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FBI Director Nominee Kash Patel is forced to admit that he has poor taste in Truth Social reposts.

January 30 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questions Kash Patel on his nomination to lead the FBI.

January 30 | Less than ten days into his second term, President Trump sent the nation into a tailspin that caused real people real harm. Senate Budget Committee Democrats spoke out against his nomination of Russ Vought to serve as the head of the OMB.

January 30 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questions Kash Patel on his nomination to lead the FBI

Conduct shows character. The history of Kash Patel’s conduct raises many warnings.

January 29 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks on Rhode Islanders’ experience with a ruthless CMS bureaucracy in a Senate Finance Committee Hearing considering the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

January 29 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers remarks on the Senate floor opposing Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency and issuing a warning of its consequences to our climate safety.

January 29 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) explains his decision to vote “no” on advancing Pam Bondi for Attorney General after concluding she is not willing to push back against President Trump and his cabinet member’s dangerous decisions, in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

January 28 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers remarks on the Senate floor reflecting on the violent January 6th attack on the Capitol and calls out his Republican colleagues for allowing President Trump’s pardon of the rioters involved.

January 28 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers remarks on the Senate floor condemning President Trump’s unconstitutional federal funding freeze and its uncanny resemblance to contents of the Project 2025 playbook. The freeze would have jeopardized education and health care programs and initiatives that Rhode Islanders rely on.