Sheldon Whitehouse: “It seems fairly recently that we had the news that student loan debt in the country broke through a trillion dollars…”

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.

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.