E-mail a friendOctober 12, 2007
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen discusses efforts in Congress to overturn President Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill. Author Deepak Chopra comments on sense of self and the meaning of success.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen
Rep. Chris Van Hollen
Elected to Congress only five years ago, Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen is in charge of funding Democratic House candidates as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The son of a Foreign Service officer, Van Hollen was born in Pakistan. He previously served 12 years in the Maryland General Assembly and held a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff position. Van Hollen has a masters degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Time magazine credited Deepak Chopra as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." After building a successful endocrinology practice in Boston in the ‘80's, he went on to become Chairman and co-founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. Dr. Chopra is the author of over 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles and more than 50 books. His latest is Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment. He also recently partnered with the conscious-consumer Web community, Care2, to help mobilize action around specific causes.