Sheldon Whitehouse: “I mean, if these technologies are new and unusual now, think how new and unusual they were years ago when this…”

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

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.

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.

I would say I was an early believer in Josh’s race. I served in the Senate with Tom Harkin. I know what Iowa can deliver because I saw Tom Harkin in action.