Sheldon Whitehouse: “I think that it reflects the fact that some of the gains from this bill are a lot less than advertised, and even those…”

“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.

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