The
Ninth Annual Conference of the National Association of
State Highway and Transportation Unions
was held
April 28 - 30, 2008
at the
Phoenix Park Hotel
520 North Capitol Street, N. W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
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Featured Items from the 2008 Conference
Monday, April
28, 2008 |
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8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast – Ballroom, First Floor |
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9:00 |
Welcome Remarks – Mary Richards,
Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers
and Scientists (MOSES) |
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9:30 |
Congressional
Panel Discussion: What are the Issues Facing
Congress – Reauthorization, Bridge and Tunnel
Inspections, Financing?
Moderator: Ted Toppin, Professional Engineers in
California Government (PECG)
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Helena
Zyblikewycz, Senior Professional Staff Member,
House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure
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Kathy Dedrick,
Senior Policy Advisor for
Transportation, Senate
Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Aaron Klein,
Chief Economist, Senate Banking Committee
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10:30 |
Break |
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10:45 |
Ed Wytkind, President of
Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO
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11:15 |
Emil Frankel, Transportation
Policy Director, Bi-Partisan Policy Center |
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12:00 p.m. |
Lunch
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1:30 |
Screening of Amazing: The
Rebuilding of the MacArthur Maze,
PECG-Sponsored Documentary |
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2:15 |
Break |
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2:30 |
Public Private
Partnerships – Presentation by USPIRG, GAO
Moderator: Dennis Houlihan, AFSCME
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Jayetta Hecker,
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues,
Government Accountability Office
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Phineas Baxandall, Senior Analyst for Tax and Budget
Policy, US PIRG
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3:30 |
Nancy Humphrey,
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US
Transportation, Transportation Research Board |
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4:30 |
Susan Binder, Transportatin for Tomorrow, National Surface
Transportation Policy and Revenue Study
Commission |
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6:00 |
NASHTU Group
Dinner, Hawk’n’Dove Restaurant, 329 Pennsylvania
Avenue, SE (www.hawkanddoveonline.com)
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TUESDAY, April
29, 2008 |
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8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Panel: Federal
Transportation Reauthorization Issues –
Advancing NASHTU’s Agenda in Congress
Moderator: Dennis Houlihan, AFSCME
- Anne P.
Canby, President, Surface Transportation
Policy Project
- John V.
Wells, Director, Office of Economic and
Strategic Analysis, USDOT
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10:00 a.m. |
Lobbying NASHTU’s
Legislative Agenda
Moderators:
Ted Toppin, PECG
Mary Richards, MOSES
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10:30 |
Break |
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11:00 |
Michael Replogle, Transportation
Director, Environmental Defense |
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12:00 |
Lunch
- David Kusnet
-- Love your work? But not your job? Here's
why.
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1:00 to 5:00 p.m. |
Lobbying on
Capitol Hill |
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5:30-7:30 |
Congressional
Reception -- Rayburn HOB, B-338 |
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WEDNESDAY, April
30, 2008 |
| 8:00
a.m. |
Breakfast |
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| 9:30 |
Panel and Discussion: Developments at Highway
Departments Throughout the Nation. Moderator:
Bruce Wyngaard, OCSEA/AFSCME Local 11
- Bruce Blanning,
Professional Engineers in California
Government
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Stephen Livingston,
Connecticut State Employees Association, SEIU
Local 2001
- Claude Fort, AFSCME Local
375 DC 37 (New York City)
- TBD, Minnesota, AFSCME
Council 5
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10:45 |
Break |
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11:00 |
Action Plan for NASHTU for 2008-2009
- Dennis Houlihan, AFSCME
- Mary Richards, MOSES
- Jimmy Tarlau, CWA
- Ted Toppin, PECG
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p.m. |
Adjournment |
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