As I wrote yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the Senate will be voting on the resolution for a Green New Deal (GND).

“I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal, and we’re going to be voting on that in the Senate to give everybody an opportunity to go on record,” McConnell told reporters.

Mitch McConnell is going to force the Senate to vote on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, Tucker Higgins, CNBC, 2/12/2019

Having a vote on what may be a polarizing issue among voters may force lawmakers to choose between appeasing moderates and their liberal base — among them, many progressive activists who supported the concept of a Green New Deal long before the bill was released.
The resolution has amassed significant but by no means widespread support on Capitol Hill — there are 67 co-sponsors in the House and 11 in the Senate, including several current or potential presidential contenders: Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar.
Republicans showed on Tuesday that they are ready to use the resolution as a political weapon against those Democrats.

McConnell Plans To Bring Green New Deal To Senate Vote by Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 2/12/2019

As I also wrote yesterday, he played into the hands of the Sunrise Movement, the youth led organization behind the Green New Deal, that I am a member of. One of the main purposes of having Resolutions to create a Green New Deal ready for votes is to see who really supports the GND. Although most of us didn’t expect this opportunity to come up so soon, the Sunrise Movement embraces this as a chance to advance the ideas of the GND.

You get a sense of how well organized the Sunrise Movement is from our response to McConnell’s announcement Tuesday. A response was created, and a national call about the response was held last night. More than 900 were on the call to hear about #SenateSprint:

There were over 900 of us on the conference call last night. The plan, as you might expect, is to flood Senate offices with calls and visitors asking for support for the Green New Deal Resolution.

This vote is simply to call for the creation of a committee to work on legislation needed to make the Green New Deal a reality. It is not a vote on any specific implementation of the Green New Deal.

A groundswell of public support right now is really important.