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AP WASHINGTON DAYBOOK, Thursday, March 6
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March 4 - 6. DIRECT PRIMARY CARE COALITION — DPCC will hold its Washington, D.C. Fly-In. This three-day event will convene leaders of the Coalition from across the country to address current legislative priorities and to strategize on advocacy initiatives with Congress and the Administration.
Contacts: Jennifer Burke, info@dpcare.org, 301-801-9847
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ALL DAY
March 4 - 6. NATIONAL ADVOCACY CONFERENCE — 2014 National Advocacy Conference. For more information: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/events/national-advocacy-conference.page AGENDA: http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/nac/nac-agenda.pdf
Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H St. NW.
March 5 - 6. AHIP NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY CONFERENCE — America's Health Insurance Plans Conference, "ACA and the Year Ahead." http://www.ahip.org/Conferences/Policy2014/
Location: Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1150 22nd St. NW.
March 5 - 6. CARE NATIONAL CONFERENCE — The 2014 CARE National Conference & International Women's Day Celebration. http://www.care.org/get-involved/care-national-conference-international-womens-day-celebration
Location: Washington Hilton & Towers, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.
March 6 - 8. CPAC 2014 — The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) holds their annual conference. http://www.cpac.org/schedule-events
Highlights:
8:50 a.m. Carly Fiorina, Chairman, American Conservative Union Foundation.
9 a.m. Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator (R-TX).
9:15 a.m. Pat Toomey, U.S. Senator (R-PA).
9:25 a.m. Paul Ryan, Chairman, Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives.
9:40 a.m. Tim Scott, U.S. Senator (R-SC).
10:20 a.m. John Bolton, Former Ambassador to the U.N.
11 a.m. Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey.
12 p.m. Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana.
12:15 p.m. Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator (R-FL).
12:30 p.m. Mike Lee, U.S. Senator (R-UT).
2:30 p.m. Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President and CEO, National Rifle Association.
2:45 p.m. Donald Trump, Chairman and President, The Trump Organization.
Notes: Media registration via website.
9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. THE ATLANTIC - REINVENTING THE WAR ON POVERTY — The Atlantic's Reinventing the War on Poverty. Confirmed speakers to date include: Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO of Policy Link; Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ); Robert Doar, Morgridge Fellow in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; Shirley Franklin, former Mayor of Atlanta, and Chair and CEO of Purpose Built Communities; Robert Greenstein, Founder and President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Ron Haskins, Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families and Budgeting for National Priorities at the Brookings Institution; Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University; Alex Kotlowitz, best-selling author of There Are No Children Here; Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA); Kirsten Lodal, Founder and CEO of LIFT; Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV); Irwin Redlener, President and Co-Founder of Childrens Health Fund; Richard Rothstein, Research Associate at the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Robert Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations; Eric B. Schnurer, President of Public Works LLC; Eldar Shafir, Founder of ideas42 and William Steward Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; Tavis Smiley, host of PBS Tavis Smiley; Patty Stonesifer, President and CEO of Marthas Table, and former Co-Chair and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress; Tianna Gaines-Turner, Member of Drexel's Witnesses to Hunger Program; Sarah Rosen Wartell, President of The Urban Institute; Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers; Renee Wilson-Simmons, Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty; Steve Clemons, Editor-in-Chief of AtlanticLIVE and Washington Editor-at-Large of The Atlantic; Sommer Mathis, Editor of The Atlantic Cities; and Derek Thompson, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, will serve as the events moderators.
Location: Ronald Reagan Building, Pavilion Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.
Contacts: Alexi New anew@theatlantic.com ((202) 266-7112)
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MORNING
9 a.m. SAIS - NORTH KOREA - CELL PHONES — "Cell Phones in North Korea: Has North Korea Entered the Telecommunications Revolution? with Yonho Kim, reporter at "Voice of America, Alexandre Mansourov, visiting scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS, and Sascha Meinrath, vice president of the New America Foundation and director of the Open Technology Institute (OTI). Note: A live webcast of this event will be available at http://bit.ly/uski-sais. Members of the public should RSVP to http://uskoreainstitute.org/events/dprktech030614/.
