Ben Geman/ The Hill/ June 1, 2010

Senators in both parties considered swing votes on climate change legislation are under pressure from a $3 million advertising campaign launched this week.

The television ads press lawmakers in more than a dozen states to end Capitol Hill “bickering” and approve the sweeping climate change and energy bill unveiled last month by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).

The advertisements stress that the U.S. is losing out to other countries by delaying further investment in green energy jobs. It also warns that delay makes the U.S. continually dependent on foreign oil producers.

“The Chinese are kicking our butts in clean energy investment. The Europeans are taking our new energy jobs, and countries who hate us are getting rich selling us oil while Washington just bickers,” states the first ad in the campaign, which the groups say will also include online spots, direct mail and field work.

Republicans for Environmental Protection and the Truman National Security Project — which counts former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on its advisory board —began airing the first in a series of television ads Tuesday.

The ad campaign — which a spokesman for the Truman National Security Project said is expected to continue for weeks — includes TV ads in Washington, New Mexico, North Dakota, Michigan, Maine, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Oregon, Virginia, Massachusetts, Florida and New Hampshire.

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