December 03, 2008 12:43 AM UTC

Freshman Orientation #2 schedule (policy orientation at Harvard)

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• by: Jared Polis

(Bumping this into Wednesday – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Two weeks ago we had a weeklong “Freshman orientation” in DC for the incoming class of 53 members.

We mostly covered the (complex) logistical aspects of setting up our offices, picking out furniture, choosing our offices, employment policies, ethics, how voting on the floor works, etc. I enjoyed spending time with Mike Coffman and Betsy Markey from our delegation. All of New Mexico’s three representatives are Freshman this year as well, and there was also one from NV and one from AZ so we had quite the block from the west.

This week many members of the Freshman class will be in Boston for a more policy-oriented new member orientation at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and I thought you might be interested in seeing what’s on tap for Congress’s newest members.

Colorado’s own Diana DeGette is one of the presenters, and her session is entitled “MAKING AN IMPACT AS A NEW MEMBER OF CONGRESS”. Our schedule is after the jump.

Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2008

5:30 p.m. OPENING RECEPTION

The Honorable Bill Purcell, Director, Institute of Politics;

Mayor, Nashville, TN (1999-2007)

David Ellwood, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government

The Honorable Michael Capuano, Member, United States House of

Representatives (D-08, MA)

Drew Faust, President, Harvard University

6:30p.m. NEW ENGLAND CLAMBAKE

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. THE STATUS OF INTELLIGENCE REFORM AND THE

IMPORTANT ROLE OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

The Honorable Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence

Moderated by: Mary Margaret Graham, Fellow, Institute of Politics Fall 2008, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection  

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. THE POLITICS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET

Linda Bilmes, Lecturer in Public Finance, Harvard Kennedy School

Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget;

Director, Fiscal Policy Program, New America Foundation  

The Honorable David Walker, President and CEO,

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. FUTURE OF AMERICAN POWER

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service and

Professor Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations,

John F. Kennedy School of Government

12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. LUNCH

RADICAL CHANGES IN AMERICAN FAMILIES:  

CHALLENGES FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT

David Ellwood, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. BREAK

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and

International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

The Honorable Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and

International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Meghan O’Sullivan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy

School

6:00 p.m. FORUM EVENT

7:30 p.m. RECEPTION AND DINNER WITH HARVARD FACULTY

EDUCATION: A SMART INVESTMENT

William Gates Sr., Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Thursday, December 4, 2008

8:00 a.m. BREAKFAST

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and

Investment, Harvard Kennedy School

Jeffery Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy,

Harvard Kennedy School

Gregory Mankiw, Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

David Ellwood (moderator), Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. BREAK

10:45 a.m. – 12 noon TRANSITIONING TO A CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY

Van Jones, Founding President, Green for All;

Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Cathy Zoi, CEO, Alliance for Climate Protection

Maralee Schwartz (moderator), Visiting Murrow Lecturer in the Practice of

Press and Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m. MAKING AN IMPACT AS A NEW MEMBER OF CONGRESS

The Honorable Diana DeGette, Member, United States House of

Representatives (D-01, CO)

Elizabeth Sears Smith, Chief of Staff, Congressman Rahm Emanuel

David King (moderator), Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ENERGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY

John Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public

Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School

Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and

Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School

The Honorable Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future;

Member, Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Committee;

Member, United States House of Representatives (IN-2, D, 1975-1995)

Graham Allison (moderator), Director, Belfer Center for Science and

International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PUBLIC EDUCATION: WHAT CAN CONGRESS DO?

Susan Moore Johnson, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching and

Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Thomas Kane, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate

School of Education; Faculty Director, Center for Education Policy

Research, Harvard University

Bridget Terry Long, Associate Professor of Education and Economics,

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Robert B. Schwartz, Academic Dean and William Henry Bloomberg

Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education

The Honorable Bill Purcell (moderator), Director, Institute of Politics;

Mayor, Nashville, TN (1999-2007)

6:00 p.m. DEPART FOR THE LIBRARY

8:00 p.m. DINNER

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ELECTION OF

BARACK OBAMA ON AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS

Lawrence Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences,

Harvard University

Henry Louis Gates, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American,

Harvard University

Claudine Gay, Professor of Government and of Africa and

African American Studies, Harvard University

William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor,

Harvard University

10:00 p.m. ARRIVE BACK AT  HOTEL

Friday, December 5, 2006

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST WITH KENNEDY SCHOOL STUDENTS

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. HEALTHCARE POLICY

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Stuart Butler, Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies

Conference Center Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Tim Westmorland, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School

Gail Wilensky, Senior Fellow, Project Hope

Sheila Burke (moderator), Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and F

Faculty Research Fellow, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy,

Harvard Kennedy School

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. STANDING ON THE EDGE OF A NEW FRONTIER:

THE WORLD IN 2033

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director,

Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School

Elaine Kamarck (moderator), Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government

12:15 p.m. LUNCH

That’s it!

Jared Polis