ANNUAL EVENT Honors Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman John Kerry shares memories from his years on the committee.
ON JULY 10, 2012, the U.S. Capitol Historical Society honored the history and accomplishments of the Senate Commit- tee on Foreign Relations with a reception and dinner. Remarks were given by Chairman John Kerry (MA) and Ranking Member Richard Lugar (IN), and the keynote address was given by the Honor- able Chuck Hagel. Additional coverage of the event is forth- coming; here are a few initial photos.
Ranking Member Richard Lugar greets the crowd at the dinner honoring the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
USCHS ANNUAL SUMMER Brown Bag Series
THIS SUMMER'S annual brown bag lecture series featured a number of wonderful speakers on a wide variety of topics. Some of them were focusing on changes to the institutional aspects of the Congress, while others examined
ground, as well as his role in command- ing the largest British force to ever approach and enter Washington, DC in August 1814, culminating in the burn- ing of both the Capitol and the White House, in retaliation for the burning of
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the Capitol itself. It was a truly interest- ing series of lectures from an accom- plished group of individuals. Dr. John McCavitt, a visiting profes-
The Honorable Chuck Hagel welcomes Senator Johnny Isakson (GA) to the dinner.
sor from Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, started things off with a lecture titled, "Major General Robert Ross and the Burning of the Capitol." In discussing this topic, McCavitt detailed Ross's personal and military back-
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federal buildings in York, Upper Canada. Next, former House parliamentarian
Charles Johnson spoke about the procedural changes in the House over the past several decades. He pointed to a number of ways in which the House had become more polarized, including ways in which the Rules Committee had changed its practices and procedures, as well as the increasing "win every
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