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EVENTS ON MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2003
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: KAISER COMMISSION ON MEDICAID AND THE UNINSURED holds a news conference to discuss updated information on the states' fiscal crisis and its impact on health coverage. With renewed federal proposals to assist states financially this year, the Commission is releasing three new reports as federal and state policymakers consider action.
WHO: The speakers are:
Medicaid Spending Growth: A 50 State Update for FY 2003
Vern Smith, Ph.D., Principal, Health Management Associates, The State Fiscal Crisis and Medicaid: Will Health Programs Be Major Budget Targets?
John Holahan, Ph.D., Director of Health Policy, The Urban Institute
Velvet Miller, Ph.D., former Deputy Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Human Services and Founder, My Parents Concierge
Gary Perkins, CHE, President and CEO, Children's Hospital,
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-347-5270
WEB ADDRESS:kff.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum for "Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ross Sandler, New York Law School
David Schoenbrod, New York Law School
Michael S. Greve, AEI
Michael A. Rebell, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc.
Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: BY THE PEOPLE holds a news conference to announce the results of Deliberative Opinion Poll® from America in the World National Issues Convention in Philadelphia.
AGENDA: More than 325 Americans, a sample selected to closely mirror the eligible U.S. voting population, will convene in Philadelphia January 10-12 to discuss America's place in the world.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dan Werner, president, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
Dr. James Fishkin, creator, Deliberative Opinion Poll® and director of the Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas
Dr. Henry Brady, director of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Cara Trites, 202-354-8213 or Geneva Ferrando, 202-354-8230.
WEB ADDRESS: by-the-people.org or pbs.org/newshour/btp
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Harnessing Information Technology to Improve Homeland Security."
WHO: The speakers are:
James S. Gilmore, Former Virginia Governor;
Lee Holcomb, Director of Info structure, Office of Homeland Security
Tom Richey, Director of Homeland Security, Microsoft Corporation
Tom Gann, Vice President and General Manager, Siebel Systems, Inc.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: RESPONSIBLE WEALTH holds a news conference critiquing Congressional plans to make the repeal of the federal estate tax permanent and announce a new book entitled Wealth and Our Commonwealth:
Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bill Gates, Sr., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND
Chuck Collins, Responsible Wealth
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 617-423-2148
WEB ADDRESS: faireconomy.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION holds a program on Tax Credits For Working Families: New Research and New Opportunities. A federal tax credit is helping to lift lower-income workers and their children out of poverty, but too much of the benefit is going into the pockets of commercial tax preparers, according to a major study.
WHO: The speakers are:
Douglas W. Nelson, president, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Alan Berube, senior research analyst, The Brookings Institution's Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy
Mayor John DeStefano, New Haven, Connecticut; president, the National League of Cities
Mayor Bill LaFortune, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Margaret Henningsen, vice president, Legacy Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Susan Gilbert, 301-656-0348
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on "Free Trade with Chile: Understanding What's at Stake."
WHO: The speakers are:
Regina Vargo, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas
Hernán Büchi, Former Minister of Finance, Chile.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism with Steven Marks, Professor, Department of History, Clemson University.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Paul Volcker Chairman of the National Commission on Public Service.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum for "The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush." With David Frum, AEI.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents The State of Society," a forum that will explore trends and changes in American society since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and other topics including welfare reform and changes in the political behavior of young adults.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bill Galston, director, Institute of Philosophy, University of Maryland
Amitai Etzioni, University Professor, The George Washington University
Isabel Sawhill, senior fellow, Brookings Institute and president of the board of directors, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Douglas Besharov, professor, University of Maryland, and senior scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Kristin Moore, president and senior scholar, Child Trends
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 994-8937
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds program entitled "Crises on the Korean Peninsula."
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Einhorn, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics.
William Drennan, Deputy Director of Research and Studies, U.S. Institute of Peace.
Paul Stares, Director of Research and Studies, U.S. Institute of Peace.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-429-3824
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Education Conference Series: "The Future of For-profit Schooling: What Do Edison Schools Reveal about the Politics of School Reform?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas Toch, National Center on Education and the Economy
Mary Anne Schmitt, New American Schools
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "An Italian Perspective on the Evolution of the European Union," with Ambassador Antonio Puri Purini, Diplomatic Advisor to the President of Italy.
DATE: January 13, 2003
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: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Bradley Lecture Series presents "Cuba's Future -- And Ours" featuring Mark Falcoff, AEI.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents 2001 Wammie winners Rhodes Tavern Troubadours performing their signature foot-stompin', power-popping musical style in tribute to the Washington Area Music Awards.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB presents "PR PROS & Reporters: Friends, Enemies or a Symbiotic Relationship?" a frank and edgy dialogue between two sides of the news business...
WHO: The speakers are:
Kevin Merida, Washington Post
Janet Terry, Ch.9/WUSA
Andrew Alexander, Cox Newspapers
Diane Powers, National Conference for Community and Justice
Phil Singer, Press Secretary, Sen. Charles Schumer
Audrey Hoffer, AEH, Inc.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Michael Rowe, a professor of sociology at Yale, talking about this deeply felt memoir of his son, The Book Of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine. Jesse died at the age of 19 after a lifetime of high-tech medical interventions and two liver transplants.
DATE: January 13, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
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