| Wednesday, May 11, 2005 |
| 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Welcoming Remarks - Mark
Sheahan, PECG Past President |
| 9:30 |
Ed Wytkind, President,
Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO |
| 10:00 |
Panel Discussion on the
Status of TEA-21Reauthorization |
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Moderator: Helena
Zyblikewycz, Transportation Trades Department |
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Stephen Gardner, Dem
Professional Staff Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Senate Committee on Commerce |
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Graham Hill, House
Sub-Committee on Surface Transportation Majority Staff |
| 11:00 |
The NASHTU Agenda and How To
Lobby |
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Donna Harris-Aikens, SEIU |
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Cynthia Bradley, AFSCME |
| 12:00 |
Lunch Guest Speaker:
Norman Mineta, Secretary, US Department of
Transportation |
| Afternoon |
Lobbying Congressional
Representatives on Capitol Hill |
| 5:30-7:30 |
Evening Reception U.S.
Capitol, Hugh Scott Room (Senate Room 120) |
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| THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2005 |
| 8:30 |
Breakfast Guest Speaker:
Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) |
| 9:00 |
Reports from Lobbying and
Discussion |
| 10:00 |
Reauthorization, Finance and
the Public Service in Transportation |
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Jack Basso, Director
Management and Business Development, American Association of
State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) |
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Prospects for Funding
and Reauthorization of TEA-21 and Its Impacts on the States
-- MS PowerPoint Presentation |
| 11:00 |
What is the TRB, NCHRP,
NCTRP? Why NASHTU Should Know |
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Crawford Jencks,
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies |
| 12:00 |
Charles Lee, Assistant
Inspector General for Investigations, USDOT |
| 1:30 2:45 |
First Set of Workshops |
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Pay to Play: What is
it and How to Build a Campaign Around It Jim Marketti, CWA
1032 |
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Safety, Health and CDL Issue
Roundtable Denise Bland-Bowles, AFSCME International Health
and Safety Staff |
| 3:00 4:15 |
Second Set of Workshops |
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Design-Build: Campaign
to Beat it Back in the California Legislature Ted Toppin, PECG |
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Discussion on Gas Tax Fraud
Gary Walker, Senior Special Agent, Inspector Generals Office,
U.S. Department of Transportation |
| 4:30 5:00 |
Report Back from Workshops |
| 7:00 |
Group dinner at AV
Ristorante Italiano (607 New York Avenue NW) |
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| FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2005 |
| 8:30 |
Breakfast Rep. Peter
DeFazio (D-OR) |
| 9:30 |
Round Table Discussion on
What is Going on in the Different States Ned Statchen, CSEA,
SEIU Local 2001 |
| 11:00 |
Report and Discussion on Our
Next Steps and on Keeping the Coalition Going Ted Toppin, PECG |
| 1:00 |
Adjournment |
