FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2001 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 TWO FORMER CONGRESSMEN TO DISCUSS CONGRESS IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD Former Congressmen Edward L. Winn Jr. and Andy Jacobs Jr. will give a joint lecture at Drake University on "Understanding Congress: In Good Times and Bad" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 25th Street and University Avenue. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of Congress to Campus, a program that brings members of Congress to colleges and universities across the nation. This is the first time that Drake has participated in the program. While at Drake, Winn and Jacobs will have lunch with members of Drake Democrats and Drake Republicans at 12:30 p.m. in the Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall. They also will participate in a forum for students from 2 to 3:15 p.m. in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center. In addition, they will meet with the Student Senate from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Olmsted Center. Winn, a Republican from Kansas City, Kan., was first elected to Congress in 1966 and served from 1967 until 1985. He was a ranking Republican on the European and Middle East subcommittee and a strong supporter of the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Development. Winn was the original sponsor of the Bill for the Tallgrass Prairie National Park in Kansas. He received the Treasury Department "Bulldog Award" for fiscal responsibility during all of his 18 years of service. Jacobs, a Democrat from Indianapolis, was first elected to Congress in 1964 and served from 1965 until 1973. He was re-elected in 1975 and served until 1997. Jacobs helped write the historic 1965 Voting Rights Act and led a House debate that helped get the United States out of Vietnam. Jacobs was praised as one of the three most frugal members of Congress and credited with the passage of revolutionary cost-saving prospective payment reform in Medicare. He also was the chief House sponsor of the historic change of the Social Security Administration into an independent agency. Congress to Campus is sponsored by the Stennis Center for Public Service and the United States Association of Former Members of Congress.