Sheldon Whitehouse: “I take a moment to offer my condolences to Senator Inhofe's family and friends. ____________________”

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

“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.

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.