← The Energy War

Season 1

3 episodes · 1979

  1. 1Mark Up

    01 Jan 1979 · 1 hr 28 min

    Covers the frantic lobbying through the first test vote on the Senate floor.

  2. 2Filibuster

    08 Jan 1979 · 1 hr 30 min

    Spans the historic eight-day filibuster and subsequent passage by the Senate of a bill diametrically opposed to the President’s.

  3. 3Final Vote

    15 Jan 1979 · 2 hr 0 min

    Depicts the Herculean effort by the President, Secretary Schlesinger, and congressional allies, to wrest a natural gas compromise and steer it through a formidable coalition of Left and Right, and finally into law.