{"id":19080,"date":"2014-03-07T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19080"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:30:35","slug":"boxer-whitehouse-and-senate-colleagues-kick-off-new-initiative-to-wake-up-congress-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/boxer-whitehouse-and-senate-colleagues-kick-off-new-initiative-to-wake-up-congress-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer, Whitehouse, and Senate Colleagues Kick Off New Initiative to \u201cWake Up Congress\u201d on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Washington, DC &#8211; During a press conference today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), announced the members of a newly formed Senate Climate Action Task Force and discussed their plans to take action on climate change.<br \/>\nClick here to watch the video of today&#8217;s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the task force are listed below:<\/p>\n<p>Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)<br \/>\nSenator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)<br \/>\nSenator Maria Cantwell (D-WA)<br \/>\nSenator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)<br \/>\nSenator Ben Cardin (D-MD)<br \/>\nSenator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)<br \/>\nSenator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)<br \/>\nSenator Tom Udall (D-NM)<br \/>\nSenator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)<br \/>\nSenator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)<br \/>\nSenator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)<br \/>\nSenator Al Franken (D-MN)<br \/>\nSenator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)<br \/>\nSenator Brian Schatz (D-HI)<br \/>\nSenator Chris Murphy (D-CT)<br \/>\nSenator Martin Heinrich (D-NM)<br \/>\nSenator Angus King (I-ME)<br \/>\nSenator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)<br \/>\nSenator Ed Markey (D-MA)<br \/>\nSenator Cory Booker (D-NJ)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &#8211; During a press conference today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), announced the members of a newly formed Senate Climate Action Task Force and discussed their plans to take action on climate change. Click here to watch the video of today&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/boxer-whitehouse-and-senate-colleagues-kick-off-new-initiative-to-wake-up-congress-on-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boxer, Whitehouse, and Senate Colleagues Kick Off New Initiative to \u201cWake Up Congress\u201d on Climate Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,856,859],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4XK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}