Location: Room 500, Bernstein-Offit Building, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW.
Contacts: Francesca Di Marco SAIS (fdimarco@jhu.edu)
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE - COSTA RICA — Discussion with Costa Rican presidential candidate Luis Guillermo Solms.
Location: 1211 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 510.
Contacts: n/a, 202-822-9002
10 a.m. - 11 a.m. CSIS - MACKENZIE, BHP BILLITON — The CSIS Energy and National Security Program hosts Andrew Mackenzie, CEO of BHP Billiton to discuss how the world can meet the demand for resources as 1.7 billion people gain access to electricity over the next 20 years and energy demand grows by 30%. http://csis.org/event/conversation-andrew-mackenzie-ceo-bhp-billiton
Location: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW.
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. FUTURE OF ASIAN SECURITY - LOCKLEAR — Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security for a discussion with the Commander of US Pacific Command (PACOM), Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III. Introduction: Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Moderator: Barry Pavel, Vice President and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/bsc-20140306
Location: 1030 15th Street NW, 12th Floor (West Tower Elevator).
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. GW - GLOBAL POLICING - INTERNATIONAL CRIME — The George Washington University Presents 'Global Policing in a Changing World. Panel Addresses International Police Cooperation as it Relates to Cyber Crime, Organized Crime and Counterterrorism. Speakers: Patrick Byrne, liaison officer from Europol specializing in cyber crime; Maggie Titmuss, liaison officer from England specializing in organized crime; Adrian Morton, liaison officer from Australia specializing in counterterrorism. Media contact Nicole Carlotto at 202-994-6466 or nfcarlotto@gwu.edu.
Location: The George Washington University, Cloyd Heck Marvin Center, Room 402, 800 21st St., NW.
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AFTERNOON
12 p.m. CATO - HELICOPTER PARENTING — The Cato Institute presents a talk on "Quit Bubble-Wrapping Our Kids!" by Lenore Skenazy, founder, Free-Range Kids; author; and host of the TV series "Worlds Worst Mom (Discovery/TLC). Moderated by Walter Olson, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.
Location: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
Contacts: Media Relations (pr@cato.org), 202-789-5200
Notes: Rescheduled from Feb. 5.
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CSIS - PONI LUNCHI - DAWKINS — Project on Nuclear Issues for a lunch talk with Brigadier General Jim Dawkins, Jr. General Dawkins currently serves within the National Nuclear Security Administration's Defense Programs as the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application (PADAMA). http://csis.org/event/poni-breakfast-brig-gen-jim-dawkinshttp://csis.org/event/poni-breakfast-brig-gen-jim-dawkins
Location: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW.
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. NEC - MOAK — National Economists Club luncheon with Lee Moak, Airline Pilots Association. http://www.thenationaleconomistsclub.shuttlepod.org/Default.aspx?pageId=483884&eventId=835180&EventViewMode=EventDetails
Location: Chinatown Garden Restaurant 618 H St NW.
1 p.m. - 6 p.m. 'POWERING THE PEOPLE' — Event sponsored by the Edison Foundation Institute for Electric Innovation, "Powering the People: Next Generation Utility." http://www.edisonfoundation.net/iei/newsevents/Pages/2014-03-06.aspx
Location: Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
Notes: RSVP to Jon Corley at jcorley@eei.org or at 202-508-5609 by Tuesday, March 4.
2 p.m. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REPORT — Release of a new, nationwide report from the National Network to End Domestic Violence examining a random day in the United States - September 17, 2013 - which found that thousands of requests from domestic violence victims seeking life-saving, emergency shelter were turned down because of severe underfunding of service programs. Participants include National Network to End Domestic Violence, President and CEO, Kim Gandy and Melissa Skelton, a survivor of domestic violence.
