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The Intern Lecture Series is hosted by the Committee on House Administration, U.S. House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration, U.S. Senate.
INTERN ID IS REQUIRED
- Monday, July 7, 10 am, SR-325
Edward Schafer, Secretary of Agriculture - Ed Schafer was sworn in as the 29th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on January 28, 2008. Secretary Schafer brings a record as an innovative two-term governor of North Dakota to USDA along with extensive private sector experience as both an entrepreneur and a business executive. He has had a lifelong interest in conservation and helped arrange the U.S. Forest Service's May 2007 purchase of the 5,200 acre Elkhorn ranch in North Dakota. Sec. Schafer was elected chair of the Republican Governors Association in 2000 and that same year he co-founded and co-chaired the Governors Biotechnology Partnership to increase public understanding and support for the benefits of agricultural biotechnology.
- Monday, July 7, 2 pm, SR-385
Philip Henderson, Chair - Department of Politics, Catholic University - Philip Henderson is a professor at Catholic University and chairs its Department of Politics. He is the author of Managing the Presidency: The Eisenhower Legacy and the editor of The Presidency Then and Now. He is currently writing Twelve Leaders Who Made a Difference--a comparative study of U.S. political leaders who had a profound impact on the institutions in which they served. He has published articles and book chapters in Perspectives on Political Science, Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Political Science Reviewer, The Executive Office of the President, and The Presidency and National Security Policy. His teaching interests include: U.S. political leadership since 1789, executive branch policymaking, the U.S. presidency, and American national institutions.
- Tuesday, July 8, 11:30 am, SR-325
Senator Chuck Hagel – Senator Chuck Hagel, Nebraska's senior U.S. Senator, is serving his second term in the United States Senate. His duties include membership on four Senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking; Housing and Urban Affairs; Intelligence and Rules. Sen. Hagel is also the author of America: Our Next Chapter, a straight-forward examination of the current state of our nation which provides substantial proposals for the challenges of the 21st century. Earlier in his career, Sen. Hagel was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Council (PSC) in Washington, D.C., Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (G-7 Summit) and President and Chief Executive Officer of the World USO. He has won numerous awards. His participation in civic, educational, and charitable organizations has awarded him great recognition and appraisal. Notably, Sen. Hagel served in the Army during the Vietnam War, receiving two Purple Hearts.
- Tuesday, July 8, 3:30 pm, 1310 LHOB
Representative John Lewis – Congressman John Lewis has often been called "one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced." John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls "The Beloved Community" in America. He was born the son of sharecroppers on February 21, 1940, outside of Troy, Alabama. As a student at Fisk University, he organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. While still a young man, John Lewis became a nationally recognized leader. By 1963, he was dubbed one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. (The others were Whitney Young, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer and Roy Wilkins). At the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963. He was also a part of the non-violent march from Selma to Montgomery, which was attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as "Bloody Sunday." News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1977, John Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency. He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since then. He is Senior Chief Deputy Whip for the Democratic Party in leadership in the House, a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, a member of its Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support and Chairman of its Subcommittee on Oversight.
- Wednesday, July 9, 10 am, SDG-11
Joe Glauber, Chief Economist, USDA - As Chief Economist, Joe Glauber is responsible for USDA's agricultural forecasts and projections and for advising the Secretary of Agriculture on economic implications of alternative programs, regulations, and legislative proposals. His responsibilities include the Office of the Chief Economist, the World Agricultural Outlook Board, the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit analysis, the Global Change Program Office, and the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. He was recently elected to serve as Chairman of the Federal Crop Insurance Board of Directors in his capacity at USDA. In addition to his work in the Doha negotiations, he served as Senior Staff Economist for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Trade at the President's Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist at the USDA Economic Research Service.
- Wednesday, July 9, 3 pm, SR-385
Senator Robert Bennett – In 2004, Sen. Robert Bennett was elected to his third term in the U.S. Senate. A member of the Senate’s Banking and Appropriations Committees as well as the Joint Economic Committee, Sen. Bennett has distinguished himself as a leader on national economic policy. Additionally, Sen. Bennett serves as the ranking minority member on the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Sen. Bennett held the position of chief executive officer at the Franklin International Institute and acted as chief congressional liaison for the Department of Transportation prior to his Senate election.
- Thursday, July 10, 10 am, SC-4
Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior - Dirk Kempthorne was confirmed as the 49th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior on May 26, 2006, in a voice vote by the U.S. Senate. Prior to his confirmation as Secretary, Mr. Kempthorne served nearly two terms as Governor of Idaho, elected first in 1998 and reelected in 2002. Before his terms as Governor, Sec. Kempthorne was Mayor of the City of Boise (1985-1992). He also completed a successful six-year term in the United States Senate (1993-1999). As a Senator, he wrote, negotiated, and won passage of two major pieces of legislation: a bill to end unfunded federal mandates on state and local governments, and a substantial revision of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. He also worked to improve the quality of life for American active-duty military personnel, reservists, their families and veterans. Secretary of Education Rod Paige appointed then-Governor Kempthorne to the National Assessment Governing Board and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge appointed him to the Homeland Security Task Force.
- Thursday, July 10, 2 pm, SR-325
Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve - Donald L. Kohn originally took office on August 5, 2002, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a full term ending January 31, 2016. On June 23, 2006, Dr. Kohn was sworn in as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a four-year term ending June 23, 2010. Dr. Kohn is the Chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS), a central bank panel that monitors and examines broad issues related to financial markets and systems.
If you have any further questions, please contact Robert Henline at 202-225-1355.
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