The 2009-10 Matsui Lecture
"How
Congress Works: Lessons from the Health Care Debate"
The Honorable Victor H. Fazio, Member of Congress, 1979-1999
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 4 p.m.
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC-Berkeley
Reception will follow
Free and open to the public
Please register here
As the debate over health care reform dominates the nation's politics,
former Congressman Victor H. Fazio explores the policy debate and the
lessons it holds for the functioning of Congress. How has Congress
changed through the years? How does it work today? And how are those
changes reflected in the health care discussion?
Congressman Fazio represented a district in the Sacramento area for 20
years, from
1979 to 1999. He served as Chairman of the House Democratic caucus, the
third-ranking position in the Democratic leadership, and as Chairman of
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the political arm of
the House Democrats. He is also a former member of the California
Legislature and a former journalist who co-founded the California
Journal. Fazio is now a Senior Advisor at the law firm of Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
The Matsui Lecture is delivered
each year by a distinguished former Member of Congress who spends a
week in residency on the Berkeley campus. The Lectureship honors the
legacy of Robert T. Matsui, a Cal graduate who served in Congress for
more than a quarter century, building a reputation for bipartisanship
and substantive policy achievement. That legacy is also honored by the
University's Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service,
which seeks to engage Cal undergraduates in public service through the
presence of distinguished visitors to campus, public programs exploring
important issues, and internship programs offering experiential
learning. The Matsui Center is a component of the UC-Berkeley Institute
of Governmental Studies, the state's oldest public policy research
center.
Register here for the
Matsui Lecture
For more information on the Matsui Center, please click here
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Ethan Rarick
Director
Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service
Institute of Governmental Studies
University of California, Berkeley
111 Moses MC 2370
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-5158
erarick@berkeley.edu