Location: 226 Dirksen.
Contacts: Kate Hunte, Kate.hunte@finnpartners.com, 251-406-0920
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2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EESI - SUPREME COURT - EPA CARBON RULES — The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to a briefing on the Supreme Court case, Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is considering whether the EPA's authority to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of new motor vehicles also extends to stationary sources, such as existing power plants. Speakers: Michael B. Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Director, Columbia Center for Climate Change Law; Amanda Leiter, Associate Professor, American University Washington College of Law. RSVP at: http://www.eesi.org/030614supremecourtRSVP
Location: Senate Visitors Center (SVC) 209-208.
Contacts: Amaury Laporte (202) 662-1884 (alaporte@eesi.org)
On the Net: http://www.eesi.org/030614supremecourt
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2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. BROOKINGS - U.S. REBALANCE TOWARD ASIA — The U.S. Rebalance toward Asia: A Conversation with Thomas E. Donilon. http://www.brookings.edu/events/2014/03/06-asia-rebalance-donilon CONTACT: Gail Chalef, Director of Communications for Foreign Policy at gchalef@brookings.edu or at (202) 797-4396.
Location: This is a webcast-only event.
2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. NCHC FORUM - MEDICATION MANAGEMENT — The National Coalition on Health Care hosts forum on Medication Management and Improved Adherence with Anita Allemand, Vice President for Product Innovation and Management CVS Caremark; John O'Brien (invited), Vice President, Public Policy, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield; John McGlew, Assistant Director, Government Affairs, American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
Location: 485 Russell.
Contacts: RSVP to skamal@nchc.org
3 p.m. ASPEN INSTITUTE - MIDDLE EAST — The Aspen Institute's Middle East Programs presents "A MENA Region Based on Pluralism and Economic Opportunity," a conversation with Marwan Muasher, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of "The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism."
Location: One Dupont Circle, Suite 700.
Notes: RSVP to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-marwan-muasher-tickets-10395622587?ref=estw
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. WILSON CENTER - AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL POWER - 1970S — The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-transformation-american-international-power-the-1970s
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. WILSON CENTER - RECONCILIATION IN EASTERN EUROPE — Event cosponsored by American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Society, Culture and Politics Program, and the Kennan Institute - From Memory to Mending: Lessons for Eastern Europe from Germany's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation. Speakers: Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa; Slawomir Debski, Director, CPRDiP; Lily Gardner Feldman, Director, Society, Culture & Politics Program, AICGS; Angela Kachuyevski, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arcadia University; Hope M. Harrison, Associate Professor, GWU; Fellow, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center; Eric Langenbacher, Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown. Moderator: Matthew Rojansky Director, Kennan Institute. http://pages.wilsoncenter.org/20140306ReconciliationConference\_ModelEvent\_ModelEvent\_Registration.html
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
4:30 p.m. SAIS - AGE OF GREAT STAGNATION — "Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of Great Stagnation with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University.
Location: Rome Building Auditorium, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW.
Contacts: Francesca Di Marco SAIS (fdimarco@jhu.edu)
4:30 p.m. SAIS - U.S., JAPAN, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK — "The U.S., Japan, and the Asian Development Bank: Charting Regional Development Through Rough Waters with Robert Orr, ambassador and U.S. executive director of the Asian Development Bank
Location: Room 806, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW.
Contacts: Francesca Di Marco SAIS (fdimarco@jhu.edu)
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EVENING
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. ATLANTIC COUNCIL - VENEZUELA — Venezuela's Protests: Passing Phase or Profound Reform? Discussion with Armando Briquet, Former Presidential Campaign Manager to Henrique Capriles Radonski; Roberto Patino, Former President and Cofounder, VotoJoven; Juan Andres Mejias, National Board of Directors Member, Voluntad Popular. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/aalac-20140306
Location: Atlantic Council, 1030 15th Street, NW, 12th Floor.
Contacts: RSVP to press@AtlanticCouncil.org
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