Senator Reed to Discuss New Center for American Progress Action Fun Mid-Year Assessment in Iraq
July 25, 2006, 9:30am – 11:30am
About This Event
U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and the Center for American Progress Action Fund will discuss a new mid-year report assessing the Bush administration's record in taking steps to ensure that 2006 is a period of significant transition.
This report, the second quarterly report in a series planned by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, assesses the Bush administration's record on Iraq in four key areas: Security and Stability; Governance and Democracy; Economic Reconstruction; and Iraq's Impact on U.S. National Security.
Last November, a bipartisan majority of 79 Senators voted for a measure declaring 2006 "to be a period of significant transition" and calling on the Bush administration to put forward a strategy for "the successful completion of the mission in Iraq." Earlier this month, the General Accounting Office, an independent investigative arm of Congress, found that the Bush administration's strategy for stabilizing Iraq does not adequately or effectively describe the steps it will take to achieve its goals.
The mid-year assessment report by the Center for American Progress Action Fund aims to fill gaps left unmet by status reports submitted by the Bush administration to Congress and the American public.
from left: Brian Katulis, Lawrence J. Korb, Senator Jack Reed, Joseph Cirincione
Introductions by:
Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Featured Speakers
U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)
Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Location
Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW
Washington,
DC
20005
Biographies
Jack Reed is the 47th United States Senator from Rhode Island. Elected to the Senate in 1996, Reed, who succeeded Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), previously served three terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District. Reed was born in 1949 in Providence, Rhode Island and grew up in Cranston, Rhode Island. After graduating from LaSalle Academy in Providence, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1971. Following his graduation from West Point and receiving an active duty commission in the United States Army, Reed attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he received a Masters of Public Policy. Reed, an Army Ranger and a paratrooper, served in the 82nd Airborne Division as an Infantry Platoon leader, a Company Commander and a Battalion Staff Officer. He returned to West Point in 1978 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences. Reed resigned from the Army as a Captain in 1979 and enrolled in Harvard Law School. In 1982, he graduated from Harvard and served a year as an associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan. In 1983, he returned to Rhode Island and joined Edwards and Angell, a Providence law firm. Reed was elected to the Rhode Island State Senate in 1984 and served for three terms. In 1990, Reed was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In his first term in Congress, Reed was described by the Boston Globe as "a relentless advocate for his home state." In 1996, when Senator Pell announced his retirement, Reed campaigned for and was elected to the United States Senate. Reed is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He is the senior Democratic member of the Joint Economic Committee.
Joseph Cirincione is Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy. Prior to joining the Center for American Progress Action Fund in May 2006, he served as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007), Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats (Second Edition, 2005), and co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (March 2005). He teaches at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Mr. Cirincione worked for nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the Military Reform Caucus. He is the author of numerous articles on nuclear weapons issues, the producer of two DVDs on proliferation, and is a frequent commentator on these issues in the media. He has held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters of Science with highest honors from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair. Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company. Mr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the Defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense’s medal for Distinguished Public Service. Mr. Korb served on active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer, and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain. His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Public Administration Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Naval Institute Proceedings, and International Security. Over the past decade, Mr. Korb has made over 1,000 appearances as a commentator on such shows as The Today Show, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, This Week with David Brinkley, MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Larry King Live, The O’Reilly Factor, and Crossfire. His more than 100 op-ed pieces have appeared in such major newspapers as the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Christian Science Monitor.
Brian Katulis is a Senior Fellow on the National Security Team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. At the Center, his work examines U.S. national security policy in Middle East and democratization, with a focus on Iraq. Prior to joining the Center, Katulis lived and worked in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, including projects in Egypt, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a senior associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. His previous experience includes work in the Near East and South Asian Directorate of the National Security Council and the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State during the Clinton administration. He has published articles in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Katulis received a graduate degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.
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