has been managing complex negotiation from the white house for democrats since the clinton presidency. much of my confidence in the possibility of a successful bipartisan negotiation and vote in the senate on infrastructure has been based on my personal knowledge of the skill set that steve brings to this work. when i worked in the senate i worked with steve when he was in the white house and watched him masterfully handle the tensions and technical difficulties of complex legislative package s with the white house chief of staff and biden as president this team is unmatched in the history of white house legislative experience. republican senator ron portman did the standard thing today, the traditional thing in these situations, by thanking people in the other party and in the white house who he had been working with, but this time this time he knew with every word he spoke tonight he was