Sheldon Whitehouse: “I am actually optimistic and hopeful that we are going to be able to get something done on infrastructure.”

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.

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

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.

We need more clarity on that.