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AP WASHINGTON DAYBOOK, Thursday, May 1
GENERAL
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May 1 - 2. GERMAN CHANCELOR MERKEL VISIT — German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Washington on May 1st. Attends dinner with U.S. Senators Thursday evening. On Friday, meets with President Obama at the White House on May 2nd.
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ALL DAY
April 30 - May 1. FDD WASHINGTON FORUM - SULLIVAN — Jake Sullivan, Deputy Assistant to President Obama and National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden will participate in the Foundation for Defense of Democracies forum critical foreign policy and national security concerns (may 1st). Speakers also include: Gen. Michael Hayden and Ambassador of Israel Ron Dermer, as well as a strong delegation from Capitol Hill including Sen. Robert Menendez, Sen. Mark Kirk, Rep. Ed Royce, Rep. Eliot Engel; others.
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 1330 Maryland Ave. SW.
Contacts: (703) 596-2262
Josh Silberberg @jsilberberg (202.403.2921, 703.596.2262)
On the Net: http://www.fddwashingtonforum.org/
Notes: All requests for credentials must be received by close of business on April 29. Space is limited.
May 1 - 2. AAAS - FORUM ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY POLICY CONVENES — Reproducibility in science, a critical component for research progress, will be the topic of a special session at the 39th annual AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy. Press registration, contact Katharine Zambon, 202-326-6434, kzambon@aaas.org Agenda: https://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=STPO14E&OID=110
Highlights:
8:30 a.m. White House science adviser John P. Holdren will deliver the keynote address at the opening plenary session. The session, on the budgetary and policy context for research and development spending in the 2015 fiscal year, will include a conversation between Holdren and Sharon Hays, vice president for science and engineering at CSC, an information technology company. Matthew Hourihan, director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, also will speak.
Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
May 1 - 3. COMMUNITY VIOLENCE CONFERENCE — Leaders in Psychology and Law Address Family, Community Violence. "Confronting Family and Community Violence: The Intersection of Law and Psychology," a national conference co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association and American Bar Association, will explore the impact of violence on children, families and communities and its prevalence and prevention in the home, community and society. The 38 presentations and panels will cover topics including gun violence, hate crimes, racial profiling and stand- your-ground laws, elder abuse, violent sex offenders, human trafficking, juvenile justice reform, intimate partner violence, school violence and bullying.
Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Rd., N.W.
Contacts: PA Public Affairs Office public.affairs@apa.org ((202) 336-5700)
8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. RACIAL WEATH GAP SUMMIT — National experts and leaders gather for the 2014 Color of Wealth Summit, examining the racial wealth gap. The summit will include the release of a new report highlighting research and policy recommendations from the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative.
Location: Visitors Auditorium, U.S. Capitol Visitors Center.
Contacts: Adam Shapiro (Adam.Shapiro@adampr.tv), 202-427-3603
Notes: Full agenda at http://globalpolicysolutions.org/colorofwealthsummit/
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MORNING
8:30 a.m. YELLEN - COMMUNITY BANKERS — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks at the Independent Community Bankers of America 2014 Washington Policy Summit.
Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Regency Ballroom, 2500 Calvert St. NW.
Contacts: Aleis Stokes (aleis.stokes@icba.org), 202-821-4457
Notes: Media must register in advance.
9:30 a.m. SUPREME COURT HOMESTRETCH — The Constitutional Accountability Center will host a panel discussion at the National Press Club titled "Home Stretch at the Supreme Court, the day after the last Supreme Court oral argument is completed for this Term -- featuring leading practitioners and observers of the Court. Dahlia Lithwick of Slate will moderate the panel which includes Erin Murphy, partner at the Bancroft law firm, and the attorney who argued and won the McCutcheon v. FEC campaign finance case earlier this month; Georgetown Law Professor Marty Lederman; and Constitutional Accountability Center Chief Counsel Elizabeth Wydra.
Location: National Press Club, 5Lisagor room, 529 14th Street NW.
Contacts: Doug Pennington (202) 296-6889 x 303 (desk) ((202) 330-2974 (cell))
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. BROOKINGS - TURKEY — Turkey and the Transformation of the Global Political and Economic Landscape - The 2014 Sak¾p Sabanc¾ Lecture with Madeleine Albright. RSVP at: www.brookings.edu
Location: The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW.
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. WILSON CENTER - ECONOMIC REFORM - PAKISTAN — The Political Origins of Economic Reform in Pakistan. Speaker: Khurram Husain 2013-2014 Pakistan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center. Discussant: Shuja Nawaz, director, South Asia Center, Atlantic Council.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center, Sixth Floor, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
On the Net: http://www.wilsoncenter.org
11 a.m. HERITAGE - LESSONS FROM WWI — 100 Years Later: Lessons from World War with Robert Kagan, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution. Hosted by Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy, The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/events/2014/05/lessons-from-wwi
Location: 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE.
