American Clean Energy Town Hall Meeting Video

While constituents meeting Senators and their staffs was the priority and primary motivation behind last week’s Clean Energy Works fly-in, the presence of almost 200 people from around the country was also an opportunity to publicize the wide support for comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation to a bigger audience.

The Town Hall Meeting was a series of four panels that featured two Senators – John Kerry (MA) and Jeff Merkley (OR), retired veterans, business people and workers. John Kerry, the Senate leader for this effort, was articulate, focused and passionate. That last is not something many people have historically associated with the Senator, but if you watch sections of this event, you will see that come across. Take a look at this edited version of Senator Kerry’s remarks, uploaded just after I published this post with the list of clips.)

An agenda with list of panelists in PDF format is here.

The entire session is available on YouTube, unfortunately divided up into nine 10-minute as required by YouTube limits. This link will lead you to the first segment. Here are a few highlights from the entire session with their location on the video clips:

Segment 4 of 9 3:15 and 4:15	Two powerful ads produced by Veterans organizations
Segment 4 of 9 6:30	John Kerry – National security and our dependence on oil (the ostrich policy)
Segment 4 of 9 8:00	John Kerry – Everything the science telling us is coming back worse than predicted National Security and our dependence on oil
Segment 5 of 9 0:00	John Kerry – Climate change-specific risks to national security
Segment 5 of 9 2:50	John Kerry – Senators fear the consequences of voting
Segment 5 of 9 4:00	John Kerry – candid analysis of prospects for the bill with a vow that the issue will not go away
Segment 6 of 9 0:00	John Kerry – the price on carbon we’re already paying
Segment 5 of 9 6:50	Veterans Lt. General Seip and John Gensler – “What’s real about this?”
Segment 6 of 9 8:40 Segment 7 of 9 0:00	Reducing the US Military’s dependence on oil
Segment 7 of 9 2:45	Jeff Merkley explains his oil independence bill