Sheldon Whitehouse: “If we are going to have a conversation of some kind that is not going to happen unless we have a Republican proposal to…”

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

Those are the things we can do if you send Josh Turek to the Senate.

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.

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