NTPP Launches Its Report - June 9th!

The Bipartisan Policy Center and its
National Transportation Policy Project
invite you to the launch of its report

Performance Driven:
A New Vision for U.S. Transportation Policy


Press Conference at 9:00 AM featuring NTPP Co-Chairs
Dennis Archer, Former Mayor of Detroit
Sherwood Boehlert, Former U.S. Congressman from New York
Slade Gorton, Former U.S. Senator from Washington
Martin Sabo, Former U.S. Congressman from Minnesota

Keynote Address at 9:20 AM
The Honorable Mark Warner, U.S. Senator from Virginia

Panel Discussion at 10:30AM
The Honorable Thomas Petri, U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin
Tyler Duvall, McKinsey & Co.; Former Asst. Secretary for Policy at U.S. DOT
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, DHE Consulting; Former Director of CBO
Nancy Kete, Director of the WRI's Center for Sustainable Transport
Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Breakfast Available

Washington Court Hotel
Atrium Ballroom
525 New Jersey Ave, NW
Washington, DC

RSVP to ehawkes@bipartisanpolicy.org or 202-204-2399

Bipartisan Policy Center's Politics on Film Festival

As part of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Politics on Film festival, which begins this weekend, we invite you to attend a screening of the film “Sprawling From Grace” on Saturday, May 9th, at 3:30pm at the GW Marvin Center Amphitheatre to be followed by a panel discussion. The panel will include some of the transportation field’s leading thinkers, including:

• Joshua Schank and Emil Frankel from the National Transportation Policy Project
• Noted scholar Alan Pisarski
• Polly Trottenberg, Executive Director of Building America’s Future
• David Edwards, the film’s director

For more information about the film itself, you can check out its website www.sprawlingfromgrace.com. You can also visit the film festival’s website at www.politicsonfilm.com. Tickets to the screening are $10 and can be purchased at the door, and a pass for all of the festival’s films can be purchased online for $35.

The address of the GW Amphitheatre is:

The George Washington University
Marvin Center Amphitheatre, third floor
800 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro Station (Orange and Blue lines)

Thanks, and we hope to see you there.

Our Commentary on the Department of Transportation's Reform Proposal

In case you missed it, last week we released a commentary on the DOT's reform proposal. If you are interested in reading it, the document can be found here.