Sheldon Whitehouse

20 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2007

• Senator RI 2007–present

• role Junior United States senator from Rhode Island since 2007
• role Chair of Senate Committee on the Budget since 2023
• role United States Attorney for District of Rhode Island from 1993 to 1998
• role 71st attorney general of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003
• achievement Elected to Senate in 2006, defeating Republican incumbent Lincoln Chafee
• role Prominent advocate for climate action; given hundreds of Senate floor speeches on climate change

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $6,752 · 76 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

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• 93.3%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 99
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 434 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 99 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 80%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 10 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 20%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 17
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Sheldon Whitehouse. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Chairman
• Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member · oversees Energy
• Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Border Security and Immigration Subcommittee
• Budget Committee
• Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight Subcommittee Ex Officio · oversees Energy
• Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety Subcommittee Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission)
• Constitution Subcommittee
• Finance Committee
• Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee Ex Officio
• International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness Subcommittee
• Judiciary Committee · oversees Technology
• Taxation and IRS Oversight Subcommittee
• Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Health Care Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Intellectual Property Subcommittee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Whitehouse most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Whitehouse connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov