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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION conference themed America's Mental Health Crisis: Finding Solutions Together. ill convene mental health leaders from across the country to share and discover innovative ways to improve access to care, fight stigma and develop mental health programs that can make a difference — all during this time state budget crises.
AGENDA: Highlight:
5 p.m. - Capitol Hill "Into the Light" Reception
Senator Paul Wellstone's tireless advocacy efforts will be recognized posthumously with NMHA's "Into the Light" award.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Washington - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Chris Condayan, 703-838-7551
WEB ADDRESS: nmha.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, COMPUTER ETHICS INSTITUTE AND ASCENTIAL SOFTWARE hold a program on "Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security in the Post-9/11 Era: The Challenge of Information Sharing."
AGENDA: Highllights:
8:30 a.m. - Technology in Securing the Nation
10:20 a.m. - Framework for the Future Knowledgeable about the way we can use information technologies to protect the homeland and the restrictions placed on these technologies, this session will discuss the operational framework that should be considered.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION holds its Trade Policy Series Program on The New Paradigm: Customs and Homeland Security featuring Douglas Browning Deputy Commissioner, Customs & Border Protection Department of Homeland Security.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue\ NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-312-1600.
WEB ADDRESS: wita.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB AND INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS, Inc holds the annual conference
AGENDA: Highlights:
6 p.m. - Showcase Panel
Balancing national security and privacy
Co-sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism's Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting
A distinguished panel examines the growing tension between the security that surveillance might bring and the civil liberties so central to American principles. [More about this panel]
Moderator:
Robert O'Harrow, The Washington Post
Panelists:
Barry Steinhardt, ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty
U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
Ben H. Bell, III, Transportation Security Administration
Kate Martin, Center for National Security Studies
John Malcolm, Department of Justice
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance?" Why do some people choose to buy health insurance and some do not? Conventional wisdom is that the uninsured cannot afford insurance, but is this really true?
WHO: The speakers are:
Helen Levy, University of Chicago
Eric M. Engen, AEI
Larry Levitt, Kaiser Network
Louise M. Sheiner, Federal Reserve Board
Robert B. Helms, AEI
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: CONNECTING FOR HEALTH holds a program to discuss the viability and real-world benefits of a secure, interconnected healthcare information system.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-713-7633
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vermont, marks the second anniversary of his decision to leave the Republican Party.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN holds a news conference to release new report showing that most Medicare doctors in the states of Maine, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia do not participate with the private managed care plans that are the centerpiece of the Medicare "reform" proposal supported by the Bush administration and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
Sen. Debbie A. Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Frank Clemente, director, Public Citizen's Congress Watch
Marilyn Moon, senior fellow, Urban Institute and former Medicare trustee
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Ben Peck (202) 454-5155, Dennis Jaffe (202) 454-5136 or Shannon Little (202) 588-7742.
WEB ADDRESS: citizen.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS holds a news conference to discuss adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: AARP Headquarters, 601 E Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Steve Hahn or Carol Shirley, 202-434-2560
WEB ADDRESS: aarp.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: REP. PATRICK J. KENNEDY (D-RI), FORMER FIRST LADY ROSALYNN CARTER AND FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR TOM KEAN (R), WHO NOW HEADS UP THE 9/11 COMMISSION hold a news conference introducing groundbreaking legislation that would create a series of programs and protocols designed to improve our nation's response in the event of a terrorist attack by increasing psychological resilience among our population.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: steps of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 212.584.5000
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: THE ALS ASSOCIATION, THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL, THE NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION, THE KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION, THE NATIONAL COALITION FOR WOMEN WITH HEART DISEASE AND THE INTERAMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS hold a news conference to discuss Medicare Drug Benefit.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mike Collins, 202-494-6105
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled on The United States, the United Nations and the Future of the Nation State.
WHO: The speakers are:
Roger Scruton, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Birkbeck College, London and Boston University
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Dean Robert L. Gallucci, Dean of Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Dean Galluci has made his career in political military affairs with an emphasis on peacekeeping efforts.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on U.S. Grand Strategy in the Middle East.
WHO: The speakers are:
Samuel R. Berger, Chairman, Stonebridge International; former National Security Advisor
Frank C. Carlucci, Chairman, The Carlyle Group; former Secretary of Defense
Carla A. Robbins, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
presiding
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts, Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam with Thomas A. Schwartz, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, discussing his latest book Lyndon Jonhson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY holds a colloquium on cooperative purchasing and other key legislative developments.
WHO: The speakers are:
Larry Allen, Coalition for Government Procurement
David Drabkin, U.S. General Services Administration
Fred Lees, GW E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law; co-director of the GW Government Procurement Law Program
Ralph Nash, professor emeritus, GW Law School
Steven Schooner, GW associate professor of law; co-director of the GW Government Procurement Law Program
Mark Wagner, Johnson Controls; chair of the public policy committee, Contract Services Association
Christopher Yukins, GW associate professor of government contracts law
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 2000 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Paul Fucito, 202-994-0616
WEB ADDRESS: gwnewscenter.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a program on Bush's Trip to the Middle East: Will the "Road Map" Revive the Peace Process?
WHO: The speakers are:
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings
Institution
Martin S. Indyk, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director, Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
Flynt Leverett, Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Kenneth M. Pollack, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director of Research, Saban
Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Brookings Institution, Zilkha Room, 1775 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202/797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "North Korea: Thinking the Unthinkable."
AGENDA: Highlights:
James R. Lilley, AEI
Panel I: Diplomacy
Selig Harrison, Center for International Policy
Don Oberdorfer, School of Advanced International Studies
Leon Sigal, Social Science Research Council
Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI
Panel II: Contra-diplomacy: Containment or Military Options?
Victor Cha, Georgetown University
Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI
David Kay, Potomac Institute
Paul Leventhal, Nuclear Control Institute
James R. Lilley, AEI
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on Defining U.S. Foreign Policy:
Is the United States a Rogue Nation?
WHO: The speakers are:
Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute; Author, Rogue Nation: American, Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Christopher Makins, President, Atlantic Co
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts, Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL holds the Greater Washington Technology CFO Awards program, which recognizes extraordinary financial executives in the categories of CFO of the Year, Financier of the Year and Community Service.
WHO: Finalists for this award are:
Steve Waechter, CACI
John A. Moore, Jr., ManTech
Paul Saleh, Nextel Communications
Steve Hughes, SRA, International, Inc.
Jim Allen, Veridian Corporation.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: Ritz-Carlton, 1700 Tyson's Boulevard, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents the NSO Youth Fellowship Program Concert featuring local high school students on scholarship studying with NSO members.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Jon Katz discussing and signing copies of The New Work Of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family. Katz looks at how people are turning to dogs for emotional support and stability. He profiles a dozen such relationships-including a Welsh corgi that helps a woman battling cancer, and the goings-on of the Divorced Dogs Club-and asks whether a shift has occurred in the relationship between dogs and humans.
DATE: June 5, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
