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The Student Congress final session will be about the following topics:

•  Health Care
• School Vouchers
• Freedom of Speech in Iran

• Cuban Embargo

The round will begin at 10:00 AM.  Parliamentarian is Eva Lam; scorers will be Brittany Walker (Columbia) and Brittany Kielhurn (Cary Academy).  The room is Hamilton 304.

The clearing students:

• Laurden Malotra-Gaudet    Berkeley Carroll
• Edwin Yung, Stuyvesant
• Emma Forth, Walt Whitman
• Nick D’Angelo, Fordham Prep
• Gregory Sweetman, Delbarton
• Peter Della Rocca, Loyola
• Vincent Sayseng, Iona Prep
• Austin Joseph, Iona Prep
• James Abys-Smith, Iona
• Chloe Gilroy, Pleasantville
• Jeremy Majerovitz, Stuyvesant
• Tousif Ahsan, Stuyvesant
• Charlie Seidell, John Jay
• Hunter Dougherty, Delbarton
• Diarra Edwards, Berkeley Carroll
• Joseph Paolicelli, Fordham Prep

Leon Panetta, a former Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton, was nominated Director of the CIA by President Obama.  He has no direct experience in the intelligence establishment, though he was part of the CIA briefings President Clinton received on a daily basis.

You are the Senate Intelligence Committee, tasked with passing on a recommendation to the full Senate on whether or not to confirm Mr Panetta as Director of CIA.