Why Do We Need A Green New Deal? with Senator Ed Markey

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week on Getting Curious, Jonathan is learning about the power of clean energy with a clean energy powerhouse: Massachusetts representative and co-author of the Green New Deal bill, Senator Ed Markey. Senator Markey explains what a Green New Deal can offer in the way of environmental protections, job opportunities, pandemic recovery, and more. Senator Markey is also running for re-election in the upcoming Massachusetts primary, and he and Jonathan discuss his four decades as a progressive leader, what the stakes are for his keeping his seat (they're JVN endorsement-level major!), and how he's planning to turn out the vote on September 1. Follow Senator Markey on Twitter @EdMarkey, and on Facebook @EdMarkeyforMA. Learn more about his work at www.markey.senate.gov and his re-election campaign at www.edmarkey.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute
0:04.6	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.3	On today's episode I'm joined by Massachusetts Representative and co-author of the Green New Deal
0:14.0	Bill, Senator Ed Markey, where I ask him, what's the Green New Deal and why is it the answer?
0:20.2	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited to welcome
0:23.4	our guest this week, Senator Ed Markey. How are you doing, Senator? I'm doing great. We're living
0:32.7	in a world of coronavirus. We're living in a world of a criminally negligent president
0:40.0	who is not putting the proper safeguards in place for the American people. It's dangerous to
0:48.0	have a leader like that. Personally, I'm in good shape, but we have to admit that the country right
0:54.9	now is not at all. Yeah, I mean, I think that is absolutely the case. You are someone, if you're
1:03.4	a listener to this, just to give you a brief intro into who Senator Ed Markey is, you are someone
1:08.4	who spent 37 years in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress, which is incredible.
1:13.6	You became the Senator of Massachusetts in 2013. An special election, which I also just think
1:19.6	is interesting. I love a special election moment. But now that I think about saying that, sometimes
1:25.6	special elections happen because of like tragic reasons. I strike it from the records. I can't
1:29.5	remember why you had a special election in 2013. I had a special election because
1:35.9	President Obama asked John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts, to become the Secretary of State.
1:41.6	That's not a tragedy. That's exciting. Yeah. So John Kerry went off to be Secretary of State,
1:47.4	and then I had to run in the special election to win the unexpired portion of his term, which
1:55.6	was a year and a half, and then to run in 2014 for the full six-year term, which I am in right now,
2:02.7	which is coming to a conclusion in another six months. That escaped me that you took over for
2:11.2	John Kerry's Senate seat. That's incredible. So you have such a unique position as far as
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