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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2002
EVENT: NEW DEMOCRATIC NETWORK holds its Spring Political Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Joe Andrew, Partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Governor Mark Warner, D-VA
10:15 a.m. - National Hispanic Politics featuring poll by Bendixen and Associates, discussing the evolving state of the Hispanic electorate
Sergio Bendixen, Bendixen and Associates
Rep. Robert Menendez, D-NJ, Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes D-TX, Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus
11:30 a.m. - Simon Rosenberg, President, NDN
Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, Introduction by U.S. Representative Adam Smith (WA-9)
12:30 p.m. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-CT
Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA
1:15 p.m. - National Political Overview featuring poll by Penn, Schoen, Berland and Associates, discussing the current national political climate
Mark Penn, Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
Mike McCurry, Chief Executive Officer, Grassroots Inc., and former White House Press Secretary
U.S. Representative Jane Harman (CA-36)
2: 15 p.m. - Candidate Panel, discussing competitive races across the nation
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, Moderator
Senate Candidate Ron Kirk, D-TX
House Candidate Henry Cuellar, D-TX
House Candidate Rahm Emanuel, D-IL
6:30 p.m. - Dinner Reception, Palm Court, Union Station, 40 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, (Closed Press)
7:15 p.m. - Dinner - A Tribute to New Democrat Incumbent Senators, Columbus Club, Union Station, 40 Massachusetts Avenue, D-DE (Closed Press)
Sen. Evan Bayh D-IN, Master of Ceremony
Sen. Blanche Lincoln D-AR, Master of Ceremony
Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-MO, Honoree
Sen. Max Cleland, D-GA, Honoree
Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, Honoree
Sen. Mary Landrieu D-LA, Honoree
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: Marvin Center, 800 21st St. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-544-9200
WEB ADDRESS:newdem.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a conference Social Security and Hispanic Americans.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Remarks--F. A. Hayek Auditorium
Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute
Juan Carlos Iturregui, Executive Director, Hispanic Business Roundtable
9:15 a.m. - Fidel Vargas, Vice President, Reliant Equity Investors, Commissioner
President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
10 a.m. - Panel 1: The Hispanic Stake in Social Security Reform
Lourdes Meluza, National Correspondent, Univision
Marta Metelko, Executive Director, Republican National Hispanic Assembly
Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
Robert Deposada, President, Latino Coalition
Fernando Torres-Gil, Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging, School of Public Policy and Social Research, UCLA
11:30 a.m. - Hispanics as Investors
Moderator--Natalie Morales, Anchor, MSNBC
Refugio Rochin, Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
Moctesuma Esparza, producer, Esparza/Katz
Javier Jimenez, Investment Executive, Wedbush Morgan Securities
Julie Stav, Author, Fund Your Future and Get Your Share
1:30 p.m. - Introduction--Bob Castro, Deputy Chief of Staff
Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr.
José Piñera, Former Minister of Labor and Social Security, Chile
Panel 3: The Great Debate:
Should Social Security be Privatized?
Armando Guzman, President, The Armando Group
John Cobin, Investment Adviser, First Montauk Security Corp.
Ian Vásquez, Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute
Eric Rodriguez, Director, Economic Mobility Project
National Council of La Raza
Marta Sotomayor, President and CEO, National Hispanic Council on Aging
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS holds its national housing conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:15 a.m. - Boston Mayor and Conference President Thomas Menino
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
Nicolas Retsinas, Director, Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies
9:15 a.m. - Jim Margo, President, Long Island Housing Partnership
Bill Novelli, CEO, American Association of Retired Persons
Dr. Richard Levinson, Assoc. Dir., American Public Health Association
10:15 a.m. - Rick Lazio, CEO, Financial Services Forum
10:45 a.m. - John Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Housing, HUD
Conrad Egan, Executive Director, Millenial Housing Commission
Sheila Crowley, President, National Low-Income Housing Coalition
11:45 p.m. - Press availability
12:15 p.m. - Sen. Jack Reed, Chair, Senate Housing and Transportation Subcommittee
Henry Cisneros, President, American City Vista, former HUD Secretary
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: Embassy Row Hotel, 2100 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-293-7330
WEB ADDRESS: usmayors.org/uscm.home.asp
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE hosts the World Economic Forum's USA Meeting 2002.
