“The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.” — Sheldon Whitehouse

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare.

If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.