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ORTAGUS: "Well, it's a mystery, not only because this was — it goes against what Secretary Blinken and others pledged in their confirmation hearings, it goes against a bipartisan consensus against this Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The Obama administration, when Biden was Vice President, was against this pipeline, and bipartisan members of Congress, I mean, majority of Congress for a very long time had been opposed to this. And why is it? Because this pipeline would give Russia the ability to have control, to have leverage over Europe's energy resources, and why would you want our allies to be beholden to Russia? It makes no sense."