There’s a sharp-elbowed progressive atop the Senate Budget Committee, with big ideas about corporate greed, the environment and shaking up Washington. And it isn’t Bernie Sanders. It’s Sheldon Whitehouse.
every two years to give up their gavels. Not to mention the hundreds of “Time to Wake Up” speeches he’s given on climate change. Don’t forget “The Scheme,” a book and oratory series linking dark money with the conservative Supreme Court.
His victory over a GOP incumbent in 2006 played a key role in turning New England its current shade of blue. But even though Whitehouse is a pugnacious partisan at times, he still maintains surprising GOP friendships. earlier this year. When his arch-rival in many environmental debates decided to retire last year, Whitehouse described former Sen. Jim Inhofe as “a key ally on my oceans and infrastructure measures.
It doesn’t appear that his propensity to pick those internal battles rattled his leader’s confidence in his ability to wield the Budget gavel. Senate Majority Leader“He’s got a unique way of taking the complex federal budget and breaking it down to show it impacts the lives of everyday Americans,” Schumer added in a statement.
Of course, the power of the Budget chair to effect any concrete policy changes is limited: Sanders tried to get a $6 trillion party-line policy bill done last Congress and eventually settled for something a fraction of the size.“I call the committee kind of a useless appendage,” said Sen., arguing that the new chair’s professed interest in budget reform still plays “second fiddle” to Whitehouse’s “main concern, which is climate.
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