Congressman Ed Markey Directs Student’s Question to Panel in Select Committee Hearing.

Congressman Ed Markey, Chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and the new chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, contributed some thoughts to the National Teach-In press release, and enthusiastically supported student and youth efforts to have a say in Congress’s energy decisions this year:

“Now is the time for student leaders to speak up in the fight against global warming. Congress is poised to write climate legislation that will grow our economy, create millions of green jobs and protect our planet for generations –the National Teach-In gives students around the country a seat at the table.”

However, we did NOT expect this:

Other videos by Senator John Kerry, Senator Herb Kohl, and Representative Mike Doyle are HERE.

2 Responses to “Congressman Ed Markey Directs Student’s Question to Panel in Select Committee Hearing.”


  1. 1 Jeremy Blanchard Feb 5th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    The link to the teach-in is broken. It should be http://www.nationalteachin.org/

  1. 1 links for 2009-02-07 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog Trackback on Feb 7th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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Madeline Co-Coordinates Project Survival Media, a global network of youth journalists committed to sharing stories of survival and ingenuity in the face of climate change. She is also the Working Films Engegement Coordinator for the new documentary film "Dirty Business" by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Madeline graduated from Macalester College with a BA in Political Science and a Minor in Environmental Studies. During that time, she also studied abroad in the Brazilian Amazon, with SIT Brazil: Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology. She loves to climb, do as much yoga as she can, hike, and generally play outside, and she is fascinated by any field that studies how humans organize ourselves and shape/are shaped by the physical world.

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