Sheldon Whitehouse: “It's like being asked to jump out of an airplane with no parachute but being told, 'Trust us, we'll build the parachute…”

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

We introduced the Disaster Relief Fairness Act in July, which would require the federal government to approve disaster aid when a state meets FEMA’s criteria for assistance.

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

Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.