Sheldon Whitehouse: “I applaud Senator Lautenberg's efforts in drafting a more reasoned alternative to the House bill.”

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

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

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

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.