“Will America Summon the Political Will” is a video about one of the largest bills to be debated by Congress. This bill is known as the “Lieberman/Warner Climate Security Act”. Introduced by Joseph Lieberman and John Warner on October 18th, 2007. It was to be considered by the United Sates Senate, in order to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the United States. This bill would grant hundreds of billions of dollars to utilities for carbon capture and storage technology. As well as, hundreds of billions dollars more to wind, solar incentives, and other renewable research. Estimates for the total package in the next 40 years would run anywhere from 1.5-7 trillion dollars. In December 2007, the Senate Environment Committee sat down to decide whether the Lieberman/Warner Climate Bill should be recommended to the Senate floor for a vote. Throughout the video, it talked about the debate on whether the bill would help benefit the nation’s economy or not. Senator James Inhofe argued how it would be the greatest move for China because the legislation would drive up energy cost, forcing American companies and jobs overseas, as well as forcing many American’s to pay higher heating bills, pay more money on gas, and be at a higher risk for losing their jobs . However, Senator Benjamin Cardin argued to differ by saying how he believed the economy would respond in a positive way and the price in energy cost will go down. After nine and a half hours the bill was put to a vote, the voting outcome reported favorably to the senate. When this bill hit the Senate floor gas prices were hitting all-time highs. This left the bill to become dead on arrival. Congress didn’t want to get involved in anything that would make gas prices go any higher. In the video they stated that the bill, “fell into a procedural black hole”. Meaning that this bill never came to a vote. All the senators and candidates that were up for re-election did