Congressional Leaders to Outline Legislative Agenda and Discuss Tax and Budget Initiatives...

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Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:57pm EDT 

Congressional Leaders to Outline Legislative Agenda and Discuss Tax and Budget
Initiatives in Light of the Obama Administration's Plans

On March 25, in the Regency Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol
Hill in Washington D.C., key members of the U.S. House and Senate will discuss
the Obama Administration's budget and tax plans and what U.S. businesses can
expect in 2009. Additionally, congressional leaders and committee chairs will
discuss the legislation already signed by the President or proposed by the
Administration and what we can expect from Congress over the course of the
year. 

The event is the 20th Annual Legislative and U.S. Government Policy Seminar
co-sponsored by major national law firm Baker Hostetler, the Federal Policy
Group and the Yale Club of Washington, D.C.  Attendees are top corporate and
association executives. The event will be led by Former Congressman Mike
Oxley, Of Counsel at Baker Hostetler, and Ken Kies, Managing Director of the
Federal Policy Group.  
         ***The event is Open to the Press. Press riser, mult box and
                       television lighting provided***


    WHAT:
       -- The 20th Annual Legislative and U.S. Government Policy Seminar
          co-sponsored by Baker Hostetler, the Federal Policy Group and the
          Yale Club of Washington, D.C.

    WHO:
       -- Top Leaders of Congress

    WHEN:
       -- Wednesday, March 25, 2009; 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM

    WHERE:
       -- Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill; 400 New Jersey Avenue NW


The schedule of speakers follows below. All times are subject to change. 
    8:00 Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC)
    Majority Whip, U.S. House of Representatives

    8:25 Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
    Republican Whip, United States Senate
    Ranking Member, Taxation, IRS Oversight and Long Term Growth Subcommittee
    Senate Finance Committee
    Ranking Member, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee Senate
    Judiciary Committee

    8:45 Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
    Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee

    9:00 Congressman John Boehner (R-OH)
    Republican Leader, U.S. House of Representatives

    9:25 Congressman Mel Watt (D-NC)
    Chairman, Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee
    House Financial Services Committee
    Member, House Judiciary Committee

    9:45 Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
    Chairman, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
    Chairman, Legislative Branch Subcommittee
    Senate Appropriations Committee
    Chairman, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
    Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
    Member, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

    10:00 Congressman Dave Camp (R-MI)
    Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee

    10:30 TBA

    11:00 Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
    Chairman, Senate Rules and Administration Committee
    Vice Chairman, Joint Economic Committee
    Chairman, Housing, Transportation and Community Development Subcommittee
    Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
    Chairman, Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee
    Senate Judiciary Committee
    Member, Senate Finance Committee
    Member, Joint Committee on the Library of Congress

    11:20 Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)
    Chairman, Senate Finance Committee
    Vice Chairman, Joint Committee on Taxation
    Chairman, Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection and Plant and Animal
     Health Subcommittee
    Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
    Chairman, Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee
    Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

    11:45 Lunch

    12:30 Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
    Member, House Way and Means Committee
    Member, House Agriculture Committee

    12:50 Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
    Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee
    Member, Senate Budget Committee
    Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
    Member, Joint Committee on Taxation
    Member, Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee

    1:15 Congressman Richard Neal (D-MA)
    Chairman, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures
    House Ways and Means Committee

    1:30 Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
    Chairman, International Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee
    House Financial Services Committee
    Vice Chairman, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global
     Environment
    House Committee on Foreign Affairs

    1:45 Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA)
    Ranking Member, Health Subcommittee
    House Ways and Means Committee
    Member, Joint Committee on Taxation


    Contact:  Kelly Finamore
              201-460-2849 (W)
              201-349-6195 (C)
              kfinamore@mww.com


/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- March 24/


SOURCE  Baker Hostetler
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