Latest Fact-checks on Sheldon Whitehouse Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 6, 2019 in an op-ed: "One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 14, 2015 in a news conference: "In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on May 18, 2015 in U.S. Senate: "This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2014 in a Senate floor speech: "January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 14, 2014 in a TV interview: The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary: "There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor: "61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is 'solid evidence the earth is warming,' ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is 'no solid evidence' the earth is warming." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on November 13, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: In a poll, "53 percent of young Republican voters . . . under age 35 said that they would describe a climate [change] denier as 'ignorant,' 'out of touch' or 'crazy.'" Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 10, 2013 in an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire.": "Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare. Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 12, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 9, 2013 in a Senate speech published on YouTube: "Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on November 18, 2012 in a newspaper column: "We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 23, 2012 in a debate: "The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on August 15, 2012 in a news release: "For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on August 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate.: "An April study found that about 70 percent of ads in this election cycle have been negative [due to SuperPACs], up from only 9 percent through the same period in 2008." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 19, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on February 24, 2012 in a speech: Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing: "[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech: "The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on July 29, 2011 in a Senate speech : "In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs. Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 16, 2011 in a speech in the U.S. Senate: "Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on February 13, 2011 in a speech : The richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 27, 2010 in a speech on the Senate floor.: "The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech: "When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 6, 2019 in an op-ed: "One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 14, 2015 in a news conference: "In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on May 18, 2015 in U.S. Senate: "This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2014 in a Senate floor speech: "January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 14, 2014 in a TV interview: The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary: "There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor: "61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is 'solid evidence the earth is warming,' ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is 'no solid evidence' the earth is warming." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on November 13, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: In a poll, "53 percent of young Republican voters . . . under age 35 said that they would describe a climate [change] denier as 'ignorant,' 'out of touch' or 'crazy.'" Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 10, 2013 in an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire.": "Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare. Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 12, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 9, 2013 in a Senate speech published on YouTube: "Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on November 18, 2012 in a newspaper column: "We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 23, 2012 in a debate: "The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on August 15, 2012 in a news release: "For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on August 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate.: "An April study found that about 70 percent of ads in this election cycle have been negative [due to SuperPACs], up from only 9 percent through the same period in 2008." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 19, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on February 24, 2012 in a speech: Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing: "[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech: "The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on July 29, 2011 in a Senate speech : "In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs. Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 16, 2011 in a speech in the U.S. Senate: "Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on February 13, 2011 in a speech : The richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 27, 2010 in a speech on the Senate floor.: "The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech: "When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 6, 2019 in an op-ed: "One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 14, 2015 in a news conference: "In 40 years, 23,000 chemicals came on the market and only four were regulated."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on May 18, 2015 in U.S. Senate: "This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2014 in a Senate floor speech: "January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 14, 2014 in a TV interview: The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary: "There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 17, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor: "61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is 'solid evidence the earth is warming,' ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is 'no solid evidence' the earth is warming."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on November 13, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: In a poll, "53 percent of young Republican voters . . . under age 35 said that they would describe a climate [change] denier as 'ignorant,' 'out of touch' or 'crazy.'"
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 10, 2013 in an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire.": "Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare.
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 12, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 9, 2013 in a Senate speech published on YouTube: "Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on November 18, 2012 in a newspaper column: "We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 23, 2012 in a debate: "The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on August 15, 2012 in a news release: "For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on August 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate.: "An April study found that about 70 percent of ads in this election cycle have been negative [due to SuperPACs], up from only 9 percent through the same period in 2008."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 19, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on February 24, 2012 in a speech: Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing: "[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech: "The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on July 29, 2011 in a Senate speech : "In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 16, 2011 in a speech in the U.S. Senate: "Some criminals have learned how to spy on Americans, hacking into our home computers and looking out through the video camera attached to the screen."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on February 13, 2011 in a speech : The richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 27, 2010 in a speech on the Senate floor.: "The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech: "When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."