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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING PROJECT will hold a discussion aimed at defining what is desired from the system and the importance of financing to improve the system entitled The 21st Century Challenge: Providing and Paying for Long-Term Care
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Remarks
9:15 a.m. – Facing the Challenges: Perspectives of a Long-Term Caregiver
Judy Woodruff, CNN Anchor and mother of a disabled son
9:45 a.m. – Panel Discussion: Overcoming the Obstacles
Susan Dentzer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Individuals with functional limitations and disabilities will discuss the struggles they have
faced and continue to face in securing long-term care.
10:30 a.m. – How Could Long-Term Care be Provided? A Panel Discussion
Policy experts will share insights on how to improve the organization and delivery of
long-term care.
11:45 a.m. - Policy and Politics of Long-Term Care at the Federal Level
Senator John Breaux (D-LA)
Senator David Durenberger (R-MN), member of the U.S. Senate from 1978-1995
1:30 p.m. - Getting to a Better Long-Term Care System
Overview:
Bill Scanlon, General Accounting Office
Panel Discussion:
Stakeholders representing diverse perspectives will discuss the steps that must be
taken to improve the long-term care system.
Ray Scheppach, National Governors Association
Julie James, Health Policy Alternatives
Stephen McConnell, Alzheimer's Association
Carol Raphael, Visiting Nurse Service of NY
Chip Kahn, American Federation of Hospitals and formerly of the Health
Insurance Association of America
3 p.m. - Perspectives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tom Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (invited)
3:30 p.m. – Conference Wrap-Up and Closing
Summary of key points of the day and identify areas that may help advance the issue
among policymakers.
Susan Dentzer, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: JW Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-687-9840.
WEB ADDRESS: aging-society.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Emerging Business Committee holds a program on Forming Business Alliances: Making it a "Win-Win" Value
WHO: The speakers are:
Ed Abner, Managing Partner, Acquient LLC
Joseph D. Jaap Jr., National Sales Director, InPhonic, Inc.
Patrick McQuown, President, Proteus
Dr. Anand Iyer, Director, PRTM
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: Conference Center, Lower Level, 2070 Chain Bridge Road, Vienna, V.A. CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a hosts a conference to examine China's leadership transition and what effects it may have on Chinese domestic policy, regional stability, and U.S.-China relations
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:15 a.m. - A Debate in Talk Show Format: China's New Leadership Priorities
– Real Changes Ahead?
Bates Gill, CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies
Li Cheng, professor, Hamilton College and
fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Joseph Fewsmith, professor of International Relations
Boston University
David Shambaugh, professor, George Washington University and
fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
10:30 a.m. - China's Policy Challenges under New Leadership
Kurt Campbell, director, CSIS International Security Program
Chien-min Chao, professor, Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, National Chengchi University
Jeffrey Bader, senior vice president, Stonebridge International, LLC
Anthony Saich, faculty chair, Asia Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Arthur Ding, research fellow, National Chengchi University
12:30 P.M. – OFF-THE-RECORD Luncheon Address
Randall Schriver, deputy assistant secretary of State
for East Asia and the Pacific
2 p.m. - New Leadership and Key Regional Relationships
David Finkelstein, director, CNA Project Asia
Ming Lee, professor, Department of Diplomacy
National Chengchi University
Alexander Huang, vice president, Foundation on
International & Cross-Strait Studies
Robert Suettinger, director of research, MBP Consulting
4 p.m. - Closing Remarks
Bates Gill, CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Implementing the New Health Insurance Tax Credit: A Model for Expanding Coverage?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Allen Dobson, The Lewin Group
JoAnn Lamphere, The Lewin Group
Jeff Lemieux, the Progressive Policy Institute
Richard Popper, Maryland Health Insurance Plan
Janet Stokes Trautwein, National Association of Health Underwriters
Robert B. Helms, AEI
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds a current issues briefing on Religious Politics in Iraq
HO: The speakers are:
Graham Fuller
Author, The Future of Political Islam, and Co-author, The Arab Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslims
Faleh Abdul-Jabar, Editor, Ayatollahs, Sufis, and Ideologues: State, Religion, and Social Movements in Iraq, and incoming Institute Senior Fellow (2003-2004)
Rend Rahim Francke, Co-author, The Arab Shi'a: the Forgotten Muslims, and Executive Director, Iraq Foundation
Moderator
David Smock, Director, Religion and Peacemaking Initiative, U.S. Institute of Peace
DATE:
LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-429-3832
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, D-CT, holds a speech to discuss a key portion of his health care plan
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jano Cabrera, 703-894-2032
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Ana Pauker: Dilemmas of a Reluctant Stalinist with Robert Levy, Lecturer, Jewish History, Hebrew Union College and Academy of Jewish Religion, Los Angeles, and author of Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Ashcroft's U-Turn: Suing Big Tobacco for a Quarter Trillion Bucks
WHO: The speakers are:
Matthew Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
William B. Schultz, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute
Kenneth N. Bass, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring the President of the Dominican Republic, Hipolito Mejia, discussing his meeting with President Bush and issues of Free Trade, Migration, Deportation, Security and Counter-Narcotics.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: LC, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Can Increased Marriage Sharply Reduce Child Poverty?
