To watch a flash video of the press conference, please click HERE 

BACKGROUND:
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will host an event on Wednesday to introduce the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, and will be joined by a broad coalition showing support for action in the U.S. Senate to address global warming. Senators Boxer and Kerry will be joined by Democratic Members of the EPW committee and other senators, as well as leaders from the business, faith, national security, energy and environmental community, and local and state officials.

WHEN:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
11:30 AM ET

LOCATION:
East Front Lawn, U.S. Capitol
(Area 9 on this map (http://www.uscapitolpolice.gov/special_events/map.pdf)
Washington, DC
Rain location: Kennedy Caucus Room (SR-325 Russell Office Building)

WHO:
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Chairman, Environment and Public Works Committee

Senator John Kerry (D-MA)

Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee

Vice Admiral Lee F. Gunn, USN (Retired)

Aaron Bailey, Afghanistan Veteran, U.S. Army

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