{"id":86439,"date":"2014-06-19T16:26:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.one.org\/us\/?post_type=one_press&amp;p=86439"},"modified":"2014-06-19T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:26:06","slug":"one-applauds-senate-introduction-of-the-energize-africa-act","status":"publish","type":"one_press","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-applauds-senate-introduction-of-the-energize-africa-act\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE Applauds Senate Introduction of the Energize Africa Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/us\/2014\/06\/US_Capitol_Building_669px.jpg\" alt=\"US_Capitol_Building_669px\" width=\"669\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The ONE Campaign welcomes today\u2019s introduction of the bipartisan Energize Africa Act (S. XX) in the US Senate. The bill is similar to the Electrify Africa Act (H.R. 2548), which passed the US House overwhelmingly in May. Both pieces of legislation aim to help African governments bring electricity access to 50 million people for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Hart<\/strong>, US Executive Director of ONE, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe applaud Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bob Corker (R-TN) for working together on a bill that not only promises to save and improve millions of lives, but offers a new way forward for assisting Africa \u2013 government working with private sector investment \u2013 at no cost to US taxpayers. We urge Senators from both parties to co-sponsor the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Energize Africa Act, like the Electrify Africa Act that passed the House, is a transformative piece of legislation that would help millions of people access the electricity necessary to run hospitals, schools, factories, farms, and businesses. Taken alongside President Obama\u2019s Power Africa initiative, which aims to double energy access in sub-Saharan Africa over five years, the US is putting the critical issue of energy poverty at the heart of the international development agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Tackling energy poverty is critical to ONE\u2019s core mission of fighting global extreme poverty. 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