Sheldon Whitehouse: “What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.”

We need more clarity on that.

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.

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.