A climate activist, Whitehouse expressed frustration over the lack of progressive climate change action in the Biden administration’s infrastructure proposals. Whitehouse’s priorities also include tightening campaign finance laws. He says “dark money” in federal elections — large, undisclosed contributions that fund the campaign advertising and activities of groups working independently to elect candidates — is behind congressional opposition to addressing climate change. A former federal prosecutor and state attorney general, Whitehouse used his perch on the Judiciary Committee to aggressively question former President Donald Trump’s judiciary nominees.

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