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EVENTS ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT INNOVATION holds a conference to discuss Evaluating, Measuring and Improving Performance Based Service Contracts for your Federal, State and Local Government Agency
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. Performance Based Service Contracting
Stan Soloway, professional Services Council
9:45 a.m. - Reducing Employee Concerns Over Privatization
11 a.m. - Implications of Performance Measurement on Contract Closeouts
1:15 p.m. - Ronne Rogin, Procurement Analyst, US Department of Treasury
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: Kellogg Conference Center/Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-651-6000
WEB ADDRESS: nigi.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Brazil-US. Business Council holds a meeting on "Free Trade."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Robert Petterson, Chairman, U.S. Section, Brazil-U.S. Business Council, Vice President, Latin American, Caterpillar, Inc.
Mário Villares, Chairman, Brazil Section, Brazil-U.S. Business Council, Vice President, FIESP
8:40 a.m.- The Challenge of Leadership: How Brazil and the United States Can Bring the FTAA Negotiations to a Successful Close:
Samuel Bodman, Deputy U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Amb. Rubens Barbosa, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States
9:40 a.m.- Impact of the FTAA: Brazilian and U.S. Corporate Perspectives
Gerry Shaheen, Group President, International, Caterpillar, Inc.
Henrique Costa Rzezinski, Vice President of External Relations, Embraer
José Armando Campos, Vice President of the Brazilian Steel Institute (IBS) and President, CST (Companhia Siderúrgica Tubarão).
11 a.m. -- Agriculture and the FTAA: Can Brazil and the United States Find Common Ground?
Amb. Allen Johnson, Chief Agriculture Negotiator, USTR
Pedro de Camargo Neto, Pedro de Camargo Neto, Secretary for Production and Trade, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply
Luiz Hafers, President, Sociedade Rural Brasileira
David Winkles, President, South Carolina Farm Bureau and Member of the American Farm Bureau Trade Advisory Committee.
Top Congressional Priorities for the FTAA
Ambassador Anthony Harrington, Partner, Stonebridge International, LLC
Rep. Phil English, (R-PA), Co-Chair, Brazil Caucus, U.S. Congress
Dep. Julio Redecker, (PPB-RS)
2 p.m.- Anti-dumping and the FTAA
Brink Lindsey, Director, Institute for Trade Policy Studies, CATO Institute
Barry Solarz, American Iron and Steel Institute
Adimar Schievelbein, AS Consultoria em Comércio Exterior S/C Ltda
Jon Jenson, President Emeritus of the Precision Metalforming Association and Chairman of the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition (CITAC)
Gilbert Kaplan, Senior Partner, Hale & Dorr
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Out of Order: Russian Citizens and the State," with Ellen Carnaghan, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Louis University.
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring author Bill O' Reilly, discussing his book "The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America."
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: JAPAN INFORMATION ACCESS holds a program on "Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform."
WHO: The speakers are:
Edward J. Lincoln, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Lael Brainard, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Deputy National Economic, Adviser to the President
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: Women's National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-822-6040
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "The Battle For Ideas In The U.S. War On Terrorism."
WHO: The speakers are:
Newt Gingrich, AEI
Michael Ledeen, AEI
Nathan Sharansky, Deputy Prime Minister Of Israel
James Woolsey, Shea and Gardner
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Law School presents a program on "The Hague Tribunal: Overcoming The Challenges and Bringing War Criminals To Justice."
WHO: The speakers are:
Nancy Paterson, former prosecutor at The International Criminal Tribunal
Stephen Saltzburg, professor of law, The George Washington University
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: Lerner Hall, 2000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Silena Davis Torres, 202-994-6588
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: REP. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, D-DC, holds a town meeting on maintaining both resident security and economic vitality in D.C. after the terrorist attack.
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: Washington Convention Center, 900 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Doxie A. McCoy, 202-225-8050
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov/norton
TIME: 5:45 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs will host a screening of "Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin," a documentary film by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati; winner of the 2001 HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize.
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-6588
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM presents Jeffrey F. Meyer, professor of religion at the University of North Carolina, examining how the nation's core convictions are embodied in the Federal City's art and architecture.
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-272-3606
WEB ADDRESS:nbm.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Edwin Ortiz y Su Orquesta La Romana a fantastic local salsa ensemble.
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features author Studs Terkel continuing his oral histories--this time focusing on the final days and end of life in "Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith."
DATE: October 29, 2001
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919.
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