Contacts: (202) 675-1752 (heritage.org)
11 a.m. PETERSON INSTITUTE - TRANATALANTIC TRADE — Symposium on "Encouraging a Manufacturing Renaissance through Transatlantic Trade and Investment" at the Peterson Institute co-hosted by PIIE and the Embassy of Italy. RSVP to Yvonne Priestley at meetings@piie.com
Location: Bergsten Conference Center, Peterson Institute, 1750 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CACI FORUM - AZERBAIJAN — The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Silk Road Studis Program of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies presents a discussion on "''E-Government and Anti-Corruption in Azerbaijan: the ASAN Centers with Dr. Inam Karimov, chairman of the Azerbaijan State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations.
Location: Room 806, the Rome Building, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
Notes: RSVP at SAISCACIForums@jhu.edu no later than 5 p.m., April 30.
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AFTERNOON
12 p.m. NEC - NOTHAFT, FREDDIE MAC — The National Economist Club hosts luncheon with Frank Nothaft Vice President and Chief Economist, Freddie Mac on the "Housing & Mortgage Finance Outlook". http://thenationaleconomistsclub.shuttlepod.org/Default.aspx?pageId=483884&eventId=877912&EventViewMode=EventDetails
Location: Chinatown Garden Restaurant 618 H St NW.
Contacts: 703-493-8824
12 p.m. - 1 p.m. WILSON CENTER - FINANCIAL CRISIS — The Source of Financial Crisis. There have been four waves of financial bubbles in the last thirty years, each involved the failures of a large number of banks in a country, and most involved significant declines in the price of the currency of each of the impacted countries. According to Robert Aliber, former Wilson Center fellow, the source of the shocks that has destabilized national economies is the variability in cross border investment flows. Speaker: Robert Aliber, Former Wilson Center Fellow; Professor of International Economics and Finance Emeritus, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Kent Hughes, Public Policy Scholar, Global Europe Program. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-source-financial-crisis
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th floor, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
Notes: Media should RSVP directly to kristina.terzieva@wilsoncenter.org
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. OPEN SOCIETY - UZBEK COTTON INDUSTRY — The Social Cost of the Uzbek Cotton Industry. Speakers: Anastasia Alekseeva, Jeff Goldstein, and Alisher Ilkhamov. Contact: Judith Mazdra, judith.mazdra@opensocietyfoundations.org, 202-721-5600. http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/social-cost-uzbek-cotton-industry?utm\_source=Open+Society+Foundations&utm\_campaign=944149e39c-events-20140421&utm\_mediumemail&utm\_term0\_d16374add2-944149e39c-49412709
Location: Open Society, 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 7th Floor.
12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION - REPORTING IN PAKISTAN — Reporting in Pakistan
- protecting Journalists in One of the World's Most Dangerous Countries. Keynote: Kati Marton, Author and Journalist, Board, Committee to Protect Journalists, Board, New America Foundation. Panelists: Raza Rumi, Consulting Editor, The Friday Times, Analyst, Express News; Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists. Moderator: Peter Bergen, Director, International Security Program, New America Foundation. http://www.newamerica.net/events/2014/reporting\_in\_pakistan
Location: New America Foundation, 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400.
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. STATE OF RETIREMENT IN AMERICA — The Urban Institute hosts a discussion on The State of Retirement: Grading Americas Public Pension Plans. Moderator: Donald Marron, Institute Fellow and director of Economic Policy Initiatives, Urban Institute Panelists: Dan Doonan, labor economist, Research and Collective Bargaining Services, AFSCME; Richard Johnson, director, Program on Retirement Policy, Urban Institute; Stephanie Miner, mayor, City of Syracuse; Kim Rueben, director, State and Local Finance Initiative, Urban Institute.
Location: Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, 5th Floor.
Contacts: Register at: (202) 833-7200
1 p.m. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - LAW DAY 2014 — The Law Library of Congress will present a Law Day 2014 lecture by Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center on "American Democracy and the Rule of Law: Why Every Vote Matters, recognizes the impending 50th anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Press contact: Audrey Fischer (202) 707-0022, afis@loc.gov
Location: Mumford Room, located on the sixth floor of the Library of Congress James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Contacts: pao@loc.gov
1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. BROOKINGS - MASS INCARCERATION - SENATORS DURBIN, LEE — The Economic and Social Effects of Crime and Mass Incarceration in the United States. Welcome and Introductions: Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary . 1:10 pm Roundtable: Smart Sentencing Reforms for Reducing Incarceration Rates Without Increasing Crime; Author: Steven Raphael, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Author: Michael Stoll, Professor and Chair of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, University of California, Los Angeles; Dean Esserman, Police Chief, New Haven, Connecticutt; Christine DeBerry, Chief of Staff for the District Attorney, City and County of San Francisco. Discussant: Daniel Nagin, Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics Carnegie Mellon University. Moderator: Melissa S. Kearney, Director, The Hamilton Project, The Brookings Institution. 2:20 pm The Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014 with Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.); Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah). Facilitator: Roger C. Altman, Founder and Executive Chairman, Evercore. 3:15 pm - Roundtable: A New Approach to Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout. Author: Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy, The University of Chicago; Discussants: Elizabeth Glazer Director, Office of Criminal Justice for New York City Mayor Bill DeBlaiso; Robert Listenbee, Administrator, Office and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice. Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University.
