[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 26 (Thursday, March 10, 1994)]
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                          CONSTITUTIONAL FORUM

  (Mr. SKAGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, the one thing that each of us raises our 
hand and swears to at the beginning of each Congress is to uphold and 
defend the Constitution of the United States. Yet, I would speculate 
that it is a document that almost none of us fully understand in all 
its complexity, and subtlety and history.
  In order to try to remedy our need for further understanding and 
education in constitutional issues, the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Leach] 
and I are beginning what we are calling the constitutional forum. The 
forum will sponsor a series of luncheon meetings for Members to discuss 
in depth, and we hope seriously, constitutional issues facing this 
body.
  The first of these sessions will be this coming Tuesday, and we will 
feature a discussion of the war powers issue and the constitutional 
tension between executive and legislative authority over the use of 
U.S. military power.

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  We will feature the newly named counsel to the President, Lloyd 
Cutler, and Harold Koh, a constitutional scholar from Yale Law School, 
to discuss that issue. We invite all of our colleagues to join us for 
what we hope will be a very useful series of discussions of 
constitutional matters.

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