Sheldon Whitehouse: “I have been a fairly persistent inquirer about the Army Corps so called Coastal and Inland Flooding Account.”

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.

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.

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