“Reintroduce and introduce a package of transmission bills — an interregional planning improvement bill, a new permitting reform bill giving FERC and DOE additional authorities, and a transmission investment tax credit bill.”
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All five cited sources are reachable and each supports the outcome; every quoted passage was confirmed to appear verbatim on WebFetch. The promise was to reintroduce/introduce a three-bill transmission package, and the sources document Heinrich introducing all three as LEAD AUTHOR AND SPONSOR (not merely voting or supporting), which meets the leadership bar for CHAMPIONED: (1) Interregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act (S.1748) — primary sponsor; press release (May 19, 2023) quote confirmed and bill text on govinfo confirms "118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1748" and the title; (2) FASTER Act permitting-reform bill (June 1, 2023) — lead sponsor; the FERC-siting-authority quote appears verbatim and explicitly references DOE corridor designations, matching the promised "FERC and DOE additional authorities"; (3) Grid Resiliency Tax Credit Act (June 1, 2023) — lead Senate sponsor (bicameral with Rep. Horsford); the 30% ITC quote appears verbatim, corroborated by Utility Dive whose headline was confirmed word-for-word. Non-enactment is immaterial because the promise was to introduce the bills, which he fully did and personally led. Confidence is 0.9 rather than higher only because the FULL-vs-CHAMPIONED distinction is a judgment call; the sources place him as lead author of all three, so CHAMPIONED is well supported. (Note: the FASTER/Grid Resiliency bill numbers S.1804/S.1793 in the rationale were not independently confirmed by the fetched press releases, which omitted numbers, but the substantive authorship and content are fully verified.)
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