from 1989 to 1993 mrs. cheney served at the department of state the agency for international development. during the 2000 and 24 campaigns she managed vice presidential debate preparation and served as national sarah get for the bush-cheney campaign. she's currently collaborating with her father, vice president cheney on his memoirs covering 40 years of his career in washington. she earned her degree from university of chicago and bachelor's degree from colorado college. like our organizations namesake, clare boothe luce, liz cheney is a very accomplished woman, expert in the area of foreign affairs and middle eastern affairs but she has one other important role on her resonate. she is also a wife and the mother of five children one of whom is with us today. liz cheney has the qualities that make great conservative women leaders love of country commitment to family and brave defenders of conservative principles. and you know, buy standing still firmly, liz, you inspire all conservatives to be courageous and feisty

mr. cheney's. what has occurred, over the period of time, was the accretion of too much power to the executive. this has no partisan tenth to it. we are talking about constitutional order. people can have disagreements in terms of the powers of the executive. let me put this out. when we talk about state secrets, underlying that is the power to classify. what we have failed to do as a community is to examine the process of classification because what i see again and again is classification of material that is later declassified or comes as you suggest, the gentleman from iowa has indicated, goes into the public domain and everyone is perplexed, simply because there's no rational basis for classifying that information. so, mr. grossman seems to have great confidence in the executive. his testimony is there are 7 separate requirements including the department of justice review and personal consideration by high-ranking federal officials, ensuring that the state secrets privilege is used only when nec

mr. cheney's plan that it was crippled. will congress for the people ever demanded restoration of the balance of power between the branches as the founders had intended? i think the answer to that question will have to wait for another symposium as we look further this presidency down the road. for now, i think we can assume the the democratic congress is content to defer, acquiesce to their party's activist president. if he succeeds, they succeed, and they know that. if he does not succeed, the more research independence as a co- equal branch. >> thank you very much. publicly the panelists open for questions after that a. -- after that note. the assumption is often made that the presidency has been advantaged in the media and age. a camera can focus more readily on a single individual as opposed to a complex institution like congress and their for the presidency as an institution has been elevated by media attention to those who are arguing. an alternative argument can be made based on the same technology. that is that the

mrs. cheney is an attorney and a specialist in u.s. release policy, and she recently served as principal deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. in this capacity she was the second ranking state department official responsible for u.s. policy in the middle east. she practiced law in the area of international project finance for three years and then served on assignment with the international finance corporation where she provided legal advisor on investments in the middle east and central asia. from 1989 to 1993, she served at the department of state at the agency for international development. during the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, she managed vice presidential debate preparations and served as a national service for the bush-cheney campaign. she is currently collaborating with the father, vice president cheney, on his memoirs, covering four years of his career in washington. she earned her law degree from the university of chicago and her bachelor's degree from colorado college. like our organizations

mr. cheney's assessment that somehow it was crippled after the nixon and ford administrations. the question should be well congress and the people demand restoration of balance of power between the branches as the founders intended? i think the answer to that will have to await another symposium as we look further at this presidency down the road but for now and this we can assume the democratic congress is content to defer and acquiesce in most of the policies proposed by their party's activist president. if he succeeds they succeed and they know it. if he does not succeed they will reassert their independence as a coequal branch sometime in the future. thank you. him i thank you very much. i would like to leave the panelists open to questions following on not note aaron >> and question following on don's conclusion there, the assumption is often made in a political science literature that the presidency has been advantaged in the media age that the television camera, for example can focus more readily on a single individual as opposed to complex institution flight progress an

cheney and i were out flyfishing. [laughter] >> and he kind of taken aback by this and i said you were so great, mr. vice president. we run for president one day? let's bring up right now richard russo. he has written a wonderful book that old cape magic. and i would just turn it over to him. he has some great dick cheney stores as well. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you. not having a morning show of my own i had to write mine down. i hope you don't mind. that old cape magic, my new novel, was supposed to be a short story. otherwise, i wouldn't have even begun it. my previous novel, bridge of sighs, had left me drained. the needle on my creative gas tank bouncing off the empty. somehow i had to know you could write a book about despair without feeling just a little bit of that particular emotion yourself. i had imagined that lucy lynch, my protagonist was a haunted one. he, not i., would have to make his solitary journey halfway across his own personal bridge. nothing but darkness and loss awaiting him on the other side. before finally turning back on the advice of a dead man, he and i were not exactly psychic twi

mr. speaker, the ros-lehtinen substitute is not just a step back in policy. it's a step back in time. it attempts to reinstate the failed bush-cheney-rumsfeld managing the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it gives the president a massive blank check and then walks away from its responsibility as a co-equal branch of government. the ros-lehtinen substitute strips out all policy from the bill. it has no package to encourage to change their behavior. it has no provisions for keeping congress involved in the process. it has no guidance whatsoever for the president about how taxpayer dollars ought to be spent. this is not legislation. this is advocation. as pakistan -- is pakistan cooperating with the u.s. to dismantle nuclear supplier networks? apparently it doesn't matter in the republican substitute. are they ending their support to extreme groups? judging by the republican substitute, who cares. is pakistan working to prevent cross-border attacks on its neighbors and strengthening its counterterrorism laws? if the republican substitute is any guide, in the words of jackie mason, this is not my business. we've tried the minority approac