10月17日, 2019 的 House of 代表resentatives’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will be the subject of a public forum when two former members of Congress visit St. 博纳旺蒂尔大学 next month as part of the Congress to Campus program.

Former Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez of California and former 代表ublican Congressman J. Phillip Gingrey of Georgia will be on campus Nov. 10-12. In addition to visiting classes and engaging with campus media representatives, they will hold an evening forum, which is free and open to the public.

论坛定于晚上7点举行.m. 周一,11月. 11、在威廉F. Walsh Science Center amphitheater on campus, will address the topic: “Are We Facing a Constitutional Crisis? 的 House Impeachment Investigation and President Trump.”

的 Congress to Campus program, 成立于1988年, gives college students an opportunity to interact with former members of Congress. Bipartisan pairs of former legislators travel to campuses across the country and around the world to share their insights and experiences in an effort to improve students’ understanding of the American political system and to encourage them to consider careers in public service.

的 Monday evening public forum will be sandwiched between a host of daytime engagements on campus with students Monday and Tuesday, 博士说. 约西亚兰伯特, associate professor of political science, 系主任, and coordinator of the Congress to Campus SBU的课程.

“Former 代表resentatives Sanchez and Gingrey will visit classes, 包括我的国会课, where we are running a Model Senate. 的y will appear as expert witnesses on the issue of election security,” 兰伯特说. “除了, I will be setting up interviews with some of our student media outlets — SBU-TV, the Bona Venture student newspaper, and TAPinto Greater Olean — and with student leaders. 的re will also be an informal lunch with students 周一.”

St. 博纳旺蒂尔 is an annual participant in the Congress to Campus program, which serves as an important reminder of how government should work, 兰伯特说. “In an era of increasing partisan polarization, Congress to Campus brings two former members of Congress, one 代表ublican and one Democrat, to show our students that members of opposing parties can work together and can propose how current members can work together,他说.

桑切斯曾 in Congress from 1997 to 2017, representing Orange County, California. She held senior positions on the Armed Forces and Homeland Security committees, was a ranking member of the Subcommittee for Air Tactical and Land Forces, 为战略部队服务 Subcommittee, and served as vice chair of the Border and Maritime Security Committee.

Sanchez led efforts in policy on 教育 attainment for all, small business regulatory reform, 医疗保健计划, cannabis regulation and banking, 技术创新. She led the fight to expand preschool for all children in America.

今天, Sanchez is a partner in a data management and analytics firm specializing in political and commercial applications. 2018年，她担任 an Advanced Leadership Initiative fellow-in-residence at Harvard University. She is presently working through the ALI structure on a project to address the housing crisis in California.

Gingrey served Georgia’s 11th Congressional District, just north of Atlanta, from 2003 to 2015. He served on numerous influential committees including the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Committee on Armed Services. 他是…的高级成员 the Science Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.

金格雷撰写, sponsored and won passage of several major initiatives, including the bipartisan Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now (GAIN) Act, the Green Chemistry 研究 and Development Act, and the bipartisan Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Children Protection Act. A medical doctor who delivered more than 5,000 babies in his obstetrics/gynecology practice of more than 27 years, 代表. Gingrey founded the GOP Doctors Caucus in 2009. 的 caucus brings together medical professionals in Congress to discuss and introduce legislation concerning the most pressing health care matters.

Gingrey now serves as a senior adviser for the national law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP providing public policy and government relations counsel to clients on issues related to health care, 能源与环境, 教育, 通信, 生命科学. He is active in his community and serves on a number of boards including the Georgia Regents Health System Board of Directors.

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