Climate Solutions Caucus relaunches! Ask your questions here.
Brett Cease
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Great news! The Climate Solutions Caucus has relaunched for this congressional session and we've updated our training page here accordingly. Please feel free to use this forum to engage in any questions you have 😊 

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@Brett Cease In the past CCL offered guidance on encouraging our members of Congress to join the House Climate Solutions Caucus.   Will there be suggestions/guidelines forthcoming from Ben or Jenn?   Thanks!
 

Brett Cease
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Thank you @Janice L Schaper! Stay tuned on your important question and how much CCL will be leaning into encouraging new pairs to join vs. pushing current caucus members for more robust Congressional action!
 

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If we have a MOC we think  could be  interested in the revitalized Climate Solutions Caucus,  should we go ahead and raise the topic or await further guidance from  Ben  and Jen?

Brett Cease
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Great question @Deirdre Henderson! I've asked our DC team and will get back to this post when I know their recommendations!
 

Brett Cease
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On the Liaison calls yesterday Ben Pendergrass shared that our staff in DC has upcoming meetings with the chairs of the caucus to engage them on key questions like what their thoughts on with prioritizing new Noah's Ark style (1 D and 1 R) joins vs. focusing on legislation. We will provide guidance soon and for now, we are not encouraging members of Congress to join the caucus until we can get more info.

Elinor Sparks
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The day after the July 24th liaison call, we got word from the Climate Solutions Caucus that they are ready to welcome additional members in the Noah's ark fashion. They already have a list of Democrats interested in joining so when a Republican expresses interest the Caucus can pair them up with a Democrat and add them both to the Caucus.

The Caucus aims to be proactive and engaged, so when considering whether to encourage your member of Congress to join the Caucus, you will want to give thought to how active and enthusiastic they will be on climate in the Caucus. If you think that they will make a strong member of the Caucus, then feel free to ask them to join. If you have a Republican representative who would like to be proactive and engaged on climate, then ask them to join.

Hope this helps you see the pathway forward!

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