"A local mayor dared to collude with energy oligarchs and cut the power supply to the nation's critical infrastructure!"
"This is a blatant challenge to federal authority! It is a grave threat to public safety!"
He raised the report in his hand and waved it forcefully.
"Look at these losses! That was R&D data for life-saving medicine! The hope of cancer patients! And because of that arrogant mayor, it's all been destroyed!"
"We must take action."
Another Senator from California took the microphone.
"We cannot allow this energy blackmail to continue. If he can cut Pfizer's power today, he can cut the White House's power tomorrow!"
"I propose that the committee immediately draft an emergency bill."
"To demand that the Federal Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security intervene."
"To take over dispatch control of the PJM Grid."
