Conference History

Public Policy: Always in the Public Interest?
September 23-24, 1994
Location: United States Capitol and Riggs Library of Georgetown University

Welfare - Time Limits

  Moderator Mark Rom Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
  Panelists David Ellwood Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Mark Greenberg Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy
    Pasty T. Mink U.S. Representative, Committee on Education & Labor
   

Robert Rector

Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation

Environment - Regulatory Issues

  Moderator Diana Moss Senior Economist, Putnam, Hayes, and Bartlett
  Panelists David Lapp Policy Analyst, Environmental Action
    John Palmisano Director, Environmental Policy Group, Enron Corporation
    Heather Ross Special Assistant to President William Clinton
   

Jerry Taylor

Senior Analyst, Cato Institute

Health Care - Needs of Underserved Populations

  Moderator Seymour Perry Georgetown University Medical Center
  Panelists Hilda Crespo Director of Education and Federal Affairs, ASPIRA
    Dennis Hayashi Director, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Martin Hiraga Program Director, Asian Pacific Islanders Coalition on HIV/AIDS
   

Karen Johnson

National Secretary, National Organization for Women

Foreign Trade Relations - Trade & Human Rights

  Moderator Pietro Nivola Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
  Panelists Gary Hufbauer
Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
    Greg Woodhead Chief Economist, AFL-CIO Task Force on Trade
    Albert W. Wynn U.S. Representative, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Criminal Justice - Evaluating Current Crime Policy

  Moderator Steven R. Schlesinger Former Director, Office of Policy Development, U.S. Department of Justice
  Panelists Peter Davidson General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Republican Conference
    Dennis DeConcini U.S. Senator, Committee on the Judiciary
    Ronald Klain Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno, U.S. Department of Justice
   

George Terwilliger

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General

Intergovernmental Relations: Non-funded Federal Mandates

  Moderator Margaret Wrightson Assistant Director of Budget Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office
  Panelists Josephine S. Cooper Vice President, Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, American Forest and Paper Association
    Theresa Gullo Principal Analyst, Congressional Budget Office, Budget Analysis Unit
    Frank Shafroth Director, Center for Policy and Federal Relations, National League of Cities
   

Leonard Weiss

Staff Director, Senate Committee on Government Affairs

Public Integrity: Social Values & Ethics

  Moderator Stuart Gilman Special Assistant to the Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics
  Panelists Robert Drinan, S.J. Professor of Law, Georgetown University
    William Galston Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy to President William Clinton
    C. Boyden Gray former General Counsel to President George H. W. Bush

Education - Goals 2000

  Moderator Lanny Griffith Former Assistant Secretary of Education for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs
  Panelists Joseph Conaty Acting Director of the Office of Research, U.S. Department of Education
    Eleanor Daugherty Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Education
    Ellen Guiney Education Advisor to U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy
   

Bella Rosenberg

Special Assistant to the President, American Federation of Teachers