Sheldon Whitehouse: “I am pleased to be an original co-sponsor of the bill and hope to see more practical and bipartisan legislation to…”

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

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.