My DISCLOSE Act is the answer.
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Money talks, and dark money whispers. It’s time to get secretive political spending out of our democracy for once and for all.
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Heading to the Senate Rules Committee hearing for my DISCLOSE Act, which would get dark money out of our politics for good. Tune in for my testimony soon.
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We can’t sit back and let clean American manufacturers get undercut by their polluting competitors overseas. With our Clean Competition Act, we can cut carbon pollution and improve American competitiveness. It’s a win-win!
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Current law isn’t flexible enough to allow us to respond effectively to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but there’s a fix. We can build on the President’s KleptoCapture initiative by passing the bipartisan Asset Seizure for Ukrainian Reconstruction Act & put oligarchs on notice.
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Today’s Judiciary hearing keeps the focus on Putin’s oligarchs & their finances. The Russian government is inextricably linked to criminal billionaires, & we must take every opportunity to go after them. Their ill-gotten assets could provide billions in relief for Ukraine.
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The Citizens United disaster, in a nutshell:
In 2008, before the ruling, billionaires contributed $31 million to federal campaigns.
In 2020, billionaires contributed $1.2 billion.
That’s a 40-fold increase.
It never had to be like this.
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Spc. Matthew Turcotte served his nation with bravery and honor, and we lost him long before his time. The Spc. Matthew R. Turcotte Post Office will stand as an enduring reminder of our nation’s gratitude to Spc. Turcotte and his family.
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Secretive groups who stall progress on issues from climate action to gun safety shouldn’t be allowed to influence our elections from the shadows—we need to pass the DISCLOSE Act!
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Good news for people who love functioning democracies & hate dark money: we’re getting the ball rolling on my DISCLOSE Act tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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Breaking ground on a modernized Airport Connector that will improve the overall experience of flying out of . Many more job-creating upgrades to RI’s roads, bridges, and airports on the way thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill we passed.
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Democrats have to get serious about loosening the fossil fuel industry’s choke hold on the Republican party, and corporate America needs to decide if they will get off the sidelines.
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Looking forward to this convo later today. Tune in!
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JOIN US on Monday, July 18 at 4:30pm ET for an interactive Twitter Spaces conversation with advocacy experts and @SenWhitehouse to protect the people’s interests while expelling dark money from politics. RSVP: twitter.com/i/spaces/1ZkKz
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For decades, Roe allowed women to make deeply personal decisions with input from their doctors. Now, the Supreme Court’s radical justices have stripped away those protections and endangered countless lives.
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We must codify Roe into law and do everything we can to protect a woman’s right to choose.
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Behind the scenes, right-wing dark money groups groomed & selected radical justices for the Trump Administration to nominate. Then, those groups wrote new anti-abortion laws designed for their handpicked justices to rule on. This is a long-running operation, & it’s not over yet.
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With the Supreme Court rolling back women’s rights, we cannot just throw in the towel and give up on parents and children by leaving our broken child care system the way it is. We need to keep pushing.
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Big corporations and special interests have our democracy in a stranglehold, and it all comes down to their dark money spending. I have a plan – the DISCLOSE Act – to get rid of this rot and make our government work for the people.
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Just to give you an idea how preposterous this is, “Honest Elections Project” is the registered “fictitious name” of a dark money organization. Maybe investigate itself? 😂
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NEW: An email reveals the event will take place at an "undisclosed location" & will feature an "in depth review of the network of left-wing money" that they claim is funding @marceelias & others working to protect voting rights. documented.net/media/alec-hon
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Making child care affordable will lower one of the biggest costs in many families’ budgets, and reconciliation is the best vehicle we have to get it done. Leaving child care out is a terrible blow to working families.
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Dark money has given the ultra-rich yet another way to trample the will of the American people. It’s time to get rid of it and put power back in the hands of voters. Let’s pass my DISCLOSE Act and get it done.
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Big Oil has made a killing off of artificially high gas prices. @RepKhanna and I have a plan to take those excessive gains and send them back to working Americans in the form of a windfall profits clawback. Let’s get it done.
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