BGuthrie Photos: USCHS & US CVC -- "Congress and the Separation of Powers" -- Panel 1: Audacious Vision

USCHS & US CVC -- "Congress and the Separation of Powers" -- Panel 1: Audacious Vision:

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Description of Pictures: Congress and the Separation of Powers: Audacious Vision, Uneven History, and Uncertain Future
Panel 1 - Audacious Vision: Why a Separation of Powers?
Seated left to right:
* John Haskell (moderator)
* Gene Healy
* Alison LaCroix
* James I. Wallner

Join us for this discussion that will bring together an ideologically diverse group of academics and experts to take a closer look at the relationship between the three branches of government, and especially Congress’s role in shaping the Executive and Judicial branches over time.
This forum complements a new exhibit in the Capitol Visitor Center’s Exhibition Hall titled Congress and the Separation of Powers, which will run through March 4, 2019.

Organizer:
David Barker is Professor of Government (American Politics) and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. He has served as principal investigator on more than 60 externally funded research projects (totaling more than $11 million), and he has published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles in outlets such as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and many others. He has authored or coauthored three university press books: Rushed to Judgment: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior (2002; Columbia University Press), Representing Red and Blue: How the Culture Wars Change the Way Citizens Speak and Politicians Listen (2012; Oxford University Press) and One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts and American Democracy (under contract, expected 2018; Oxford University Press).

Panel 1 - Audacious Vision: Why a Separation of Powers?

Moderator:
John Haskell is the Director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and currently teaches public policy at Claremont McKenna College and Georgetown University. He has authored three books on American political institutions: Congress in Context, Direct Democracy or Representative Government?, and Fundamentally Flawed. Prior to his position at the Kluge Center, he served as Research Director for the 809 Panel for Defense acquisition reform. From 2013-2016 he was the head of the Government and Finance Research division at the Congressional Research Service (CRS). From 2000-2013 John was curriculum chair and senior fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. John served as a Legislative Assistant for a Member of Congress and associate staff to the House Budget Committee. John received his Ph.D. in American Politics from UNC Chapel Hill, and his B.A. is in Political Science from Davidson College.

Panelists:
Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute, and a contributing editor to Liberty. His research interests include executive power, the role of the presidency, federalism, and over-criminalization. He is the author of False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency and The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. He is also the editor of Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything. He has authored and co-authored Cato studies on executive abuses of power, including “Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years" and “Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush." Healy has appeared on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Talk of the Nation, and his work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Legal Times, and elsewhere. He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Alison LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History. Earlier, she was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law. She is the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism, and a co-editor of three volumes on law and literature. She is currently working on a book on American constitutional discourse between 1815 and 1861 (The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery From the Long Founding Moment to the Civil War), for which she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her interests include legal history, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, law and linguistics, and law and literature. She received her B.A. summa cum laude in history from Yale University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999. She received her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 2007.

James I. Wallner is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute. He is also an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Government at American University and a fellow at its Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. James is the author of two books, The Death of Deliberation: Partisanship and Polarization in the United States Senate, and On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the United States Senate. He has also published numerous articles on the American founding, separation of powers, political parties, Congress, legislative procedure, and the budget process in the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Law and Politics, Humanitas, and The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. James is a regular contributor with the Washington Examiner, Law and Liberty, and Real Clear Policy.
Prior to joining R Street, James was the Group Vice President for Research at The Heritage Foundation, where he created the Institute for Constitutional Government. Before Heritage, Wallner was the Executive Director of the Senate Steering Committee during the chairmanships of Pat Toomey and Mike Lee. Prior to this, he served as Legislative Director to Jeff Sessions and Pat Toomey. He began his career on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Assistant in the House of Representatives. James received both his doctoral and master’s degrees in politics from the Catholic University of America. He also holds a master’s in international and European politics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Georgia.

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5. SEPP1_180925_077.JPG: John Haskell (Director of the Kluge Center)
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