What is the "Miller Center for Public Affairs" and Why Should We Care?

[KoKo]

The Miller Center’s National Commissions

Federal Election Reform; The Separation of Powers; The Selection of Federal Judges;
Choosing and Using Vice Presidents; The Presidency and Science Advising; Presidential Disability and the 25th Amendment;
Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy; The Presidential Nominating Process ; Presidential Press Conferences;

(NOTE: All of these Commissions seem to have influenced Congress and their recommendations become Guidance or LAW including the HAVA ACT and the COMMISSION ON VP POWERS)

http://millercenter.virginia.edu/policy/commissions/priorcommissions#vicepresidents


(The above is a list of the "National Commissions" this center has sponsored)


Here is their MISSION STATEMENT:



About the Miller Center

Gerald L. Baliles, former governor of Virginia and former chairman of the board of PBS, became the Director of the Miller Center in April 2006.
Mission

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, following Jefferson’s vision of the University’s public service mission, is a leading public policy institution that serves as a national meeting place where engaged citizens, scholars, students, media representatives and government officials gather in a spirit of nonpartisan consensus to research, reflect and report on issues of national importance to the governance of the United States, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.

Here's what George HW Bush Said about the Miller Center from it's Web Page:

http://millercenter.virginia.edu/dev/images/layout/template/quotation.php?text=The%20Miller%20Center%20is%20the%20place%20that%20gets%20history%20and%20preserves%20it%20for%20future%20generations...a%20place%20that%20treats%20people%20with%20honor%20and%20handles%20issues%20with%20fairness.&source=President%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush

Here is a List of their GOVERNING COUNCIL:

http://millercenter.virginia.edu/about/governance



Here is a List of their FOUNDATION BOARD:

http://millercenter.virginia.edu/foundation/board

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WHAT'S THIS POST ALL ABOUT?


Baker, Christopher to head war power panel

Wed Feb 28, 12:50 PM ET

Former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher will head a private, bipartisan panel to study a lingering and gnawing national question: Who does the Constitution say has the power to begin, conduct and end wars.

The dispute over the authority to wage war has historically divided presidents, members of Congress and scholars. Through the years, the White House gradually has assumed increased control of U.S. war-making, and it has arisen anew amid the shrill debate in the new Democratic-controlled Congress over President Bush's war buildup in Iraq.

Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., headed the Iraq Study Group that made recommendations last December to the Bush administration on Iraq war policy.

That panel, which was authorized by Congress, achieved wide notice as Bush was considering how to reshape the U.S. role in Iraq, and its findings have been embraced by many members of both parties. Bush ended up deciding to send extra troops to the war zone — essentially ignoring its recommendation that the U.S. remove its combat troops by early next year.

The war powers study is sponsored by the private Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Among its 12 members are Baker, who served under the first President Bush; Christopher, who was in the Clinton administration; Hamilton; former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who was also on the Iraq Study Group; and Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_go_ot/war_powers&printer=1;_ylt=ApJ_.KbQsZNywqUkZbhkG_N2wPIE

[KoKo]

1. This group might be as important as American Enterprise Institute and Heritage..

just saying......

[KoKo]

2. This post has died....but hope that those who have TIME over the Weekend

will look at this and hit the links and do YOUR OWN ANALYSIS. I didn't want to be Partisan in posting this and hoped folks would check it out.

We all focus on the American Enterprise Institute....but the MILLER INSTITUTE requires more LOOKS because it might be FEEDING AIE/HERITAGE and the rest.

That's why I posted....:shrug: