Reno, Kemp, Baker to Speak at Annual Conference

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RENO, KEMP, BAKER TO SPEAK AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Public policy practitioners and academicians will
participate in the second annual conference of the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy at Rice University, “Domestic Policy Challenges at the End of
the Cenutry,” on Nov. 12-13.

The annual conference will be held in the Alice Pratt Brown Hall. The
schedule of events is as follows:

Tuesday, November 12

• 7:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Tax Policy
  
  Jack Kemp, former U.S. Secretary of
  Housing and Urban Development and former U.S. congressman from New York.
  

• 9 a.m. Conference opening:
  
  Welcoming remarks from Edward P. Djerejian,
  director of the Baker Institute, and Malcolm Gillis, president of Rice
  University.
  

• 9:15-11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Urban Crime and Violence
  
  Moderator:
  Lee P. Brown, senior scholar, Baker Institute
  

  Scheduled panelists: Elliott Currie, visiting scholar, University of
  California, Berkeley; John DiIulio, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow, The Brookings
  Institution; Matt Rodriguez, superintendent of police, Chicago; Charles Moose,
  chief of police, Portland, Oregon; and Chukwudi Onwuachi-Saunders, deputy health
  commissioner, Center for Disease Control.

• 12:15 p.m. Keynote Address: Urban Crime and Violence
  
  Janet Reno,
  Attorney General of the United States
  

• 3-6 p.m. Panel Discussion: Devolution of Governance
  
  Moderator: Robert
  Stein, dean of the School of Social Sciences, Rice University
  

  Scheduled panelists: Michigan Gov. John M. Engler; Milwaukee Mayor John O.
  Norquist; former Texas Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby; Andrew Reschovsky, University
  of Wisconsin; Paul Peterson, Harvard University; Kenneth Bickers, Indiana
  University; Peter Eisinger, University of Wisconsin.

• 8 p.m. Invitation only dinner
  

• 8:45 p.m. (approx.) Keynote address: Conference Overview
  

  James A. Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State Four Seasons Hotel, Grand
  Ballroom 1100 Lamar Street

Wednesday, November 13

• 9-11:45 a.m. Panel Discussion: Tax Policy Issues
  
  Moderator: George
  Zodrow, chair, economics department, Rice University
  

  Scheduled panelists: Eric Toder, deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis,
  U.S. Department of the Treasury; Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University; Charles
  McLure, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University;
  Rudolph G. Penner, managing director, KPMG Peat Marwick, Barents Group, LLC.

• 11:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Concluding Session: Policy recommendations
  

  Edward P. Djerejian, director of the Baker Institute Lee P. Brown, senior
  scholar, Baker Institute Robert Stein, dean, school of social sciences, Rice
  University George Zodrow, chair, department of economics, Rice University

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