Congressional Hosts

The following U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress will be hosts for the Legislative Fellows in the Spring Delegation(2012).

Congressman Andre Carson

District: Indiana 7^th District – Democrat
Member of Congress Since: 2007 (2^nd term)
Committee Membership: Financial Services, Homeland Security, Governmental Affairs, Armed Services
LFP Fellowship Placement: Nawaf Al-Kout (Kuwait)
Website: http://carson.house.gov

Congressman Alcee Hastings

District: Florida 23rd District – Democrat
Member of Congress Since: 1993 (10^th term)
Committee Membership: Intelligence, Rules
State: Connecticut – Independent Democrat
Senator Since: 1988 (4th term -- Senators serve 6 year terms)
Committee Membership: Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Chairman), Armed Services, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
LFP Fellowship Placement: Tayseer Ahmed (Egypt)
Website:  http://www.alceehastings.house.gov

Senator Joseph Lieberman

State: Connecticut – Independent Democrat
Senator Since: 1988 (4th term -- Senators serve 6 year terms)
Committee Membership: Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Chairman), Armed Services, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
LFP Fellowship Placement: Osama Mofta (Egypt)
Website:  http://lieberman.senate.gov/

Congressman Bobby Rush 

District: Illinois 1^st District – Democrat
Member of Congress Since: 1993 (10^th term)
Committee Membership: Energy and Commerce, Technology and Internet, Education and Labor
LFP Fellowship Placement: Hassan Zouheir Abassi (Morocco)
Website: http://www.house.gov/rush

Congresswoman Susan Davis

District: California 53rd District – Democrat
Member of Congress Since: 2001 (Serving 5^th term)
Committee Membership: House Armed Services Committee, where she is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. She also sits on the Education and Workforce Committee
LFP Fellowship Placement: Mubarak Al-Hinai (Oman)
Website: http://www.house.gov/susandavis/

Congressman Dave Camp

District: Michigan 4th Congressional District – Republican
Member of Congress Since: 1991 (11^th term)
Committee Membership: House Committee on Ways and Means (Chairman)
LFP Fellowship Placement: Nadia Rabaa (Morocco)

Website:http://camp.house.gov/

Congressman Reid Ribble

District: Wisconsin 8^th District – Republican
Member of Congress Since: 2011 (1^st term)
Committee Membership: Budget Committee, the Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
LFP Fellowship Placement: Alia ElBaddiny (Egypt)
Website: http://ribble.house.gov/

Congressman Tom Petri
District: Wisconsin 6^th District -- Republican
Member of Congress Since: 1979-Present (17^th term)
Committee Membership: The Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
LFP Fellowship Placement: Ahmed Al-Makhmari (Oman)
Website: http://petri.house.gov/

German Marshall Fund of the United States
LFP Fellowship Placement: Miad Al-Bulushi (Oman)
Website: http://www.gmfus.org/

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting better understanding and cooperation between North America and Europe on transatlantic and global issues.

GMF does this by supporting individuals and institutions working in the transatlantic sphere, by convening leaders and members of the policy and business communities, by contributing research and analysis on transatlantic topics, and by providing exchange opportunities to foster renewed commitment to the transatlantic relationship. In addition, GMF supports a number of initiatives to strengthen democracies.

Founded in 1972 through a gift from Germany as a permanent memorial to Marshall Plan assistance, GMF maintains a strong presence on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to its headquarters in Washington, DC, GMF has seven offices in Europe: Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Belgrade, Ankara, Bucharest, and Warsaw. GMF also has smaller representations in Bratislava, Turin, and Stockholm.

In 1947, at a Harvard University commencement ceremony, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall first announced plans to rebuild war-torn Europe.  That speech led to the creation of the Marshall Plan, credited with putting Europe back on track to democracy and prosperity following the devastation caused by World War II. Twenty-five years later, German Chancellor Willy Brandt went to Harvard to announce plans to create a permanent memorial to Marshall Plan assistance, through a gift of DM 150 million on behalf of the German people. “The memory of the past has become the mission of the future,” he said.

