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Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Environment & Public Works Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Energy & Natural Resources Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will join other Republican senators tomorrow to discuss the national energy tax in the Boxer-Kerry bill.

Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) Environment & Public Works Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) Energy & Natural Resources Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Senate Republican Policy Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.) Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Senator Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) Other Senate Republicans

U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) will discuss energy transmission issues at the National Press Club on Wednesday, September 30, at 12:00 p.m. Dorgan is the luncheon keynote speaker at The Energy Daily’s Transmission Siting Policy Summit. A question and answer period will follow his remarks.

Dorgan is a senior member of the Senate Energy Committee and Chairman of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee. Dorgan helped craft the Energy Committee legislation that includes investments in energy transmission, and expanded production of traditional and renewable sources of energy.

The event is open to the media. Media wishing to attend should RSVP to Teri Fisher, Senior Event & Marketing Manager for The Energy Daily. Phone: 610-696-2484, Cell: 240-793-8344, Email: [email protected]. For more information on the event, go to www.theenergydaily.com/transmission_siting.

Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduce climate legislation.

East lawn of the Capitol
Corner of 1st and Constitution NE
Across from the Supreme Court

Hilton Crystal City at Ronald Reagan National Airport – Farragut Room

2399 Jefferson Davis Highway

Arlington, VA 22202

Keynote Speaker

Carol Browner, Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy

Featuring

Senator John W. Warner

Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Forces

VADM Dennis V. McGinn USN (Ret.), Member, CNA Military Advisory Board

Senior representatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps

You must register for this free event. Space is limited. Please email [email protected] for registration. Lunch will be served. Parking is available at the Hilton. The Hilton is 3 blocks souhttp://hillheat.com/admin/hearings/events/newth of the Crystal City Metro Station (yellow and blue line). For questions call (202) 887-8853.

We strongly encourage you and other key members of your organization to attend. This will be a special opportunity to hear from and ask questions of leadership with the Department of Defense and Services.

PROGRAM AGENDA

9:00 AM	Meet & Greet, coffee and refreshments – Farragut Room
9:30 AM	Welcome VADM Norbert R. Ryan, Jr. USN (Ret.), President, Military Officers Association of America
9:40 AM	Introduction Remarks Senator John W. Warner
9:50 AM	Remarks Sherri Goodman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary of CNA
10:00 AM	Remarks Sharon Burke, Vice President, National Security for the Center for a New American Security
10:05 AM	Military challenges and the role of the Department of Defense Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Forces
10: 25 AM	Climate change as a threat to our national security and men and women in uniform VADM Dennis V. McGinn USN (Ret.), Member, CNA Military Advisory Board
10:50 AM	Break
11:10 AM	Remarks Phyllis Cuttino, Director, Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, Pew Charitable Trusts
11:20 AM	Defense solutions: Panel discussion from the four military services * followed by Q&A moderated by Rear Admiral Michael A. McDevitt (Ret.), Vice President/Director, CNA Strategic Studies AIR FORCE: Michael F. McGhee, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Environment, Safety and Occupational Health ARMY: Tad Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) MARINE CORPS: Elmer W. Ransom, Senior Environmental and Climate Policy Advisor, Commandant of the Marine Corps NAVY: RDML Dave Titley, Oceanographer & Navigator of the Navy and Director, Task Force Climate Change (TFCC)
12:30 PM	Lunch – Move to Crystal Room
1:00 PM	*Keynote Lunch Speaker Carol Browner, Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy
1:30	Close

Witnesses

• Eileen Claussen, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Jason Grumet, Bipartisan Policy Center
• Dr. Joseph Mason, Louisiana State University
• Dr. Michael Wara, Stanford University
• Brent Yacobucci, Congressional Research Service

With less than 100 days before the international community will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations Climate Conference, negotiators are engaged in key discussions on clean energy measures and pollution limits that will be central to an international climate agreement.

On Thursday September 10th, 2009 the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing entitled, “Roadmap to Copenhagen – Driving towards Success.” The hearing will begin at 9:30 AM, and be held on the U.S. Capitol Complex ROOM NUMBER TBA.

The hearing will focus on progress made thus far and challenges remaining as the December UN climate negotiations approach. It will feature testimony from the Obama Administration’s top climate negotiator, Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State.

Witness

• Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State.

Panel 1A: Regulating Carbon Markets in a Cap-and-Trade System

• Hon. Gary Gensler, Chairman, U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission

Panel 1B: Regulating Carbon Markets in a Cap-and-Trade System

• Timothy Profeta, Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
• Joseph R. Glace, Vice President for Risk Management and Chief Risk Officer, Exelon Corporation
• Dr. Dave Miller, Chief Science Officer AgraGate; Research & Commodity Services Director, Iowa Farm Bureau
• Julie Winkler, Managing Director, Research and Product Development, CME Group, & Member of the Board of Directors, Green Exchange LLC

Panel 2: Producer Group Perspectives

• Fred Yoder, past President of National Corn Growers Association
• Luke Brubaker, Brubaker Farms
• Frank Rehermann, Chairman, USA Rice Producers’ Group
• Andy Beckstoffer, Chairman and CEO, Beckstoffer Vineyards

The purpose of the hearing is to consider climate change impacts on national parks in Colorado and related management activities. It will be held in the Board Room of Town Hall, 170 MacGregor Avenue, Estes Park.

Witnesses

• Dr. Herbert C. Frost, Associate Director for Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, National Park Service
• Alice Madden, Climate Change Coordinator, Office of the Governor, Denver, Colorado
• Stephen Saunders, President, The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
• Dr. David Schimel, Senior Scientist , National Center for Atmospheric Research

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Ken Salazar, Secretary, United States Department of the Interior

Panel 2

• Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• David B. Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, United States Department of Energy

Panel 3

• Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund
• Bill Fehrman, President and CEO, MidAmerican Energy Company

During the Executive Session, Committee members will markup the following legislation, nominations, and other bills that may become available:

• S. 1078, the AmericaView Geospatial Imagery Mapping Program Act
• S. 30, the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009
• S. 251, the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009
• S. 952, Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2009
• S. 1538, Black Carbon and Other Aerosols Research Act of 2009
• S. 1539, Greenhouse Gas Observation and Analysis System Act of 2009

• Nomination of Mr. Christopher P. Bertram, to be Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs and Chief Financial Officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation (PN 727)
• Nomination of Ms. Patricia D. Cahill, to be a Member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PN 692)
• Nomination of Mr. Daniel R. Elliott, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board (PN 790)
• Nomination of Mr. Christopher A. Hart, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board (PN 671)
• Nomination of Ms. Susan L. Kurland, to be Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation (PN 705)