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Here are a few Washington events of note for Friday, March 16, as collected by the Associated Press.
The House Oversight committee holds a hearing on the CIA leak case with Valerie Plame Wilson testifying. 10 a.m.
ABA-BUSINESS LAW — The ABA Section of Business Law holds its spring meeting.
12:30 p.m. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is the luncheon speaker.
Location: Renaissance Washington Hotel, 999 9th St. NW. VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER PHAM GIA KIEM
3:30 p.m. Meets with USTR Susan Schwab. USTR offices.
SRI LANKAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER ROHITHA BOGOLLAGAMA
3:15 p.m. Meets with Secretary of State Rice.
4:30 p.m. Holds news briefing. Sri Lankan Embassy, 2148 Wyoming Ave. NW. .
March 14 – 16. LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS — The National Lieutenant Governors Association holds its winter conference.
Location: Westin Embassy Row Hotel, 2100 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
March 15 – 16. FAA AVIATION CONFERENCE — The FAA holds its 32st Aviation Forecast Conference.
Location: Washington Convention Center, Mt. Vernon Square.
March 15 – 16. POLITICS ONLINE — George Washington University holds its 14th annual Politics Online Conference.
Location: 3rd floor, Marvin Center, 800 21st St. NW.
March 15 – 17. REINVESTMENT COALITION — The National Community Reinvestment Coalition holds its annual conference.
7 a.m. FDIC Vice Chairman Martin Gruenberg.
12 p.m. Luncheon speakers – Linda Chavez-Thompson; AFL-CIO; OTS Director John Reich; Rep. Barney Frank.
Location: Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW.
March 15 – 18. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW — The George Washington University Law School sponsors the 17th annual National Association of Environmental Laws Societies Conference.
8:30 a.m. Panel on climate for global warming legislation, with Reps. Wayne Gilchrest and Jay Inslee, others. Morton Auditorium, 805 21st St. NW.
6 p.m. Banquet speaker – Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. City View Room, 1957 E St. NW.
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. RUSSIA-KAZAKHSTAN OIL — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty hosts a briefing, “Disrupting the Balance: Russia’s Efforts to Control Kazakhstan’s Oil,” with Kimberly Marten, professor and chair, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University.
Location: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW.
10 a.m. CLEAN WATER — Clean and safe water providers, environmental and consumer groups hold a briefing to discuss the state of funding for the nation’s clean water and drinking water infrastructure.
Location: National Association of Clean Water Agencies, Jefferson Place, NW.
10 a.m. MEDICAL CARE — The National Association of Community Health Centers, others, hold a briefing to discuss a report on the numbers of “medically disenfranchised” Americans.
Location: Room G-11, Dirksen.
10 a.m. MOELLER — Energy Daily holds a media breakfast with FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller.
Location: National Press Club.
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. US/MEXICO-ETHANOL — The Environmental and Energy Study Institute and the Heinrich Boll Foundation host “Biofuels and Tortillas: A US-Mexican Tale of Chances and Challenges,” a discussion on the effects of U.S. demand for ethanol on world markets, specifically Mexican tortilla markets. Speakers: Victor Quintana, Professor of Social Communication at the Autonomous University of the City of Ju`rez-Chihuahua and Advisor to Peasants’ Democratic Front of Chihuahua; Alexandra Spieldoch, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Barbara Bramble, National Wildlife Federation; and Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, University of Tennessee Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.
Location: Room 485, Russell.
11 a.m. TRANSPORTRATION FUNDING — Officials of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials hold a briefing on the pending shortfall in transportation financing and debut a new policy report.
Location: Suite 249, 444 N. Capitol St.
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. COPYRIGHT AND PROCESS — The Progress and Freedom Foundation hosts a congressional seminar, “What Goes Up Must Come Down: Copyright and Process in the Age of User-Posted Content.”
Location: Room B-340, Rayburn House Office Building.
2 p.m. ANTI-WAR PROTEST — Organizers of Saturday’s March on the Pentagon hold a news conference.
Location: Henry Bacon ball field, 23rd St. and Constitution Ave. NW.
4 p.m. IRAQ-ITALY — Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena who was held hostage in Iraq discusses her ordeal and rescue, in which an Italian general rescuing her was killed by U.S. forces.
Location: Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
7 p.m. CHRISTIANS-IRAQ WAR — Christians, evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics from more than 40 states gather at Washington National Cathedral to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War. The worship service will be followed by a candlelight procession to the White House. Participants include: Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners/Call to Renewal and author of “God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesnt Get It;” Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, President for the North American Conference of the World Council of Churches; and Rick Ufford-Chase, executive director of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and former moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
Location: Washington National Cathderal.
All times local in Washington.
