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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a conference on School Choice and Special Ed: Extending Choice and Opportunity to Children with Disabilities.
9 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks
Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute
9:15 a.m. - Keynote Address--"Challenges in Special Education"
Robert H. Pasternack, Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, U. S. Department of Education
9:45 a.m. - Panel 1
Problems in Special Education
Charles Hokanson, Staff Attorney, Committee on Education and the Workforce
Rose-Marie Audette, Attorney, Hogan & Hartson
Wade F. Horn, Assistant Secretary, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
Kaleem Caire, Project Director, American Education Reform Foundation
Jay Greene, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
11:30 a.m. - Panel 2
IDEA: Why School Choice Is Important to Reform
Christina Culver, Vice President for Public Affairs, Children First America
Steve Bartlett, Commissioner, President's Commission on Special Education
Lewis M. Andrews, Executive Director, Yankee Institute
Patrick Heffernan, President, Florida CHILD
Marie Gryphon, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
1:30 p.m. - Luncheon Address--"School Choice and IDEA Reform in 2003"
Sen. Larry Craig, R-ID
2:15 p.m. - Panel 3
State-Level Reform: The Florida Experience
Krista Kafer, Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation
Diane McCain, Director of Public Affairs and Advocacy, Florida Department of Education
David Salisbury, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute
Daniel Woodring, General Counsel, Florida Department of Education
Patricia Hardman, Director, Dyslexia Research Institute
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS will host its biennial Manufacturers' Week in Washington: 72 Hours to Educate and Celebrate.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. -- Media breakfast featuring Rep. Joe Barton, Chairman of the Energy and Clean Air Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Darren McKinney, 202-637-3093
WEB ADDRESS: nam.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS holds its Public Policy Meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Medicare Reform And Prescription Drugs
Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) Majority Leader, United States Senate
9:15 a.m. - State Budget Crisis And Impact On Health Care
Kevin Concannon, Commissioner, Maine Department of Human Services
10:15 a.m. - Challenges Facing Health Care Systems Around The World
Willis Goldbeck, Chair, Institute for Alternative Futures
11:15 a.m. - Homeownership & Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices
Franklin D. Raines, CEO, Fannie Mae
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Hotel Monaco, 700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Steve Hahn Or Nancy Thompson, 202-434-2560
WEB ADDRESS: aarp.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG COALITION holds its National Leadership Forum XIII.
AGENDA: Highlights:
5:30 pm. -- Congressional Reception
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-423-9630
WEB ADDRESS: cadca.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AIR TRANSPORT WORLD, IN CONJUNCTION WITH GLOBAL AVIATION ASSOCIATES, LTD., will host third Annual Managing Technology and Information for Profit.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Welcome Remarks - Air Transport World
8:10 a.m. Program Introduction - Global Aviation Associates, Ltd.
8:15 a.m. Overview of Travel Trends on the Internet - Henry Harteveldt, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
8:40 a.m. Panel I - Managing the IT Budget
12:15 p.m. Luncheon Speaker - James F. Parker, Vice Chairman & CEO, Southwest Airlines
10:15 a.m. - Panel II - Customer Care and Emerging Technology
2:15 p.m. - Panel III - Product Positioning in Travel & Transportation
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-0212
WEB ADDRESS: ga2online.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE hold a program on THE OTHER PATH: The Economic Answer to Terrorism."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Introduction, Senior Vice President Willard A. Workman,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Donald L. Evans, Secretary U.S. Department of Commerce
Madeleine Albright, Chairman of the National Democratic Institute
9:45 a.m. - The Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) and its successful strategy to discredit the
Shining Path in Peru.
Finding out how market societies are created - The importance of property rights to
initiate the rule of law - Building constituencies and consensus - Changing laws -
Organizing fieldwork - Managing reform.
Hernando de Soto, President of ILD
Francis Fukuyama, Dean of Faculty, John Hopkins University.
10:05 a.m. - Economic Inclusion: Some results
John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise
David de Ferranti, Vice President for Latin America, World Bank
Henri Guillen, Commission for the Formalization of Informal Property, COFOPRI, Peru
Adrián Revilla, Director, Banco del Trabajo, the most important bank for Peruvian small
business
John Sanbrailo, Executive Director, Pan American Development Foundation and former
USAID Mission Director in Peru.
10:30 a.m. - Social and Political Inclusion: Some results
Hernando de Soto, President of ILD
José Ugaz, Special State Attorney for Prosecuting Fujimori and Montesinos
Jaime Salinas Sedó, Peruvian Army General formerly responsible for the planning and
implementation of anti subversive activities.
