Sheldon Whitehouse: “The situation at MMS, as Senator Whitehouse has pointed out, is a good example of this form of capture.”

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

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.

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.

And when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.