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Rhiannon12866

(259,410 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 02:25 AM Apr 30

Senator Whitehouse Grills EPA Administrator Zeldin - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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EPW Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), questions EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on his purposeful efforts to raise costs for American families. - 04/29/2026.
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lapfog_1

(32,017 posts)
1. when this is all over
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:55 AM
Apr 30

I hope we get to put these people on trial and convict them and send them to prison for a long time...

and then work hard to undo all the damage they did.

Rhiannon12866

(259,410 posts)
2. That's my fervent hope as well, we're currently being led by a lawless administration
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 04:01 AM
Apr 30

And I fear that all the damage may take a generation to fix, meanwhile this lawless administration must be held to answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.

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Rhiannon12866

(259,410 posts)
4. Wow! Thanks! And Senator Whitehouse is one of my favorites since he takes climate change seriously
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 05:09 AM
Apr 30

And it's one of his signature issues. He's extremely dedicated and has made literally over 300 presentations to the committee on the issue. Climate change and Supreme Court corruption are his two main issues and here he's having to deal with both of them in the same week!

As for education, the current administration has interfered in that, too. If kids are going to a private religious school, they likely have to learn the 10 Commandments (I had to, we were tested on them!) but they do not belong on the walls in public schools. And when I was in school, we were encouraged to read - in the summer my mother took my brother and me to the local library where we took out books to read, the library had a summer reading program. These days, there are books which are banned. Nobody told me what books to read, I chose them myself.

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Rhiannon12866

(259,410 posts)
6. Some of the books that I was assigned to read for school are now on the "banned book" lists
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 06:28 AM
Apr 30

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Rhiannon12866

(259,410 posts)
8. Yup, Northfield School for Girls, I had the privilege of being in the last all female graduating class
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 08:10 AM
Apr 30

From 1879, no less! And DU helps keep me sane as well, I have friends/relatives that feel the same as I do about what's going on in this country and I don't know how they're managing without all the like minded friends that I have here on DU...

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Rhiannon12866

(259,410 posts)
10. No, I meant that I was the last all female graduating class from a girls' school that had been there since 1879
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 08:43 AM
Apr 30

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