In advance of the Netroots Nation conference last week, organizers of the conference set up a system where community members could submit and vote on questions to be asked of Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak. The top question came from Adam Green:

So, will you commit to — and publicly call on other Senate Democrats to commit to — a caucus-wide rule that if a Democrat is lead sponsor on legislation, all Democrats will support cloture and allow a clean up-or-down vote?

My question, which was voted to third place, was very similar:

If given the opportunity will you promise to vote for cloture on climate legislation?

Ari Melber, who hosted the event, ended up using my question as a follow-up to Adam’s.

Ari Melber: We’ll go to the third question though, in stitching these together then, on the climate legislation, on employee free choice, on a public option health care plan, these are all areas where you would be voting with the majority to have up or down votes?

Arlen Specter: Yes, no doubt about those three issues at all.

The quoted portion begins at the 1:54 mark in the video below: