Sheldon Whitehouse: “There is nothing that I would be more pleased with than a nonpartisan conversation about the debt and the deficit.”

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.

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

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

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.