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.