Reno, Kemp to Address Annual Baker Institute Conference

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RENO, KEMP TO ADDRESS ANNUAL BAKER INSTITUTE CONFERENCE

Urban Crime, Taxation, Devolution of Government Topics for Panel Discussions

HOUSTON, Aug. 28, 1996-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Republican vice
presidential candidate Jack Kemp have been invited to speak at the second annual
conference of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice
University set for Nov. 12-13.

Kemp is scheduled to deliver his keynote address during the morning of Nov.
12, while Reno is scheduled to speak that afternoon. James A. Baker, III, the
61st secretary of state, will deliver a conference overview during dinner on
Nov. 12.

“This year’s conference will address domestic policy challenges at the end of
the century and will complement the theme of the Baker Institute’s inaugural
conference in 1995 on foreign policy issues,” said Edward P. Djerejian, director
of the Baker Institute. “We are drawing on the strengths of the Rice faculty who
will be coordinating the panel sessions.”

Urban crime is the topic for the first panel discussion scheduled to start at
9 a.m. on Nov. 12 in Stude Concert Hall of Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Lee P. Brown,
former drug czar in the Clinton Administration and currently a senior fellow at
the Baker Institute, will moderate the panel.

Panelists for that discussion include Chicago police chief Matt Rodriguez,
Portland, Oregon police chief Charles Moose, University of California at
Berkeley professor Elliott Currie, and Brookings Institution researcher John
Dilulio.

Devolution of government is the topic for the second panel discussion
scheduled to start at 2 p.m. in the Duncan Recital Hall of Alice Pratt Brown
Hall. Robert Stein, dean of the School of Social Sciences at Rice, will moderate
the panel.

Discussion of this topic will be divided into two groups: academics and
practitioners. The first group of panelists are Andrew Reschovsky from the
University of Wisconsin; Paul Peterson from Harvard University; Kenneth Bickers
from Indiana University; Peter Eslinger from the University of Wisconsin; and
Milwaukee mayor John O. Norquist.

The practitioners include Michigan Gov. John M. Engler and former Texas Lt.
Gov. William P. Hobby. Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar has been invited to attend.

On Nov. 13 at 9 a.m., the final panel discussion in Stude Concert Hall will
focus on tax policy issues. George Zodrow, chair of the economics department at
Rice, will moderate the panel.

Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department Lawrence Summers will lead
the panel discussion. Panelists include Eric Toder, deputy assistant secretary
for tax analysis at the Treasury Department; Lawrence Kotlikoff from Boston
University; Charles McLure from the Hoover Institute; and Rudolph G. Penner,
managing director of the Barents Group.

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