The German Marshall Fund of the United States is the result of Germany’s generous gift.  Consistent with Brandt’s vision, GMF is dedicated to the promotion of greater understanding and common action between Europe and the United States. The German government renewed its commitment to GMF with subsequent rounds of funding in 1986 and 2001 that resulted in a substantial endowment, ensuring GMF’s work would continue well into the future.

From the very beginning, GMF was envisioned as an institution that would work with all of Europe. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, GMF rapidly expanded its work in Central and Eastern Europe and played an instrumental role during the 1990s in assisting with the transitions to democracy in this region.

Today, as an independent American public policy and grant-making institution, GMF continues to foster cooperation between the United States and Europe on the most pressing transatlantic issues, both inside and outside Europe’s changing borders.  GMF also continues strengthen democratic institutions in the spirit of the Marshall Plan.

The Corporation for National and Community Service

LFP Fellowship Placements:  Hind Al-Nadeh (Kuwait) and Imad Eddine Rachid (Morocco)
Website: http://www.nationalservice.gov/

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve.CNCS plays a vital role in supporting the American culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility. We are a catalyst for community solutions and champion for the ideal that every American has skills and talents to give.

At a time of social need, CNCS and the network it supports engages more than 5 million Americans in results-driven service each year via 70,000 community and faith-based organizations. Through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, the Social Innovation Fund, United We Serve, and other programs, CNCS taps the power of citizens to improve lives, solve problems, strengthen communities, and build the capacity of the nonprofit sector.

Participants in CNCS programs mentor and tutor at-risk youth, rebuild communities struck by natural disasters, help seniors live independently, support veterans and military families, and more. Based on principles of local control, competition, accountability, and public-private partnership, CNCS provides a “triple bottom line” return on investment: benefiting the recipients of service, the people who serve, and the larger community and nation.

Service Through CNCS Programs Strengthens Communities

National service participants have improved the lives of millions of our most vulnerable citizens by helping children learn to read, caring for seniors, rebuilding communities struck by disasters, helping veterans readjust to civilian life, and more. Tens of thousands of nonprofits and faith-based organizations have been able to increase their capacity and effectiveness thanks to trained and dedicated volunteers serving through CNCS programs.

The members and volunteers who serve in CNCS programs provide vital assistance to institutions and organizations that serve the public, including national and local nonprofits, schools, disaster relief groups, public agencies, and faith-based and community organizations.

CNCS administers the following programs and initiatives to foster solutions that help mobilize other volunteers and build the capacity of organizations and communities to solve problems:

• Senior Corps engages 300,000 Americans age 55 and older annually as Foster Grandparents, Senior Companions, and RSVP volunteers.
• AmeriCorps engages 80,000 men and women each year in intensive service to address education, poverty, health, disaster relief, and other critical issues, while mobilizing nearly 3 million volunteers for the organizations they serve.
• Learn and Serve America engages hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students annually in service learning connected to academic instruction.
• The Social Innovation Fund promotes public and private investments in effective nonprofit organizations to help them replicate and expand to serve more low-income communities.
• The Volunteer Generation Fund strengthens the nation’s civic infrastructure by helping nonprofits recruit, manage, and support more volunteers.
• The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program increases the ability of nonprofits in resource-poor communities to implement performance management systems.
• The Martin Luther King Day of Service supports community organizations in their efforts to engage local citizens in service on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday.
• The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll honors colleges and universities for the commitment of their students, faculty, and staff to community service.
• The September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of an effort originally launched in 2002 by 9/11 family members and support groups, who worked to establish the charitable service day as a forward-looking way to honor 9/11 victims, survivors, and others who rose up in service in response to the attacks.

The end results of national service tell stories that reveal the benefits for the people involved with the service as well as the communities reached.