Sheldon Whitehouse: “This is nobody's first rodeo here, and we have all certainly been involved in legislative matters in which the private…”

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

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.

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

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.