Senate panel Democrats bash climate change deniers: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.: ‘And we’ve tolerated the deniers for far too long in this body’
Sen. Whitehouse: 'We have this new normal of new extremes is because global climate change is happening and is real...We have to face the fact that the deniers are wrong. They are just plain dead wrong...I think some of the courtesies that we have given to one another collegially really have to yield to the fact that some of the things that are being said in the Senate, and occasionally regrettably in this committee chamber, are just plain wrong.'