Whitehouse calls the renewed security rationale a pretext
U.S. senator from Rhode Island and ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
“The new pretext was national security risks that had supposedly emerged in the previous thirty days.”
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Official statement
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Whitehouse's prepared remarks criticized both Revolution Wind halts, disputed the national-security justification and explained his pause in permitting-reform negotiations.
Before the quotation
Whitehouse reviewed the two Revolution Wind stops while discussing trust in the administration's permitting decisions.
After the quotation
He explained that he and Senator Martin Heinrich had paused permitting-reform negotiations, while saying he still wanted bipartisan reform.
How this statement is classified
Responding to: Sheldon Whitehouse characterized the national-security rationale for the December offshore-wind stop-work orders as a pretext.
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Why this label?
The reference point is the federal halt to Revolution Wind construction. Whitehouse denounces the stop-work orders as unjustified attacks and disputes their stated rationale, so the statement condemns the action.
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