The Chamber and its Institute for 21st Century Energy is engaging both presidential candidates and both major national political parties in a fact-based discussion focused on our nation's critical energy challenges.

Gen. Jim Jones (ret.), the Institute's president and CEO, joined other national policy experts at Sen. Barack Obama's "Conversation on Competitiveness" event in Pittsburgh on June 26. Jones is joining experts from the fields of energy, education, healthcare, infrastructure, and advanced science in a panel discussion being held at Carnegie Mellon University.

Jones also recently moderated an energy roundtable panel during Sen. John McCain's town hall meeting in Springfield, Missouri, on June 18. The event, featuring energy experts and CEOs, focused on how best to meet the nation's growing energy needs. "We have to approach [energy] with the same degree of seriousness as when President Eisenhower said let's build the interstate highway system and when President Kennedy said let's get a man on moon," Jones told the audience at the McCain event.