WHO: The speakers are:
Wade Horn, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Lauren Noyes, Director of Research Projects, Domestic Policy, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program on War, Reconstruction & the Arab World With Shafiq Ghabra, Ph.D., formerly Director of the Center of Strategic and Future Studies at Kuwait University.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with Leonard Burman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, will discuss "The Administration's Sneak Attack on the Income Tax."
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, Restaurant, and 618 H ST., NW, WASHINGTON, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE to discuss Common Law, Statute Law and the Conservation Easement, with Dean Lueck, Montana State University and the University of Virginia.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a discussion leading up to the June 1, St. Petersburg meeting between President Bush and President Putin.
WHO: The speakers are:
Vadim Razumovsky, director of the Institute for Applied International Research (IAIR), is the former director of international projects and investment policy for the Russian Federation's Ministry of Fuels and Energy. He served in the Russian Foreign Service.
Yury Fedorov, deputy director of the IAIR, is the former senior vice-president of the East-West Institute Prague, and a faculty member of the Geneva Center for Security Policy.
Andrei Zagorsky, deputy director of the IAIR, is a member of the executive board of the Center for Policy Studies in Russia.
Rose Gottemoeller, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment, will moderate.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jayne Brady, 202-939-2372
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: THE AMERICAN FOREST & PAPER ASSOCIATION host a teleconference to announce its partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its new 55% paper recovery goal. The EPA partnership is designed to renew the paper industry's challenge to the American public to increase paper recovery and reduce the amount of paper in the nation's waste stream and landfills.
AGENDA: Call in number: 1-800-283-1485
DATE: May 21, 2003
CONTACT: 202-463-5185
WEB ADDRESS: afandpa.org.
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum for Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists."
WHO: The speakers are:
Charles W. Calomiris, AEI
Presenters:
Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Discussants:
Charles W. Calomiris, AEI
Desmond Lachman, AEI
Peter J. Wallison, AEI
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a briefing on G-8 Preview: Bush and Allies to Discuss Repairing Their Rift and Rebuilding Iraq. The annual economic summit of eight industrialized nations, which begins June 1 in Evian, France, will provide an opportunity for President Bush to repair relations with major European countries that
opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, particularly France, Germany, and Russia.
WHO: The speakers are:
Lael Brainard, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies and Foreign Policy Studies; The New
Century Chair
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies;
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair
Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
Martin S. Indyk, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director, Saban Center for
Middle East Policy
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: U.S. SENATORS JIM TALENT (R-MO.) AND CHARLES SCHUMER (D-N.Y.) AND U.S. REPS. DANNY DAVIS (D-ILL.-7) AND RICHARD BURR (R-N.C.-5), holds a news conference the Sickle Cell Treatment Act of 2003.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Dorothy Moore - Chief Medical Ofc., Sickle Cell Disease Assoc.
Dr. Michael DeBaun - St. Louis Children> '> s Hospital
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 418 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Rich Chrismer, 202-224-4812 or Telly Lovelace, 202-224-8845
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: CHILD WELFARE LEAGUE OF AMERICA holds a Congressional briefing on Substance Abuse, Families, and Recovery. The briefing, "Not Without My Child: Expanding Substance Abuse Treatment for Families," focuses on the need to invest in family treatment for substance abuse.
WHO: The speakers are:
Elizabeth Meitner, Vice President, Government Affairs, Child Welfare League of America
Malika Saada Saar, Executive Director, The Rebecca Project For Human Rights Mothers in Recovery
Jim Herrell, Researcher, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Johanna Ferman, CEO & Medical Director, The Center for Mental Health, Washington, DC
Dr. Kathleen O. O'Brien, Executive Director, Walden Sierra Behavioral Health Services, Leonardtown, Maryland
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 325 Russell Senate Caucus Room, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202/942-0244
WEB ADDRESS: cwla.org
TIME: 4:45 p.m.
EVENT: JAPAN INFORMATION ACCESS PROJECT holds a program on Report From Tokyo: Will Japan's Economy Implode? A discussion on the state of Japan's economy and investment climate
WHO: The speakers are:
Donald Westmore, Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Abby Pratt, External Affairs Manager, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan)
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, 1501 K Street,
NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC.
CONTACT: 202-822-6040
WEB ADDRESS: jiaponline.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION AND WOMEN WAGING PEACE hold a special reception and meeting with Samantha Power, author, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Samantha Power is Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, where she was Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 2040 S Street NW, First Floor, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: THE ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE holds its annual dinner featuring Regina Vargo, Assistant USTR for the Americas.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703- 875- 4659
WEB ADDRESS: wita.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Hawaii's Halau o na Maolipua performing authentic mele hula, chants and dances handed down from generation to generation.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB book rap with Sidney Blumenthal as he discusses his new book, "The Clinton Wars."
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN NEWS WOMEN'S CLUB holds a Roast and Toast of Cokie Roberts, 2003 Recipient of the ANWC Helen Thomas Award for Excellence in Journalism.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: four Seasons Hotel-Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-452-4169
WEB ADDRESS: anwc.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Samantha Power winner of the 2002 National Book Award and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for her moving history of American responses to genocidal campaigns in the 20th century. She concludes that we Americans have been bystanders, and she explores the question of why-from Armenia in 1915 to Rwanda in a Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HOLDS THE 2003 President's Dinner/fundraiser honoring President George W. Bush
DATE: May 21, 2003
LOCATION: The Washington Convention Center (new building), 801 Mt. Vernon Place, NW
CONTACT: 202.478.4427
WEB ADDRESS: nrcc.org
