Henry Waxman to deliver lecture at UCLA
(UCLA Faculty Center)
WHAT:
U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D–Calif.) will deliver the 23rd annual Bollens–Ries–Hoffenberg lecture at UCLA, "How Congress Is Helping to Meet the Challenges of Our Time."
Waxman, who has served in Congress since 1975, is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is at the center of current debates on health care reform, financial regulation and global warming. He is the author, with Joshua Green, of the critically acclaimed new book "The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works" (Grand Central Publishing, 2009).
Waxman is former chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Prior to his election to Congress, he served three terms in the California Assembly. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law.
"We are deeply honored to have a public servant of Henry Waxman's stature and experience to deliver this year's lecture," said former Los Angeles County Supervisor Edmund D. Edelman, chairman of the lecture committee. "Again and again over his 34-year career, Congressman Waxman has succeeded, often against long odds, in getting Congress to do what's right."
WHEN:
6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28
WHERE:
UCLA Faculty Center, on the UCLA campus (map)
BACKGROUND:
The lecture, named for the esteemed late professors John C. Bollens and John C. Ries and professor emeritus Marvin Hoffenberg, is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science and the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Recent past lecturers have included UC Berkeley business school dean and former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell, writer Malcolm Gladwell and former California Govs. Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian and Gray Davis.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Minne Ho, UCLA School of Public Affairs, 310-916-8465
PARKING:
To arrange press parking, journalists should call the media contact.
Civic Center Haiti Relief Fund Drive
(City Hall, 200 N. Main Street (Main Street between 1st and Temple0, Los Angeles 90012 )
Councilmembers Jan Perry and Bernard Parks (in partnership with NBC 4, Hot 92.3, AM 570, KIIS FM, 98.7 FM & the Salvation Army)
Invite you to participate in the Civic Center Haiti Relief Fund Drive
Thursday, January 28, 2010-6AM - 6PM
City Hall
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200 N. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Volunteers will be on-site collecting donations to help those in need in Haiti.
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Do your part to bring some measure of relief to Haiti!
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Please contact: David Cano at (213) 473-7009 or email david.cano@lacity.org
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