Matthew Bishop, Editor of The Economist
Sally Bowen, Financial Times of London and Reuters
11:10 a.m. - Beneficiaries: Some personal accounts
Hernán Chang, former President of the Peru Drivers Federation
Hugo Huillca, General coordinator of the self-defense militias of Ayacucho which
defeated the Shining Path in central Peru.
Venancio Andrade President of the Association of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs of
Villa El Salvador.
Guido Lombardi, Peruvian TV anchorman and journalist-
11:45 a.m. - Some International Results
USA -- Brian Atwood¸ former Administrator, USAID El Salvador
Francisco Flores, President of El Salvador
Alfredo Cristiani, former President of El Salvador
Francisco Bertrand, former Minister of Interior Egypt
Medhat Hassanein, Minister of Finance of Egypt
Ahmed Galal, Director of the Egyptian Center of Economic Studies
Hisham Fahmy, Executive Director of AmCham Egypt
Afghanistan -- Haron Amin, Chargé de Affaires, Embassy of Afghanistan
Alan Larson, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, US Department of State.
Franklin D. Raines, Chairman, Fannie Mae
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 8:45 a.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL BUSINESS DIALOGUE Holds a colloquium to discuss The Byrd Amendment, What's Next?
AGENDA: On January 16, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization ruled that the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000, The Byrd Amendment, is inconsistent with U.S. obligations in the World Trade Organization
WHO: The speakers are:
Lewis Leibowitz, Hogan and Hartson
Paul Bailey, Canadian Embassy
Kathleen Hatfield, Office of Senator Byrd
Terence Stewart, Stewart & Stewart
Petros Sourmelis, EU Delegation (Washington)
Greg Mastel, Senate Finance Committee
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Capital Hilton Hotel, 1001 16th Street (16th and K Streets), Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-43-5074
WEB ADDRESS: gbdinc.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference on The Best of Both Worlds Tax, Trade, and Cowboy Capitalism in the United States and Europe.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. -Welcoming Remarks: Christopher DeMuth, AEI
Bill Thomas, R-CA, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
9:30 a.m. - Panel I: Tax Competition in Europe-A Lesson for America
Eckhard Janeba, University Colorado
Chris R. Edwards, Cato Institute
Adam Lerrick, Carnegie Mellon University
Kevin Hassett, AEI
10:40 a.m. - Panel II: Opportunities in the New Europe: Does Europe Need a Dose of Cowboy Capitalism?
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, former Prime Minister of Poland
Robert D. Atkinson, vice president, Progressive Policy Institute
Alfred Berkeley, Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
Hans H.J. Labohm, Netherlands Institute for International Relations Clingendael
James Glassman, AEI
11:50 a.m. - Panel III: U.S. and E.U.-Leaders or Laggards in Establishing Global Free Trade?
Patrick A. Messerlin, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris & director of the Groupe d'Economie Mondiale de Sciences Politiques (GEM)
Ellen Frost, Institute for International Economics
Hugo Paemen, former head of the EU delegation in Washington
Claude Barfield, AEI
1 p.m. - Max Baucus, D-MT, ranking member, Senate Finance Committee
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PEW INITIATIVE ON FOOD AND BIOTECHNOLOGY will host a policy dialogue to engage American thought leaders on the potential U.S. suit in the World Trade Organization against Europe over genetically modified crops.
WHO: The speakers are:
Julia A. Moore, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Christopher Padilla, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison
Clyde Prestowitz, president and founder of the Economic Strategy Institute and counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration
Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation
Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent for PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and author, The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-347-9044 ext. 246
WEB ADDRESS: pewagbiotech.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CITIES FOR PEACE holds a news conference followed by a walk to the White House.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-246-5303
WEB ADDRESS: citiesforpeace.org
TIME: 10:15 a.m.
