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EVENTS ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT Mid-year policy forum that focuses on updating membership on hot topics and keys issues being debated in Congress and across the nation.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m.- Perspectives from the Administration
Dr. Wade F. Horn, Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
10 a.m. - The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) authorized the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant through September 30, 2002. Congress
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-626-5266
WEB ADDRESS: ncsea.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS holds its annual winter meeting. This year's session will give the highest priority to the critical issues impacting our nations in the remaining months of the 107th Congress, while also allowing Tribes more time to visit members of Congress.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. -- News conference
Effective Lobbying Workshop Ashland North
Gerry Sikorski, Attorney at Law, Holland & Knight
Sarah Hicks, NCAI Welfare Reform Director
Aura Kanegis, NCAI Deputy Director of Governmental Affairs
Rebecca Donovan Johnston, R.D. Johnston Government Affairs
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: Wyndham Hotel, 1400 M Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-466-7767
WEB ADDRESS: ncai.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION holds its 2002 winter meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10:45 a.m. -- News conference
4 p.m. -- Media briefing following the governor's meeting with President George Bush
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: JW Marriott, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-5344
WEB ADDRESS:nga.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program featuring Claude Allen, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, will discuss the HHS role in protecting public health in the post September 11 security environment.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: THE NATIONAL CENTER ON ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY holds a news conference releasing Teen Tipplers: America's Underage Drinking Epidemic. The report documents the pathways to use and abuse of alcohol by children and teens and offers solutions to the problem.
WHO: The speaker is Joseph A. Califano Jr., CASA president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ellen Ross 212/841-5260;
WEB ADDRESS: casacolumbia.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee holds its press briefing and luncheon.
WHO: The speakers are:
George G. Kaufman, Cochair, Loyola University Chicago
Robert E. Litan, Cochair, Brookings Institution
George J. Benston, Emory University
Charles W. Calomiris, AEI and Columbia University
Franklin R. Edwards, Columbia University
Scott E. Harrington, University of South Carolina
Richard J. Herring, University of Pennsylvania
Paul M. Horvitz, University of Houston
Hal S. Scott, Harvard Law School
Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford University
Peter J. Wallison, AEI
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Fuel Economy Standards: Do They Work? Do They Kill?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert W. Crandall Brookings Institution
Barry Felrice Daimler Chrysler
Sam Kazman Competitive Enterprise Institute
W. David Montgomery, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Charli Coon, Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: EAST WEST CENTER AND POPULATION RESOURCE CENTER holds a program on Asia: New Perspectives on Population.
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Mason, PhD., Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii
Tim Brown, Senior Fellow, East-West Center
Robert Retherford, PhD., Senior Fellow, East-West Center, Coordinator, Population and Health Studies, University of Hawaii
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-467-5030
WEB ADDRESS:prcdc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Homeless Children in Russia: Legal Remedies or Rhetoric? with Sally Stoecker, Research Professor and Project Director, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American University.
DATE: February 25, 2002
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: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Veils of Ignorance: Islam, Development and the West" with Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali, a World Bank official.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Report of Amnesty International's Visit to Post-September 11 INS Detainees" with Jillian Kong-Sivert, acting director of Amnesty International USA's Refugee Program.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:45 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SMOKELESS STATES NATIONAL TOBACCO POLICY INITIATIVE holds a news conference to discuss the four states launching initiatives increasing the cigarette excise tax in their state, a proven tool for reducing youth smoking and generating state revenue. Following in the footsteps of several states that have recently increased excise taxes,
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 312-944-7398
WEB ADDRESS:ama-assn.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and The Department of Arabic Language, Literature, and Linguistics presents activist and author Nasrine Gross discussing Afghani women's rights activist discusses her recent participation in a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on Immigrants and Race in Britain and the U.S.: How Has September 11 Changed the Equation?
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Geddes, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool, and author of Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe? and Labour's Second Landslide: The 2001 General Election.
Muzaffar Chishti, Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, and director of a documentation project in collaboration with NYU and Cornell Law School
Joanne van Selm, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Liking US narcotics consumption to the spread of worldwide terrorism with Director of the White House office Of National Drug Control Policy John Walters.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER AND GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY hold a program on "State-Sponsored Terrorism, Fashioning New Responses."
WHO: The speakers are:
Allan Gerson, Co-Director, Institute for Peace-building and Development, The George Washington University, and co-author of The Price of Terror: Lessons from Lockerbie for a World on the Brink
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President and Professor of Public Administration, The George Washington University;
Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, The George Washington University, and Wilson Center Senior Scholar.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY holds a program on NATO, The EU And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Some European Reflections on the Dynamics of Euro-American Relations, and their Future Prospects, after September 11th" featuring Professor Gwyn Prins - London School of Economics
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents the collaboration of piano duo Shai Wosner and Saleem Aboud-Ashkar, an Israeli from Tel-Aviv and a Palestinian from Nazareth, is a musical exchange.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Barbara Garson discussing and signing copies of Money Makes The World Go Around. She gives us examples of the global banking system's real-world implications. Ranging from a Chase Bank vice-president in New York to Thai laborers at a Singapore oil refinery.
DATE: February 25, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
