| 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-21 Reauthorization |
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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 |