Location: NOTE LOCATION: The National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor.
Contacts: 202.797.6105
On the Net: http://www.brookings.edu
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. WILSON CENTER - ONEVOICE MOVEMENT — The OneVoice Movement: Toward a Two-State Solution. OneVoice Palestine-Gaza Director Ezzeldeen Masri as he discusses the challenges of promoting a two-state solution in Gaza and the role of civil society in promoting a peace agreement. Ambassador Marc Ginsberg will provide introductory remarks. http://wilsoncenter.org/event/the-onevoice-movement-toward-two-state-solution
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th floor, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. CARNEGIE - JAPAN - ECONOMY — Where Next for Japans Economic Revitalization? http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/05/01/where-next-for-japan-s-economic-revitalization/h8av
Location: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. AEI- NORTHEAST ASIA — Escalating tensions: Is Northeast Asia headed toward war on the high seas? Discussion on the future of disputed territories in the East China Sea, if these disputes can be resolved through judicial settlement, and what increased conflict would mean for US interests in the region. Panelists will include Sean T. Callahan, Office of Representative Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI); Eric Sayers, Office of Representative J. Randy Forbes (R-VA); and John Yoo (AEI). Contact Shannon Mann at shannon.mann@aei.org, 202.862.5911. http://www.aei.org/events/2014/05/01/escalating-tensions-is-northeast-asia-headed-toward-war-on-the-high-seas/
Location: AEI, Twelfth Floor Main, 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW.
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. BROOKINGS - EUROPEAN CRISIS - AFTERMATH — The Aftermath of the European Crisis: Where Are We Now? Introduction and Moderator: Kemal Dervi&537;, Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution. Speakers: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Commissioner-General for Policy Planning, Policy Planning Commission, France; Jorg Decressin, Deputy Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund.
Location: The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW.
Contacts: 202.797.6105
On the Net: http://www.brookings.edu
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. HERITAGE - UNDERSTANDING ISLAMIC PARTIES — Vying for Allahs Vote: Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Pakistan. http://www.heritage.org/events/2014/05/haroon-ullah
Location: 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE.
Contacts: (202) 675-1752 (heritage.org)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m. CSIS - BRAZIL — Brazil's Internet Framework - The Politics of Defining a New Age of Global Internet Governance . Panel Discussion with: Beatrice Covassi, Digital Agenda Counselor, Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America; Nathalia Foditsch, Public Policy and Regulation Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank; Carolina Rossini, Project Director for Latin America Resource Center, Internet Governance and Human Rights Program, New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute. Moderator/Discussant: Carl Meacham, Director, CSIS Americas Program.
Location: 212-C, CSIS 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW.
Contacts: H. Andrew Schwartz 202-775-3242 (aschwartz@csis.org)
On the Net: http://www.csis.org
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EVENING
5 p.m. MCCAIN INSTITUTE - RWANDAN GENOCIDE — The McCain Institute for International Leadership hosts a panel discussion on "Twenty Years After the Rwandan Genocide: Have We Learned Our Lesson?" Participants: Mike Abramowitz, director, National Institute for Holocaust Education, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, resident senior fellow, Atlantic Council; Elisa Massimino, president and CEO, Human Rights First; Clemantine Wamariya, human rights advocate and Rwandan genocide survivor.
Location: The McCain Institute, 1777 F St. NW, Second Floor.
Contacts: Meghan Latcovich (meghan.latcovich@asu.edu), 571-481-6727
5 p.m. - 7 p.m. WILSON CENTER - UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE — The Vote: When Does Suffrage Become Universal?. This years Law Day theme is "American Democracy and the Rule of Law: Why Every Vote Matters. The 2014 Leon Jaworski Public Program will focus on the ideal and practice of universal suffrage, emphasizing and exploring the "every in the 2014 Law Day theme. http://wilsoncenter.org/event/the-vote-when-does-suffrage-become-universal
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION - AFGHAN WAR — No Good Men Among the Living - America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes. Contact Liana Simonds at New America at (202) 735-2829 or simonds@newamerica.org. http://newamerica.net/events/2014/no\_good\_men\_among\_the\_living
Location: New America Foundation, 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400.
6 p.m. MID TERM ELECTIONS AND 2016 OUTLOOK — NPC 2014 Spring Hoot featuring Dan Balz, political reporter and columnist for the Washington Post. Balz will discuss the upcoming mid-term elections as well as the outlook for the 2016 presidential contest. There will be a Q&A period. http://press.org/events/2014-spring-hoot-featuring-dan-balz-political-reporter-and-columnist-washington-post
Location: National Press Club, 5Ballroom, 529 14th Street NW.
Contacts: 202-662-7501
7 p.m. - 9 p.m. HISPANIC RIGHTS LEGAL CASE — Hernandez v. Texas to be Discussed to Commemorate 60th Anniversary. A senior U.S District Court judge from Texas and the director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management will deliver a lecture on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas at the Library of Congress. Press contact: Jennifer Gavin, (202) 707-1940; jgav@loc.gov
Location: Library of Congress Mumford Room in the James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Contacts: ADA@loc.gov
On the Net: www.loc.gov
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