US Senate - Obama Presidency Oral History US Senate Index / Organizations Transcripts Lisa Jackson ...name, but you testified in front of the Senate Committee. I think it was on ocea... ...“That's Lisa Jackson You met her at the Senate hearing, da, da, da,” and then the... ...Of course, it never got a vote in the Senate . Yes. We're so happy to have tha... Carol Browner ...Then I go back into the federal—into the Senate , where I work for Lawton Chiles, wh... ...I was at a—so he's just been elected to the Senate , and—this is a funny story—there's ... ...on climate change. And we were. Then, the Senate would never take up the bill... ...Obama works it really, really hard. In the Senate , you had Boxer in one place, [John F.... ...among Democratic legislators in the Senate , was there a set of issues tha... ...House in December of 2009 and moves to the Senate . In that same month, Senator Lindse... ...the prospects for that legislation in the Senate . Oh, he was calling me regularly. H... ...version of Waxman-Markey coming out of the Senate in those early months, December an... ...Did negotiations over cap and trade in the Senate , between the administration and th... ...Senate, between the administration and the Senate , continue as the Deepwater Horizo... ...had, for the most part, fizzled out in the Senate . You said, “The clock ran out. You ha... ...that he wanted two big things. It's the Senate 's fault, [laughs] I would say, tha... ...two committees with jurisdiction. In the Senate , you have the Boxer committee [Senat... ...better chance of getting the votes on the Senate floor than maybe the Boxer-Kerry. S... ...into a conference between the House and the Senate to see what we could come up with. Bu... ...finance reform, to the filibuster in the Senate . We're never going to get climat... Show more... Steven Chu ...was incredibly impressed with the Senate Committee on Energy and Water [read... ...Alexander called for this report, on the Senate side. And I was also sent to Congres... ...he carried the House and he carried the Senate . There was a euphoria. The wind was t... ...when I was there. You mentioned the Senate Committee on Energy and Water [Energ... ...point of view, the Congress and the Senate would come to the Department of Energy... ...And then it moves from the House to the Senate , and it got stalled in the Senate. I... ...to the Senate, and it got stalled in the Senate . It seems that Senator Lindsey [O.... ...shifted, and why this failed in the Senate ? Were you involved? I was, again... ...needed sixty percent to do anything in the Senate . Anyone could raise their hand sa... ...and especially after the House and then the Senate two years later, there was ... ...have a majority or even fifty-fifty in the Senate , so we'll have blocked stasi... Show more... Frances Beinecke ...was July 2009, and then it went over to the Senate , and it kind of languished. It jus... ...We want an environmental majority in the Senate and the House. And if we're not willin... Arun Majumdar ...worked; so quickly—I was voted in by the Senate . Senate confirmation and everythin... ...the preparation. Then, of course, was the Senate hearing. It's a window into th... ...committee of both the House and the Senate . Which I did. At the end of the day... Courtney Hight ...voices in the political space; and that the Senate is able to function and get around th... Gina McCarthy ...me about the confirmation hearing with the Senate Committee on Environment and Publi... ...Act], and it lost by two votes in the Senate . I don't think they were interested i... Bill McKibben ...but John Kerry, who was managing it in the Senate , as things were beginning to g... ...as you recall. By the time they got to the Senate , it was a rout. And the thing t... ...it before Copenhagen, but it fails in the Senate after Copenhagen. Yes. So Copenhage... ...when we almost lost it on the floor of the Senate . The Obama people hated the whol... ...in the green room waiting to go on, and the Senate was voting while we were there. And ... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Public Health Public Health go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation