We briefed him on the transaction, and we asked him what he thought was likely to happen at the Senate .

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

We now look forward to a swift finalization of this transaction. We expect this to happen in the ... next few weeks.

Our lobby was very intense because of the opposition [to CNOOC in Congress].

I just got the weeks mixed up.

Whatever we are afraid of will likely happen to us