{"id":216,"date":"2010-07-02T15:41:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-07-02T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T19:47:43","slug":"a-july-senate-push-for-comprehensive-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/a-july-senate-push-for-comprehensive-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"A July Senate push for Comprehensive Energy and Climate Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama, John Kerry and other Senate leaders are planning a strong push to pass Comprehensive Energy and Climate legislation during the July work session of Congress.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In early June, the President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/president-obama-will-find-the-votes\/\">promised to &#8220;find the votes&#8221; <\/a>for comprehensive climate change legislation.<\/li>\n<li> Senator Kerry&#8217;s American Power Act is working its way through his Foreign Relations Committee with a plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/american-power-act-to-pick-up-missing-pieces-as-it-moves-through-senate\/\">combine it with complementary energy legislation<\/a> now in other Senate committees.<\/li>\n<li>On June 24th, the Democratic caucus emerged with strong support from its members for passing comprehensive energy and climate legislation &#8211; and resistance to energy-only or other piecemeal solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Early this week, President Obama met with about 20 key legislators and reiterated his commitment to comprehensive legislation whose centerpiece must be a price on carbon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This effort will play out during July, with the real work beginning once Congress returns from the 4th of July break.  The effort to secure 60 votes will have a <b>strong focus on New England, where there is strong popular support for this effort and four Republican senators<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Massachusetts&#8217; Scott Brown<\/li>\n<li>New Hampshire&#8217;s Judd Gregg<\/li>\n<li>Maine&#8217;s Susan Collins and Olympia Snow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters and organizations in Massachusetts and the other nearby states are gearing up to make the case to their Senators.  They are finding the effort simultaneously energizing and unaccountably frustrating.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Energizing<\/strong>, because it has been some time since they could make a difference on a major national issue through working in their own back yard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frustrating<\/strong> because of the puzzling difficulty of getting traction despite making their case on the basis of benefits that should have strong appeal to Republicans &#8211; jobs, economic competitiveness, growing new entrepreneurial industries, market based solutions, national security and energy independence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch this space as July unfolds.  If you&#8217;d like to help, <a href=\"mailto:mjg@riverbendadvisors.com\">contact me<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama, John Kerry and other Senate leaders are planning a strong push to pass Comprehensive Energy and Climate legislation during the July work session of Congress. In early June, the President promised to &#8220;find the votes&#8221; for comprehensive climate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-federal","category-massachusetts","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}