Sheldon Whitehouse
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Recent News About Sheldon Whitehouse
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In Wake Of Cascading Supreme Court Ethics Scandals, Whitehouse Chairs Courts Subcommittee Hearing On His Comprehensive Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, And Transparency Act
Yesterday afternoon, Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights in a hearing entitled, “Ensuring an Impartial Judiciary: Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023.
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Whitehouse, Colleagues Introduce Bill To Shield Americans From Sky-High Credit Card Interest Rates
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have introduced legislation to protect Americans from sky-high interest rates for credit cards and other consumer loans.
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Whitehouse, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Invest in Blue Economy, Spark Innovation in Coastal Communities
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has joined colleagues to introduce the Ocean Regional Opportunity and Innovation (Ocean ROI) Act.
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Whitehouse Launches “Making The Case” Podcast To Shine Light On Far-Right Scheme To Capture Supreme Court
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Federal Courts, today launched a new podcast series aimed at shining a light on the far-right scheme to remake the Supreme Court in service to shadowy billionaires and big special interests.
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On World Oceans Day, Whitehouse And Padilla Introduce Pair Of Bills To Reduce Ocean Shipping Emissions
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) today introduced a pair of bills aimed at reducing air pollution created by the global shipping industry.
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Durbin, Whitehouse Statement On Harlan Crow’s Continued Refusal To Provide Key Information Regarding Gifts And Travel Given To Justice Thomas
After receiving response to their May 26th letter, Durbin and Whitehouse say that “all options are on the table moving forward”
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Reed & Whitehouse Deliver $2 Million to Expand Block Island Health Services
In an effort to help expand health care services on Block Island and ensure residents have access to the high level of quality patient care they deserve, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse delivered $2 million in federal funding today to help the Block Island Medical Center advance its renovation and expansion plans.
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Reed, Whitehouse & Magaziner Announce $500,000 to Support Revitalization of Blighted Colonial Knife Factory Into Budding What Cheer Flower Farm
What Cheer Flower Farm in Olneyville has $500,000 more reasons to cheer as it continues to remediate and redevelop a 2.7 acre site in Providence that used to be home to the Colonial Knife factory, but has sat vacant for years.
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Reed & Whitehouse Help Land Another $9M for Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport
U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse on may 24 announced that the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC) has been awarded over $9 million in federal funding for operational upgrades and planning at Rhode Island’s T.F. Green International Airport.
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Reed, Whitehouse, Colleagues Reintroduce Affordability is Access Act
As extremist Republican state legislatures and right-wing, GOP-appointed judges and justices step up their assault on a woman’s right to reproductive freedom, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined with Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and 23 of their Senate colleagues to reintroduce the Affordability is Access Act.
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Sen. Whitehouse, Mep Aubry Lead Transatlantic Letter Calling for Climate Talks Free of Fossil Fuel Industry Interference
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Member of the European Parliament Manon Aubry today sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell urging the officials to rid COP28 and all future international climate talks of persistent interference from the fossil fuel industry.
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Whitehouse Chairs Courts Subcommittee Hearing on Judicial Conference’s Management of 2011 Ethics Complaints Against Justice Thomas
May 17, Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights in a hearing entitled, “Review of Federal Judicial Ethics Processes at the Judicial Conference of the United States.”
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Whitehouse, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Elections From Interference
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has joined colleagues to reintroduce legislation to expand protections against election interference during the ballot counting and certification processes.
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Whitehouse Applauds EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for Fossil Fuel-fired Power Plants
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) may 11 cheered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations on greenhouse gas pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants.
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Whitehouse, Colleagues Reintroduce Bipartisan College Transparency Act to Improve College Decision-making Process
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has joined colleagues to reintroduce the bipartisan College Transparency Act, which would provide students and families better information to compare higher education opportunities.
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Whitehouse Urges Judicial Conference to Make Processes More Transparent and Reveal Conference’s Handling of 2011 Justice Thomas Referrals
Following bombshell reporting by ProPublica and the Washington Post detailing new ethics scandals around the Supreme Court, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to the Judicial Conference urging the body to be more transparent about its procedures for considering potential violations of the law by Supreme Court justices, and to inform the public of how the Judicial Conference resolved past complaints related to Justice Thomas’s financial disclosures.
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Whitehouse Reups Calls for Chief Justice to Investigate and for Congress to Pass Scert Act After Yet Another Serious Report About Justice Thomas’s Apparent Ethical Failures
Following yet another ProPublica report on the extraordinary undisclosed financial relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and Republican billionaire Harlan Crow, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on may 4 reiterated his previous calls for the Chief Justice of the United States to investigate ethical misconduct at the Supreme Court and for Congress to pass Whitehouse’s legislation to clean up the ethics mess at the Court.
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Whitehouse, Grassley Press China To Crack Down On Flow Of Precursor Chemicals Fueling Illicit Fentanyl Trade
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, on may 4 urged China to take strong and decisive action to better control the flow of precursor chemicals that Mexican cartels use to manufacture illicit fentanyl.
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Reed & Whitehouse Offer Plan To Help Working Families Afford Child Care
It's becoming harder to find and afford child care in Rhode Island and residents are paying higher and higher percentages of their paychecks for child care.