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AttemptedClean energy

Committed, through the SHINE Act, to simplify the permitting and inspection process so homeowners and local governments can more easily install home renewable energy systems such as rooftop solar.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Adversarial re-check: all three cited sources are REAL and were independently re-fetched, and the underlying facts hold, but the prior rationale contained a false factual claim that is corrected here. VERIFIED FROM PRIMARY RECORDS: (1) Wyden's own Oct. 23, 2023 press release exists and carries the quoted statement verbatim ('I'm proud to cosponsor the SHINE Act which would simplify the permitting process for homeowners and local governments'). (2) Heinrich's Oct. 20, 2023 release exists and lists Wyden among the five senators introducing the Streamlining Homeowner Installation of New Energies (SHINE) Act. (3) Congress.gov (fetched directly) shows S.3099, 118th Congress, SHINE Act of 2023: sponsor Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM], introduced 10/19/2023; cosponsor statistics '6 current - includes 4 original'; Wyden is listed as an ORIGINAL cosponsor dated 10/19/2023; and the bill has exactly ONE action ever - 'Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' - with status 'Introduced'. No hearing, no markup, no vote, nothing enacted. GovInfo (BILLS-118s3099is) independently corroborates sponsor, the four original cosponsors including Wyden, and the Oct. 19, 2023 introduction date. The identical House companion is H.R.5997, which likewise died after being referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security on 11/03/2023. CORRECTIONS TO THE PRIOR RATING: (a) the prior rationale asserted the House 'reintroduced the measure as H.R.6981 in January 2026' - this is wrong; H.R.6981 (118th Congress) is Rep. Raskin's Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024, unrelated to solar permitting, verified on Congress.gov. That claim is removed. (b) The prior rationale's 'one of six cosponsors' understates Wyden slightly - he was one of only FOUR original cosponsors at introduction, not a late add-on. OUTCOME: ATTEMPTED is correct and survives the correction. Wyden took a real, documented legislative step on the exact vehicle he named - original cosponsorship plus a public statement, which is more than a lone supporting vote - but he did not sponsor, lead, or drive it (Heinrich did), and there is no evidence he pushed it toward a hearing, attached it to a moving package, or otherwise advanced it after introduction; it died at referral. That is short of CHAMPIONED (which requires leading/driving the effort) and clearly above IGNORED (he demonstrably engaged). Nonpartisan consistency check: a senator of the opposing party who was one of four original cosponsors on a colleague's bill that never left committee, with one supportive press release and no further action, would receive ATTEMPTED under this same standard - not CHAMPIONED and not IGNORED. No evidence was found that the SHINE Act's permitting-streamlining substance was enacted through any other vehicle; I could not confirm either way whether a 119th Congress reintroduction with Wyden attached exists, so no claim is made about it, and it would not change the outcome. Confidence raised slightly to 0.85 because every load-bearing fact is now confirmed against primary records; the only residual judgment risk is the CHAMPIONED/ATTEMPTED boundary.

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