<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/westmont-news/congressmen-examine-bipartisanship.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>09/05/2016</pubDate><title>Congressmen Examine Bipartisanship</title><excerpt>Congressman Frank Wolf, a Republican who represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives for 34 years, and Ambassador Tony P. Hall, a Democrat who represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 20 years and served as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.’s Agencies for Food and Agriculture, discuss the importance of Christians standing up for religious freedom and human rights around the world on Thursday, Sept. 15, at noon in Winter Hall’s Darling Foundation Lecture Hall (Room 210) at Westmont. The Political Science Lecture, “Friendship Across the Aisle: Bipartisanship in Pursuit of Justice, Human Rights and Religious Freedom,” is co-sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact organizer Jesse Covington, associate professor of political science, at (805) 565-6784.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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