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Lamar Alexander: Energy Challenges for the Next President

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Partner:: C-SPAN
Location:: The Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 05.12.08
Speakers:: Senator Lamar Alexander,; William Antholis,; Jason Bordoff,; Jonathan Elkind,; Carlos Pascual,; David Sandalow
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Summary: Energy issues are central to the most important strategic challenges facing the United States and the world. And in the presidential campaign, they are increasingly central to the discussion of how the next president will approach America's environmental, economic and security policy.

From the idea of a gasoline tax "holiday" to ethanol subsidies to trade policy, energy issues may well dominate policy and political discussions this summer.

On May 12, the Opportunity 08 project at Brookings hosted Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) for a discussion of energy issues facing the next president.

In December of 2007, Alexander was elected by his peers to chairman of the Senate Republican Conference - the third-ranking Republican position in the U.S. Senate.

Senator Alexander has recently proposed that the U.S. launch a new, bipartisan Manhattan Project, "a 5-year effort to put America firmly on the path to clean energy independence" - The Brookings Institution

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Senator Lamar Alexander

Andrew Lamar Alexander is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party. He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S. Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush and candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000.

William Antholis

William Antholis is managing director of the Brookings Institution. He has worked on foreign security and economic policy at the National Security Council and the State Department, and was director of studies at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Jason Bordoff

Jason Bordoff is Policy Director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative housed at The Brookings Institution committed to promoting more broadly shared prosperity. Jason has written on a broad range of economic policy matters, particularly income security and inequality, tax policy and climate change. Jason is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the association of Marshall Scholars. He is a member of the New York and Washington D.C. Bar Associations. He previously served as special assistant to Deputy Secretary Stuart E. Eizenstat at the U.S. Treasury Department, and worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. in New York. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was treasurer and an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also holds an MLitt degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University.

Jonathan Elkind

Jonathan Elkind's current research focuses on energy security in the United States, Europe and Eurasia. He served previously on the staff of the National Security Council and also is the founder of EastLink Consulting, LLC, an energy-environment consultancy.

Carlos Pascual

Carlos Pascual is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Pascual joins Brookings after a 23 year career in the United States Department of State, National Security Council (NSC), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Before joining Brookings, Mr. Pascual served as coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the United States Department of State where he led and coordinated U.S. government planning to help stabilize and reconstruct societies in transition from conflict or civil strife. The primary focus of his work was Sudan, Haiti, and several conflict prevention activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America From October 2000 - August 2003, Mr. Pascual served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. He oversaw U.S. policy focused on promoting Ukrainian reforms critical to its integration with the Euro-Atlantic community. Key priorities included strengthening grassroots democratic initiatives, promoting counter-terrorism and non-proliferation, and building a strong private sector.

David Sandalow

As Under Secretary of Energy (Acting), David Sandalow helps oversee the Department’s renewable energy, energy efficiency, fossil energy, nuclear energy and electricity delivery programs. As Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs, he helps coordinate policy and manage international activities at the Department. Prior to being confirmed as Assistant Secretary, Mr. Sandalow was Energy & Environment Scholar and a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, as well as Energy & Climate Change Working Group Chair at the Clinton Global Initiative. He is the author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and editor of Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (Brookings Press, 2009). Mr. Sandalow has written widely on energy and environmental policy, including op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and other publications. Previously, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment & Science, a Senior Director on the National Security Council staff, an Associate Director on the staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Executive Vice President, World Wildlife Fund – U.S. Mr. Sandalow is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (JD) and Yale College (BA Philosophy).

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01.: Brookings Introduction

03 min 03 sec

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02.: Sen. Alexander Opening

02 min 01 sec

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03.: Proposed New Manhattan Project / Clean Energy Independence

03 min 05 sec

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04.: Consequences of Energy Dependence

01 min 22 sec

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05.: Why Manhattan Model Works for Energy

02 min 39 sec

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06.: Bi-partisan Plan During an Election Year

02 min 24 sec

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07.: Criteria for Choosing Tracks

02 min 51 sec

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08.: 7 Challenges Toward Energy Independence

00 min 42 sec

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09.: Making Plug-in Cars Commonplace

01 min 37 sec

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10.: Smart Metering / The Plug

02 min 48 sec

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11.: Carbon Capture and Storage

01 min 43 sec

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12.: Safely Reprocess and Store Nuclear Waste

01 min 22 sec

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13.: Making Advanced Biofuels Cost Effective

00 min 39 sec

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14.: Greening New Buildings

00 min 36 sec

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15.: Providing Energy from Fusion

02 min 00 sec

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16.: Q & A

00 min 31 sec

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17.: Q1: Bipartisan Convergence

01 min 47 sec

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18.: Q2: Public Trans. / Renewables / Water

03 min 37 sec

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19.: Q3: Cap and Trade

02 min 06 sec

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20.: Q4: Focus on Buildings

02 min 32 sec

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21.: Q5: True Cost of Nuclear

02 min 37 sec

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22.: Q6: Independence

02 min 35 sec

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23.: Q7: Consensus

03 min 19 sec

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24.: Q8: Next President Signing A Treaty

01 min 02 sec

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25.: Panel Discussion

54 min 14 sec

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Lamar Alexander on a Clean Energy Manhattan Project

04 min 26 sec

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Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander outlines his proposed new Manhattan Project, a five year project that puts America on the path to clean energy independence.
Lamar Alexander on Making Plug-in Cars Commonplace

05 min 01 sec

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Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander describes his plan to optimize and familiarize the public with plug-in electric cars, part of his newly proposed Manhattan project.
Lamar Alexander on Advanced Alternative Energy

06 min 13 sec

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Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander describes his plan to make advanced biofuels cost competitive with oil, to safely process nuclear energy, and to produce energy from fusion.
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