EVENT: REP. HEALTHER WILSON R-NM, holds a news conference to release a report on U.S. Nuclear weapons policy.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: H-133 U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-6317
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov/Wilson
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITZEN holds a news conference releasing a new report showing how seniors will be hurt by a Bush administration proposal that would force them to join HMOs and PPOs to receive prescription drug coverage. The Public Citizen report examines government and private sector research finding that health care coverage now offered to more than 4 million Medicare beneficiaries by private insurers is unreliable, inefficient and confusing.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), leader of the Senate Prescription Drug Task Force
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)
Frank Clemente, director, Public Citizen's Congress Watch
Barbara B. Kennelly, president, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
Marilyn Moon, senior fellow, Urban Institute and former Medicare trustee
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Room 124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ben Peck, 202-454-5155; Dennis Jaffe, 202-454-5136
WEB ADDRESS: citizen.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: COALTION FOR ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH holds a news conference to release a poll on parental attitudes on comprehensive vs. abstinence-centered sex education.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Dave Weldon, R-FL
Dr. Wade Horn assistant secretary for children and Families
Dr. bill Maier, Focus on Family
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 2225 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-393-2100
WEB ADDRESS: whatparentsthink.com
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UNIVERSITIES AND LAND-GRANT COLLEGES, THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (UN), AND ACDI/VOCA hold a forum on the link between int'l development assistance, trade and food security.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12 noon - Welcoming Comments
David O. Hansen, President, AIARD
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-OH, Ranking Democratic Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, House Appropriations Committee
12:20 p.m. - Grassroots Support for Alleviating Hunger
J.B. Roberts, Chairman, Rotary International
12:30 p.m. - Revitalizing USAID's Agricultural Development Agenda: A Win-Win Proposition
Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
12:45 p.m. - Trade, Development and Food Security: A Win-Win Agenda for the Global Economy
Gary C. Martin, President and CEO, North American Export Grain Association
1 p.m. - The USDA and World Food Security: Building a Win-Win Agenda for Today's World
Dr. Rodney Brown, Deputy Under Secretary, REE, U.S. Department of Agriculture
1:15 p.m. - Summary, Questions and the Way Forward
David O. Hansen, President, AIARD
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Caucus Room, Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Sue Schram, 202-879-0600
WEB ADDRESS: acdivoca.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss the latest in the policy debate over reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families program, which the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on this Thursday, February 13.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sharon Parrott, Director, Welfare Reform and Income Support Division, CBPP
David Ellwood, Prof., Political Economy
Harvard and former Assistant Secretary of HHS (Wed. only)
Mark Greenberg, Director of Policy, Center for Law and Social Policy (Thurs. only)
Gordon Berlin, Senior Vice President, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. (Thurs. only)
DATE: February 13, 2003
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS: cbpp.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a luncheon program on Chechnya: Is Peace Possible featuring Sergey Kovalev an outspoken critic of the Russian military action in Chechnya and one of Russia's leading advocates of human rights. He has served as chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Russian Supreme Council and of the Presidential Human Rights Commission.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CIRCLE FOR INFORMATION AND RESEARCH ON CIVIC LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT holds a luncheon program to release and discuss a comprehensive set of recommendations for improving the nation's civic education programs in elementary and secondary schools.
WHO: The speakers are:
William A. Galston -- Director, CIRCLE
Vartan Gregorian -- President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Rebecca W. Rimel -- President, The Pew Charitable Trusts
John Bridgeland, Executive Director, USA Freedom Corps
Peter Levine, Deputy Director, CIRCLE
Cynthia Gibson, Program Officer, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Terry Pickeral, Executive Director, The Center for Learning and Citizenship, Education Commission of the States
Irasema Salcido, Principal, Cesar Chavez Charter High School
Matthew Spalding, Director, American Studies, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Brian Faith, 202-667-0901
WEB ADDRESS: civicyouth.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program on First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life
featuring author Kenneth W. Starr.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB presents National Capital Chapter-National Assn. For Business Economics (NCC-NABE): Tim O'Neill, President of NABE, Executive, VP/Chief Economist, BMO Financial Group, and Chief Economist, Harris Bank, discussing "The US and Canadian Economies--Linked but not in Sync."
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Sen John McCain delivering a speech on the failure of containment and the need for regime change in Iraq.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE AND REP. RUSH HOLT hold a news conference to discuss the introduction of a private relief bill to grant green cards to the wife and four daughters of 911-victim Waqar Hasan. When Waqar died, his family's visas died with him. All other legal remedies to keep the family in the United States have been exhausted.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Cannon House Office Building Room #402, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-429-9210 x21
WEB ADDRESS: aaiusa.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a briefing on "Iraq Confrontation Splits the Allies."
WHO: The speakers are:
Amatzia Baram, Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Philip H. Gordon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director, Center on the
United States and France, The Brookings Institution
Michael E. O'hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair,
The Brookings Institution
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings
Institution
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Corporate Culture Shock: The Changing Culture of Japanese Business.
WHO: The speakers are:
Gary Saxonhouse, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
Yoshito Hori, Chairman and CEO, Globis Group and Apax Globis Partners & Co
William Farrell, Chairman and CEO, Dynamic Strategies Asia
Naomi Moriyama, President, Digital Powerhouse
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents a roundtable to discuss a book on Life in Government, Public Policy entitled "Policy Passages: Career Options for Policy Wonks."
WHO: The speakers are:
Howard Wiarda, professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Senior Associate, CSIS
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Lowell Fleischer, Senior Associate, CSIS Americas Program
Margaret Daly Hayes, Director of the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, Department of Defense
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a reception for Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations to celebrate his winning of the Loinel Gelber Prize for his book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Jazz and the New Generation an award-winning group of high school and college jazz musicians assembled by Dr. Billy Taylor perform their own works.
DATE: February 13, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
