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January 14-17, Bonita Springs, Florida
The Winter Senate Presidents’ Forum tackled the deepening state revenue nightmare, as widespread and sharp declines in state tax collections dashed hopes for a return to normalcy.
October 6-11, 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Winter Forum focused on US/Russia Relations. As Russia builds a new government and a new role in the world economy, it is important for State leaders to understand the shape of a future that includes the new Russia.
July 8-12, 2009, Berlin, Germany
The Summer Forum in Berlin focused on European strategies to develop
alternative energy sources, and how the US can apply those
strategies here at home.
January 15-18, 2009, Aventura, Florida
The Senate Presidents'
Forum met in the midst of economic
crises facing the states. Corina Eckl and Michael Bird,
National Conference of State
Legislatures, addressed the issues
head-on in an update on the
states’ economies and the federal
view of the crisis..
September 11-14, 2008, Los Angeles, California
The Fall Forum focused on
renewable energy with presentations
by Michael Eckhart,
President of the American
Council on Renewable Energy,
Daniel Kammen, PhD, Director
of UC Berkeley’s Renewable and
Appropriate Energy Laboratory,
and Kevin Lynch, Director of
Iberdrola Renewables, Inc.
January 17-20, 2008, Miami, Florida
With the 2008 US presidential
election heating up, the
Winter Senate Presidents’ Forum considered the issues that may
pave the path to the presidency.
Discussions on the economy, immigration,
the Middle East, and
China set the stage for an analysis
of where the candidates stand.
Fall Forum, 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey
The Fall Senate Presidents’ Forum met in
Istanbul, Turkey, at a moment when Turkey
is emerging as an important regional mediator
and just weeks before Turkish airstrikes
against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
rebels in Iraq, who have killed 30,000 Turks
in their separatist conflict, further strained
US-Turkish relations.
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