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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, June 23, 11 AM, 1300 LHOB
Undersecretary C.H. "Bud" Albright, Jr. – Bud Albright was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as Under Secretary of Energy on June 21, 2007 and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 2007. Under Secretary Albright oversees the Department’s Energy and Environment programs, including its diverse portfolio of applied energy research and development activities, nuclear waste management efforts, and environmental cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Albright was Republican Staff Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. Mr. Albright also served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Additionally, Mr. Albright was as Associate Counsel on the U.S. Senate Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra incident. From 1981 through 1986, he also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. While attending law school, Mr. Albright worked on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as a legislative aide and personal aide to Senator Strom Thurmond.
- Tuesday, June 24, 11 AM, 1310 LHOB
Congressman Dennis Kucinich - Rep. Dennis Kucinich was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1996 and has been a tireless advocate for worker rights, civil rights, and human rights. In 1977, he was elected Mayor of Cleveland at the age of 31, making him at the time the youngest person ever elected to lead a major American city. In Congress, Rep. Kucinich has authored and co-sponsored legislation to create a national health care system, preserve Social Security, lower the costs of prescription drugs, provide economic development through infrastructure improvements, abolish the death penalty, provide universal prekindergarten to all 3, 4, and 5 year olds, create a Department of Peace, regulate genetically engineered foods, repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, and provide tax relief to working class families. Rep. Kucinich has been honored by Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters as a champion of clean air, clean water and an unspoiled earth. Twice he has been an official United States delegate to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (1998, 2004) and attended the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rep. Kucinich has sought his party’s Presidential nomination during the 2004 and 2008 Presidential primaries.
- Tuesday, June 24, 3 PM 2212 RHOB
Congressman Ike Skelton – Rep. Ike Skelton has represented Missouri's Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1977. His district includes Missouri's state capital, Jefferson City, and much of the Ozarks. He is a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy and the University of Missouri at Columbia where he received A.B. and L.L.B. degrees. A leader in the House on defense issues, Rep. Skelton is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He is also a former chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Procurement, Tourism and Rural Development.
- Wednesday, June 25, 10 AM, SR-385
Michael A. Braun, Assistant Administrator and Chief of Operations, Drug Enforcement Agency - As DEA Chief of Operations, Special Agent Michael A. Braun is responsible for leading the worldwide drug enforcement operations of the agency’s 227 domestic and 87 foreign offices. He was appointed to this position in February 2005 and is a principal advisor to the DEA Administrator on all enforcement-related matters. From December 2003 to his current assignment, Mr. Braun headed the Office of Special Intelligence and later led the entire Intelligence Division. He was also appointed by the Deputy Attorney General to serve as the first interim director of the new Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Intelligence Fusion Center. Mr. Braun was responsible for leading the formative development of this multi-agency, national drug intelligence center that supports the national drug strategy and our nation’s war on terrorism. In June 2003, shortly after the Iraq invasion by U.S. and coalition partners, Mr. Braun was detailed to the Department of Defense to serve on special assignment in Iraq as the Chief of Staff for the Interim Ministry of Interior, Coalition Provisional Authority. He assisted in creating the new Iraqi National Police Service and Customs and Borders agencies, and with developing plans to rebuild the public safety segment of the Iraqi security infrastructure.
- Wednesday, June 25, 3 PM, SR 325
Senator Johnny Isakson – Sen. Johnny Isakson entered Georgia politics in 1974 and served 17 years in the Georgia Legislature and three years as Chairman of the Georgia Board of Education. In 1999, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms before being elected to the United States Senate in November of 2004. Sen. Isakson helped pass the President's 2001 tax relief package and is committed to making it permanent. He has worked to strengthen our Armed Forces, and continues to show unwavering commitment to the men and women who serve our country. Johnny was an original author of the President's No Child Left Behind Act. Additionally, Sen. Isakson has worked to enhance and maintain Georgia's roads, while also working for mass transit alternatives to reduce congestion and improve air quality.
- Thursday, June 26, 10 AM, 1310 LHOB
Congressman Nick Rahall - Rep. Nick Rahall represents the Third Congressional District of West Virginia. First elected in 1976, he is currently serving his 16th term and is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. Rahall serves as the Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. For more than 30 years, Rahall has built a strong record of championing the causes most important to his fellow West Virginians. He is a Congressional leader on mining-related issues, and a veteran of every federal highway bill since coming to Congress. He is also an outspoken advocate of our Nation’s troops, veterans, and military families; access to high quality and affordable healthcare and education; and the protection of West Virginia’s values, lands, and way of life. Rahall was also leader in the effort to end royalty holidays and giveaways to big oil and gas companies, and in July, he introduced the Coal to Liquid Fuel Energy Act of 2006 in an effort to encourage investment in coal liquefaction.
- Thursday, June 26, 3 PM, SH 902
Senator John Cornyn – Sen. John Cornyn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and was selected by his colleagues in December 2006 to be a member of the five-person Republican Senate leadership team – Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference – the only first-term Senator in recent memory to be so honored. Sen. Cornyn serves on the Armed Services, Judiciary and Budget Committees. In addition, he is Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. He serves as the top Republican on both the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Refugees and Border Security subcommittee and the Armed Services Committee’s Airland subcommittee.
- Friday, June 27, 9:30 AM, 2168 RHOB
Brian Lamb, C-SPAN - Brian Lamb helped found C-SPAN—the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network—and has served as the company’s chief executive officer since its beginning in 1979. Today, more than 86 million households can tune in C-SPAN’s flagship television network. The concept of a public affairs network that provides in-depth coverage of national and international issues was a natural for Mr. Lamb, who has been both a journalist and a political press secretary. Early in his career, he worked as a freelance reporter for UPI Audio, a Senate press secretary and a White House telecommunications policy staffer. By 1977, Mr. Lamb had won the support of key cable industry executives for a channel that could deliver gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. Congress. Organizing C-SPAN as a not-for-profit company, the group built one of D.C.’s first satellite uplinks—just in time to deliver the first televised session of the U.S. House of Representatives to 3.5 million cable households on March 19, 1979. With cable industry support, C-SPAN grew rapidly and today employs 275 people and offers three 24-hour television networks, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3.
If you have any further questions, please contact Robert Henline at 202-225-1355.
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