Hutton Honors College
— Discussion Lunch on Current Affairs
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Discussion Lunch on current affairs with Lee Hamilton, vice chair of the 9/11 Commission and former U.S. Congressman.
This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here. Since leaving Congress in 1999, Lee Hamilton has continued to be a major figure in national political life and international affairs, serving as vice chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (more informally known as the 9/11 Commission), as a member of the U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, and as a member of the advisory council of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During his 34 years in Congress representing Indiana's Ninth District, Mr. Hamilton rose to positions of leadership in foreign affairs, economic policy, and congressional organization, serving as the chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the chair of the subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, and the chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. He also chaired the Joint Economic Committee and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and served as a member of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee, which dealt with matters of ethics. Since 1999, he has served as the director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and the Center for Congress at Indiana University. During the lunch, which is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program and the Hutton Honors College, students are welcome to discuss a wide range of topics with Mr. Hamilton, from homeland security to ethics in government to your views and his on current affairs. Lee Hamilton will be on campus as a Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study and will deliver a public lecture at noon, Wednesday, April 6, in the Moot Courtroom of the School of Law. Learn more about Lee Hamilton at The Center on
Congress at Indiana University
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