{"id":28774,"date":"2016-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/discussion-with-congresswoman-jan-schakowsky\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T22:00:00","slug":"discussion-with-congresswoman-jan-schakowsky","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/discussion-with-congresswoman-jan-schakowsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have the pleasure of inviting you to a<strong>\u00a0discussion with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHEN: September 16, 2016 at 5pm<br \/>\nWHERE: the V\u00e1clav Havel Library (Ostrovn\u00ed 129\/13, 110 00 Praha 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.cz\/maps\/place\/Knihovna+V%C3%A1clava+Havla\/@50.0807645,14.4151019,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x470b94f1c34d1fbf:0xebad7028c46f5f4c!8m2!3d50.0807611!4d14.4172906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/schakowsky.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Schakowsky<\/a><\/strong> was elected to represent Illinois\u2019 9th Congressional District in 1998. Now in her ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, she serves in the House Democratic leadership as a Chief Deputy Whip. Among her long-term policy priorities are quality health care, social security, women\u2019s issues, and immigration reform. She is also active in the fields of national security and foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Jan is a strong leader from Illinois, a state that has a significant number of Czech-American constituents; it is also the home state of President Obama. Jan Schakowsky has a strong interest in the Czech Republic, as well as in Central Europe as a whole. She serves as co-chair of the Czech Caucus in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>You will have the opportunity to discuss a number of current issues with the Congresswoman, including the recent events in Turkey, Brexit and the future of the EU, the refugee crisis, and energy and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will be chaired by the Vice-President of Aspen Institute Prague Michael \u017dantovsk\u00fd, will be held in English and under the\u00a0Chatham House Rule.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organized in cooperation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaclavhavel-library.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">V\u00e1clav Havel Library<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afocr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Friends of the Czech Republic<\/a> (AFoCR).<\/p>\n<p>Share our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/332569943760610\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook event<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unique opportunity for a discussion with a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15123,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[593],"class_list":["post-28774","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-tag-transatlanticke-eu-aktivity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}