Sheldon Whitehouse: “In the past, have we not worked into the early week or weeks of August before taking the so-called August recess?”

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.

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

The wins from this could be very very big ones. This should lower electricity costs measurably for Americans. This should increase clean power significantly for Americans. This should significantly add construction and jobs across the…