Senator Sheldon White House fell into the spotlight amid new ethical complaints due to his vote, supported by law that ultimately funded millions of grants to the nonprofit climate group that pays his wife’s consulting company.
But who is his wife, Sandra Whitehouse?
According to her LinkedIn page, the White House received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University.
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Sandra White House, the wife of Senator Sheldon White House, has long been working with and compensated with nonprofits that have won millions of federal funds from the laws he supported. (Reuters)
She then received her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, studying from 1986 to 1994.
She and Sheldon White House were married in 1986 at St. George’s Chapel in Newport, Rhode Island, according to a newspaper announcement.
According to the Senator’s website, the couple lives in Newport and has Molly and Alexander, two grandchildren and two children.
Throughout her career, the White House has advised nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, state agencies, legislative agencies and private companies, according to a biographies of the Atlantic Council, who was a senior non-resident fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
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The couple lives in Newport. (Boston Globe via Jonathan Wiggs/Getty Images)
Her husband was first elected to the US Senate in 2006. She first began working with the group at the heart of her latest ethics complaint about two years later.
According to her LinkedIn page, the White House began working at Ocean Conservancy in September 2008. She serves as a senior policy advisor and her “consulting work includes providing strategic advice to the executive team and program directors, raising awareness of marine policy issues at various workshops and conferences, and involvement of key stakeholders in the Ocean Conservancy mission.
The White House is no longer directly employed by Ocean Conservancy, but the organization pays her company, Ocean Winks LLC, for similar consulting.
She became president of Ocean Wonks LLC in 2017, and with this ability she “utilises decades of scientific, regulatory and policy experience to consult with various nonprofits and educate and advocate on marine policy issues,” according to her LinkedIn.
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Senator Sheldon White House has been accused of potential conflicts of interest by the ethics watchdog. (Getty Images)
Ocean Conservancy has received more than $14.2 million in federal grants since 2008, according to USASPENDING.GOV. Two large grants were given in just 2024, one for $5.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the other for $1.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), both for $1.7 million for cleanup of marine debris. The former was funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act (BIL), while the latter was funded through the EPA’s annual spending bill. The senator voted for both.
Ocean Conservancy has paid a total of $2,686,800 since 2010 to the White House either in person or through her company, according to tax documents.
This is a D-DEL from the Ethics and Ethics Committee Committee Chairman James Lankford, R. Okra, and Vice-Chairman Chris Coons (D-del.) from the accountability and citizen trust (facts) of ethics monitoring facilities.
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The White House has become known as a climate horse. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.
“This is a recurring dark money performance, and previous attempts by dark money groups to plant these same smears have been roundly dismissed by Senate ethics,” White House spokesman Stephen DeLeo said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“However, the special interests of the far right and false accusations from billionaires do not preclude the pursuit of accountable, ethical government senators who meet the needs of Americans,” he added.
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The White House office also provided a letter to Fox News Digital last year from the committee informing another oversight group judicial oversight that the Senator’s case did not violate “federal law, Senate rules, or other standards of conduct.”
The group had filed similar ethical complaints in the facts.
Julia Johnson is a political writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business and is a major reporter in the US Senate. She was previously a political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
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