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Lee Hamilton lunches with the Indianapolis Committee on Foreign Relations and the Indiana Council on World Affairs … and so can you!

When: Thursday September 27, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Where: The Marten House 1801 W 86th St Indianapolis, IN 46260
Cost: $20 To RSVP contact Courtney Weldon at courtenay@cweldon.net

Lee Hamilton represented Indiana’s 9th congressional district from 1965-1999. During his tenure, he was Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Hamilton also was Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Hamilton established himself as a leading congressional voice on foreign affairs, with particular interests in promoting democracy and market reform in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, expanding U.S. markets and trade overseas, and overhauling U.S. export and foreign aid policies. His tenure in Congress coincided with many significant historical events, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Arab/Israeli peace negotiations, and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Hamilton also has been a leading figure on economic policy and congressional organization. He was Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, working to promote long-term economic growth and development, global market competition, and a sound fiscal policy. As Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and a member of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee, he was a primary draftsman of several House ethics reforms, and he worked to promote integrity and efficiency in Congress.

Hamilton remains an important and active voice on matters of international relations and American national security. He is a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, and in March 2006 he was named Co-Chairman, along with former Secretary of State James A. Baker, of the Iraq Study Group. This bipartisan panel, created at the urging of Congress, assessed the situation in Iraq and made recommendations on U.S. policy options there. Previously Hamilton served as Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), which issued its report in July 2004, and he co-chaired with former Gov. Thomas Kean the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, to monitor implementation of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. He was Co-Chairman with former Sen. Howard Baker of the Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos, he served on the United States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), and he was a member of the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform.

Hamilton is Director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton also serves as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. The Wilson Center, the nation’s official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, is a pre-eminent intellectual haven where scholars, policymakers and business leaders engage in a comprehensive and non-partisan dialogue on public policy issues and their effect on national and international thought and governance.

If this sounds interesting, check out … Lee Hamilton at Marian College the night before. Or contrast Mr Hamilton to his counterpart from south of the border, Carlos Fuentes, October 15.

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