| SATURDAY
MAY 15 |
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| | Travel
Day/Personal time |
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| SUNDAY
MAY 16 |
|
| 9:00am-3:00pm | Arrive
in Washington DC.
Sightseeing on your own, time allowing; lunch on your own.
National Grange Goss Conference Room will be open from 9am. |
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| 3:00pm | Check
in to Club Quarters Hotel. |
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| 3:45pm | Greetings
and Introductions: Bill Steel, National Master
National Grange Goss Conference
Room |
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| 4:00pm | Workshop-"Celebrating
the Responsibilities of Citizenship"
The 2004 National Grange Grassroots Legislative
Program |
| | |
| | Leroy
Watson, Legislative Director
Chil Sook Hwang, Legislative Research Analyst
John Beazley, Legislative Program Summer Associate |
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| 5:00pm | Short
Break |
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| 5:30pm | Depart
for restaurant |
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| 6:30pm | Dinner
at Gadsby's Tavern
138 North Royal Street
Alexandria, VA 22314 |
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| 9:30pm | Return
to hotel. |
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| MONDAY
MAY 17 |
|
| 7:00am | Breakfast,
Goss Conference Room |
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| 8:30am | Welcome,
Greetings and Introductions: Bill Steel, National Master
Decatur House |
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| 9:00am | Issue
Focus I
Panel discussion: "Trade Implications of Mad Cow disease on U.S. Farmers
and Ranchers" Karen
Stuck, Assistant Administrator
Food Safety and Inspection Service
USDA
Tadashi Sato,
Agricultural Attaché
Embassy of Japan Arturo
Calderon, Agricultural Attaché
Embassy of Mexico |
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| 10:00am | Short
Break |
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| 10:15am | Issue
Focus II - Telecommunications issues facing rural communities
Link Hoewing, Assistant Vice President Verizon, Inc. (invited) |
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| 11:15am | Issue
Focus III - Overview of the new Medicare Prescription Drug program Julie
Goon, Director of Medicare Outreach and Senior Advisor to the Secretary (invited) |
| | |
| 12:15pm | Lunch
- New Medicare Prescription Drug Card Outreach, Education and Awareness Program
for rural America Forest
Harper, Vice President, Pfizer Inc. |
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| 1:15pm | Issue
Focus IV - Issues affecting Biodiesel National
Biodiesel Board |
| | |
| 2:00pm | Issue
Focus V - Issues affecting US agriculture and the Environment Adam
Sharp, Counselor to the Administrator for Agriculture Issues, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (invited) |
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| 3:00pm | Short
break |
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| 3:15pm | Issue
Focus VI - Wind Energy David
Senter, COO Kimmitt Senter Coates & Weinfurter and Director for the American Agriculture
Wind Coalition |
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| 4:00pm | "Grange
Fair", reception & Tours of Decatur House
Saunders Library & Stephen Decatur
House Museum |
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| 5:15pm | Depart
for dinner |
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| 5:45pm | Dinner
at Tony & Joes Seafood Place
3000 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20007 |
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| TUESDAY
MAY 18 |
|
| 7:00am | Breakfast,
Goss Conference Room If
you are leaving today, check out of the hotel before coming to the Grange and
bring your luggage with you. |
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| 8:30am | Depart
for Capitol Hill and morning appointments with individual U.S. Senators and U.S.
Representatives. |
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| 11:45am | Lunch:
U.S. House of Representatives Room 2261 Rayburn House Office Building Special
guest remarks Rep. Richard Pombo, Chairman US House of Representatives Committee
on Resources (invited) |
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| 1:00pm | Additional
Capitol Hill visits |
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| 3:30pm | Attend
a live broadcast of Crossfire, CNN's longest-running political debate program.
Crossfire
telecasts LIVE each weekday before a studio audience. Hosts "on the left" James
Carville and Paul Begala join the program's conservative hosts, Robert Novak and
Tucker Carlson, to face-off with guests that include the nation's top newsmakers.
The 200-strong audience enjoys a half-hour of lively political debate and the
opportunity to ask on-air questions. Crossfire
is telecast, live, each afternoon from 4:30-5:00pm ET. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
Audience members must be seated by 4:10 p.m. Jack
Morton Auditorium, Media and Public Affairs (MPA) Building
The George Washington
University
805 21st St., NW (Corner of 21st and H streets)
Washington,
D.C. 20052 |
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| 5:30pm | Farewell
Dinner-TGI Friday's
2100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington DC 20052 |
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| WEDNESDAY
MAY 19 |
|
| | Travel
Day/Personal time |
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