Sheldon Whitehouse: “Ocean acidification is an often overlooked consequence of global greenhouse gas emissions.”

We need more clarity on that.

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.

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.