Panelists:  Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve; former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow for Federal Budgetary Affairs, Heritage Foundation; former Staff Analyst for Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson; Diane Lim Rogers, Chief Economist at the Concord Coalition; former Chief Economist for the House Budget Committee; Eugene Steuerle, Vice President, The Peterson Foundation; former Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute; and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis

David Mayhew, the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University

Pt 1:  Congress and the Presidency: Dissonance in their Electoral Bases?
Pt 2 - What Happens to White House Legislative Proposals
Pt 3 - Reform as a Property of the System

A regional conference hosted by Princeton University`s Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR)

Pt 1 - National Perspective - Thomas Kean
Pt 2 - Vulnerability
Pt 3 - Cooperation Issues
Pt 4 - Societal Resilience - Stephen E. Flynn
Pt 5 - Public Health Preparedness

Panelists: Peter Brooks, a lecturer of Comparative Literature at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and a Mellon Visiting Professor; James Jacobs, the Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University School of Law; and Nicholas Johnson, a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.  Moderator:  Stanley Katz, a Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Speakers:  Adel Mahmoud, M.D. Ph.D., senior policy analyst, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, former president of Merck Vaccines;  Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health, Council on Foreign Relations;  Osman Mansoor, public health physician; senior adviser EPI (New Vaccines), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF);  Laura Kahn, M.D., research fellow, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School; author, Who’s in Charge: Leadership during Epidemics;  Peter Palese, chair, Department of Microbiology; professor, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine;