Sheldon Whitehouse: “Is it a fair statement of mine to put, ``Gosh, we released four'' into the context of, ``Yeah, but we are holding 84''?…”

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

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.