Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2007 as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island.A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1993 to 1998 as the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island and from 1999 to 2003 as the 71st attorney general of Rhode Island.In 2006, he was elected to the Senate, defeating ...

The Oval Office is the formal working space of the president of the United States. Part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, it is in the West Wing of the White House, in Washington, D.C.

19 hours ago · Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island called Zeldin the wrong man for the job. “We need an EPA administrator who will take climate change seriously, treat the science honestly and stand up where necessary to the political pressure that will be coming from the White House, where we have a president who actually thinks (climate change) is a hoax, and from the huge fossil fuel ...

Jan 17, 2025 · President Joe Biden elevated such concerns from the Oval Office for the first time this week, just before he leaves office. In the hours that followed Biden's farewell address, progressives...

Jan 21, 2025 · (c) This Federal Hiring Plan shall include specific agency plans to improve the allocation of Senior Executive Service positions in the Cabinet agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency, the ...

1 day ago · Whitehouse on whether he will confirm old friend Kennedy: ‘People just need to kind of chill’ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., hasn’t revealed whether he will vote to confirm Kennedy for the ...

Jan 16, 2025 · Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Judiciary Committee, joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his questioning of Donald Trump’s Attorney General pick Pam Bondi during her ...

Nov 6, 2024 · MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Senate Judiciary Committee member who was just reelected, to discuss the role Democrats will play when...

Jan 21, 2021 · Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today issued the following statement after Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States: “I was filled with hope as I watched President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris being sworn in this afternoon.

Nov 15, 2024 · Speaking on a press call from the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, Whitehouse conceded “there will be no climate Normandy with America coming to the relief of the world” under President-elect...