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Transportation Legislative Leadership Summit, February 9

January 26, 2007

Officials in the George W. Bush Administration have announced that it will be holding the White House Transportation Legislative Leadership Summit Friday, February 9, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 p.m., with U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters providing the keynote address.

Slated to give a governor's perspective on transportation issues from 9:50-10:40 a.m. are Indiana's Mitch Daniels and Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell. Introductions are being provided by Maggie Grant, deputy assistant to the President and director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Karl Zinsmeister, Domestic Policy Advisor.

Speaking on Getting More out of the Existing System from 10:50-11:50 a.m. are Doug MacDonald, secretary, Washington State Department of Transportation; Kathy Wylde, Partnership for New York; Tyler Duvall, assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the U.S DOT; and, Bob Poole director of Transportation at the Reason Foundation.

From 11:50 a.m.-12:50 a.m. the topic of public-private partnerships will be discussed by Texas State Rep. Mike Krusee; James Smith, managing director at Merrill Lynch; Murray Bleach, Macquarie Infrastructure Group; and HNTB Senior Vice President Jack Finn.

Closing remarks will be delivered by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Maria Cino from 12:50-1 p.m.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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