AGENDA: Highlighted speakers:
Robert Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative
Pascal Lamy, Commissioner, Trade, European Commission (by videoconference)
Thomas J. Ridge, Director of the U.S. Office of Homeland Security
Paul D. Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Tom DeLay (R-TX), House Majority Whip
Javier Solana Madariaga, E.U. High Representative for the Common Foreign
and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council
Kenneth W. Dam, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Charles James, U.S. Assistant Attorney General
Joel I. Klein, Chairman and CEO, Bertelsmann
James Copeland, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Rep. Michael Oxley (R-OH), Chairman House Financial Services Committee
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a program featuring Ambassador from Brazil Clodoaldo Hugueney and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier discussing their perspectives on market access negotiations in the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the World Trade Organization negotiations and their linkage to the FTAA, and Trade Promotion Authority legislation.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: University Club, 1135 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE Program Shark Attack News Conference & Science Briefing. The public perception of the risk of shark bites and attacks was heightened through intensive news media coverage following last summer's shark attack fatalities. The press briefing will aim to put the risk of shark attacks in perspective
WHO: The speakers are:
George Burgess, Director, International Shark Attack File, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Robert E. Hueter, Director Center for Shark Research, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL
Rebecca Lent, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, and former Chief of Highly Migratory Species Management Division, NOAA Fisheries, Silver Spring, MD.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7095,
WEB ADDRESS: seagrantnews.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: US COUNCIL FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH holds a news conference and ride-and-drive demonstration highlighting diesel-powered vehicles.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: Rayburn Foyer Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 0202-841-1963
WEB ADDRESS: uscar.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PEW FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE holds a program on "Reconciling Obligations: Accommodating Religious Practice on the Job."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. - History of Relevant Law, Legislation and Enforcement Efforts
Roberto Corrada, University of Denver Law School
Richard Foltin, American Jewish Committee
David Frank, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
David Lachmann, Minority Staff, Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives
Avi Schick, Office of the New York State Attorney General
11 a.m. - Religion in the Private Workplace: Perspectives of Business, Labor and Religious Observants
Sharifa Alkhateeb, North American Council for Muslim Women
Nathan Diament, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Stuart J. Lark, Christian Legal Society
Lawrence Lorber, Proskauer Rose LLP
Manjit Singh, Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Taskforce (SMART)
Mitch Tyner, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Representative of AFL-CIO
12:30 p.m. -- Lunch and Address: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Accommodation in the Workplace
Address: Nathan Lewin, Attorney, Lewin & Lewin
Discussion: moderated by Melissa Rogers, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202/955-5075
WEB ADDRESS:pewforum.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HEARING HEALTH AND VIASYS HEALTHCARE hold a news conference to discuss the importance of newborn hearing screening. Considering that hearing loss is our nation's number one birth defect and a reliable hearing test costs as little as $20, it is unbelievable that all infants are not automatically screened at birth,
WHO: The speakers are:
Kassie & Jim DePaiva, One Life to Live actors and parents of a child with hearing loss
Louis Z. Cooper, M.D., President of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Karl White, Ph.D., Director of National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management
Elizabeth E. Thorp, Director of the National Campaign for Hearing Health
Rep. Jim Walsh, R-NY, Congressional Hearing Health Caucus Co-Chair
Rep. Jim Ryun, R-KS, Congressional Hearing Health Caucus Co-Chair
Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-CT
Elvir Causevic, D.Sc., and Mike Scholin, MS, CCC-A, GSI Infant Hearing Screening Demo
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 485 Russell Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-289-5850
WEB ADDRESS: nchh.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: US INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds a issues briefing on "Afghanistan: A Regional Perspective."
