Former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) and James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will be taking questions from a group of high school students during the program.

Tonight’s airing is the second of a series of programs inaugurated by IU’s Center on Congress to instruct young people about the U.S. Congress, in partnership with the Close Up Foundation. The first program, which aired Jan. 21, examined the role of Congress and featured former Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kansas) and former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), who directs the IU center. In the first program in the series, the two veteran legislators spoke about the role of Congress and about the need for members of Congress to put aside partisan differences to get things accomplished.

The show is available to more than 75 million cable households on C-SPAN and is taped for use in the classroom by high school teachers across the country.

The non-partisan IU Center on Congress was created to help improve the public’s understanding of Congress and to strengthen civic engagement, especially among young people. Information about Congress is disseminated in a variety of ways, including newspaper columns, Web site materials, radio commentaries, teaching materials, videos and CD-ROMs.

http://www.closeup.org/cuf-tv.htm

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