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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA holds a conference to discuss, debate, and present critical consumer and public policy issues in the new political and economic environment.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Evaluating Media Scrutiny of Regulatory Agencies; featuring;
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review, Morton Mintz, Washington Post,
Martin Tolchin, New York Times, and Jim Asher, Knight Ridder Newspapers
11 a.m. - Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA,
11:30 a.m. - Charles Lewis, Executive Director Center for Policy
Integrity discussing the challenge of ensuring integrity in government.
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202.737.0766
WEB ADDRESS: consumerfed.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES holds its legislative conference.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - Pre-Conference Seminar #1
Surviving and Thriving When You Meet The Press
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-393 6226
WEB ADDRESS: naco.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a conference to discuss Prospects and Politics of a U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks: Christopher DeMuth, AEI
Deanna Tanner Okun, International Trade Commission
9:30 a.m. - Panel I: Economic Considerations
Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China
Guo Jiann-Jong, Tamkang University
Irwin M. Stelzer, Hudson Institute
Claude E. Barfield, AEI
11 a.m. - Panel II: Political and Strategic Considerations
Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
Wu Li-pei, Formosa Foundation
Steven Clemons, New America Foundation
Therese Shaheen, AIT
12 noon - William Kristol, Project for the New American Century
Tom DeLay, U.S. House of Representatives
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference entitled BorderLines: Canada in North America A look at Canada-U.S. relations from the United States.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Defense and Security: What Should Canada's Role Be?
Chair: Dwight Mason, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jack David, U.S. Chairman, Permanent Joint Board on Defense, Canada-United States
Gregory D. Foster, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University
Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General (U.S. Department of Justice), Criminal Division
10:45 a.m.- Resource Issues: Water and Energy
Chair: Richard Gwyn, Toronto Star
James G. Chandler, Legal Advisor, International Joint Commission
Joseph M. Dukert, Independent Energy Consultant
12:15 p.m. -Luncheon
Chair: Peter White, Hollinger Corp.
Remarks by: John LaFalce, former Member of Congress
1:45 p.m. - Trade and Economic Issues: Is a Grand Bargain Feasible?
Chair: Brian Lee Crowley, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
John Simpson, American Association of Exporters and Importers
Bill Merkin, Strategic Policy (former U.S. trade official)
Sidney Weintraub, Center for Strategic and International Studies
3:15 p.m. - Canada in North America
Chair: Christopher Sands, Senior Associate, Canada Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Carlos Rico, Mexican Embassy
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: H-137 U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHROP GRUMMAN ANALYSIS CENTER TO holds a news conference to present new study on "Future War: What Trends In America's Post-Cold War Military Conflicts Tell Us About Early 21st Century Warfare."
AGENDA: The report focuses on the security environment, military capabilities and key technologies. In this very timely analysis, the Center considers what capabilities will be required to meet the military challenges of the immediate post-Cold War era.
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-875-8450
WEB ADDRESS: northgrum.com
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Sudanese War and the Nuba People.
WHO: the speakers are:
Suleiman Musa Ruhhal, Director, Nuba Survival
Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, State Department Special Advisor on Sudan
John Prendergast, Co-Director, Africa Program, International Crisis Group
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: Defense Forum Foundation holds a luncheon forum to discuss "The Missile Defense Program: Where We Are, Where We Are Headed," featuring Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, director, Missile Defense Agency
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-534-4313
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY CENTER holds hold a seminar to mark the historic transition within the Federal Government as the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is retired and its functions become part of the new Department of Homeland Security.
WHO: The speakers are:
Doris Meissner, former Commissioner, INS, and Senior Fellow, MPI James Ziglar, former Commissioner, INS, and Fellow, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
David Martin, Professor of Law, University of Virginia, former General Counsel, INS
Bruce Morrison, former Chairman, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and International Law, and member, US Commission on Immigration Reform
Lavinia Limon, former Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services, and Director, International Institute of Los Angeles
Michael Fix, Director, Immigration Studies, Urban Institute and Jeffrey Passel, Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute
Alex Aleinikoff, Senior Associate, MPI, and Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University
Demetrios Papdemetrios, Co-Director, MPI
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: 1400 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-266-1910
WEB ADDRESS: mpi.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America.
WHO: the speakers are:
Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, George Mason University, and a former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Humanities and Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and a former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution, Columnist, The Washington Post, Co-Chair, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and a former Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features The Present Tense who are masters of performance of improvisational dance and music with Daniel Burkholder (The PlayGround) and Sharon Mansur (impact performance). Pieces include In my skin, trajectory altered slightly and excerpt from buried in the sky.
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Sen. James Jeffords's, I-VT, discussing and signing copies of AN INDEPENDENT MAN, which portrays his Vermont background, and on his dramatic defection from the Republican side of the aisle in May 2001 and its consequences (both personal and political).
DATE: February 28, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
