Feb 11, 2012
Congress
Reaching out to members of Congress and their staff to provide targeted, useful, and timely support from the world’s top experts in defense and security policy, global challenges, and regional studies.
Expert Support for Congress
For more than 40 years, as one of the nation’s leading bipartisan institutions, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has prioritized outreach to members of Congress and their staff to provide targeted, useful, and timely support from the world’s top experts in defense and security policy, global challenges, and regional studies.
Because of CSIS’s unique emphasis on proposing grounded, bipartisan policy solutions in addition to analysis, we speak Congress’s language and work at Congress’s pace.
CSIS Provides:
- A bipartisan platform from which members of Congress can powerfully engage the wider policy community
- In-office briefings from top policy experts with government, academic, and field experience
- Staff focused policy discussions
- CSIS Critical Question one-pagers on the day’s hot topic
- World class reports with realistic policy recommendations
- Testimony
- Congressional involvement in CSIS projects
For more information or to get support, contact:
Louis Lauter
Director of Congressional Relations
llauter@csis.org
202.775.3186
Programs on the Hill
The Congressional Forum on Islam series highlighted current trends within Islam on Capitol Hill.
Congressional Testimony
- Feb 8, 2012
James A. Lewis, director of the Technology and Public Policy Program, testified before House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, on "Cybersecurity, Threats to Communications Networks, and Private-sector Responses."
- Feb 1, 2012
Edward C. Chow, senior fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on European Affairs, on "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What’s at Stake for the U.S. and Europe?"