Sheldon Whitehouse: “The founding fathers' word for this would, I think, have been corruption.”

“must pay for any network upgrades needed to serve their big demand, so ratepayers don’t bear the cost burden of added infrastructure.”

The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.

And when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.

We need more clarity on that.