Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Senate Environment and Public Works
Capitol
03/17/2026 at 03:15PM
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, will host a roundtable with U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.); U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley; (D-Ore.); U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.); U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.); Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration; and experts on clean energy and utility services to discuss how the Trump administration’s policies have driven up energy prices for working families.
Participants:
- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)
- U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
- U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
- U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
- U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)
- U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
- U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.)
- The Honorable Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Greg Wannier, Sierra Club Staff Attorney
- Talia Martin, GRID Alternatives Director of Tribal Programs
- Anna Poplavska, Arcadia Center Senior Policy Advocate
- Ted Thomas, PowerLines Board Member and former Arkansas Public Service Commission Chair