WHO: The speakers are:
William Milam, Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Joseph Presel, Former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Richard Kauzlarich, Director, Special Initiative on the Muslim World, U.S. Institute of Peace
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: United States Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-429-3832
WEB ADDRESS:usip.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: COALITION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION holds a news conference to discuss education disaster facing over 75,000 financial aid applicants who have lost loans and grants for college due to drug convictions.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA
Julie Fernandes, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Jennifer Collier, National Policy For the Legal Action Center
Larry Zaglaniczny, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: House Triangle, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-8997
WEB ADDRESS: raiseyourvoice.com
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled on "Next Steps for the President's Faith-Based Initiative."
WHO: The speakers are:
Jim Towey, Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Joe Loconte, William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents director Michael Kahn, celebrating 15 years at the Folger Theater.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION presents "What Critics Are Saying about Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising: And Why They Are Wrong."
WHO: The speakers are:
Art Linkletter, Honorary Chairman, United Seniors Association, "Who's Afraid of Informed Seniors?"
John Calfee, Ph.D., Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, "What Does DTC Advertising Do?"
Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Institute for Policy Innovation, "Does DTC Advertising Increase the Cost of Drugs?"
Tom Giovanetti, President, Institute for Policy Innovation
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: Room HC 5, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 888-557-4474
WEB ADDRESS: ipi.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: REFUGEE COUNCIL USA holds a news conference releasing a six-month status report on refugee arrivals and discusses next steps mark the six-month anniversary of the President's signing of the Presidential Determination to admit 70,000 refugees by October 1, 2002. The Council will release a status report on the state of the US refugee resettlement program six months after the signing of the Determination.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: U.S. Capitol, Room SC4, Washington, D.C
CONTACT: 202/541-5402
WEB ADDRESS: ncccusa.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: U.S. PHARMACOPEIA holds a telephone news conference releasing its MedMARxSM 2000 Report. The report is the most comprehensive and current compilation of medication error data submitted by hospitals and health systems nationwide.
DATE: May 21, 2002
CONTACT: Sherrie Borden, 301-816-8268.
WEB ADDRESS: usp.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference "New Developments in Electric Market Restructuring."
AGENDA: Highlights:
1 p.m. - Welcoming Remarks
1:15 p.m. - Overview of Market Restructuring: Issues and Direction
1:30 p.m. - Keynote address by William Hogan, Harvard University
2:15 p.m. - Wholesale Markets and RTO Formation
4 p.m. - Role of Demand Response in Competitive Power Markets
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: MOBALIZE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE holds a rally then race to the World Bank to draw attention to the links between poverty in the U.S. and abroad.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-288-2283
WEB ADDRESS: globalizethis.org
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Litigating for Gender Equality."
WHO: The speakers are:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court
Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, National Women's Law Center
Michael Maurer, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch entitled "Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights," with Philippa Strum, Director, Division of United States Studies and author, Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a book launch for "Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground," featuring author Julia E. Sweig, senior fellow and deputy director of Latin American Studies."
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON Capital Science lectures presents Maxine F. Singer, president, Carnegie Institution of Washington discussing "NOVA's "Cracking the Code of Life" discussing Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1530 P Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: carnegieinstitution.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents author Kevin Phillips discussing and signing copies of Wealth And Democracy: The Dangerous Politics of American Prosperity which is a liberal analysis written by a conservative. He demonstrates that since he wrote The Politics of Rich and Poor eleven years ago, the global upheaval in finance and technology has contributed to a much greater concentration of wealth, while people with middle and lower incomes have lost their foothold, in comparison.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER AND KOREA SOCIETY present Hannuri Arts Group performing traditional Korean Music and Dance.
DATE: May 21, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
