Sheldon Whitehouse

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

32.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Sheldon Whitehouse is Rhode Island's junior Democratic senator and ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, serving his fourth term focused on climate and dark money.

Sheldon Whitehouse is the junior U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, a Democrat first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2012, 2018, and 2024. Born in New York City to a diplomatic family, Whitehouse grew up partly overseas, graduated from Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, and served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island and then as Rhode Island's attorney general from 1999 to 2003. In the 119th Congress, Whitehouse serves on Judiciary, Finance, Environment and Public Works, and Budget committees, holding ranking member positions on both Environment and Public Works and Budget. He is one of the Senate's most persistent voices on climate change and the intersection of climate policy with federal fiscal health, dark money in politics and the judiciary, and oversight of the federal courts. Whitehouse has worked extensively on oceans and water policy, opioid abuse prevention, and environmental justice. He maintains a focus on how climate change affects long-term economic and fiscal security and has been a leading advocate for transparency in campaign finance and judicial ethics.