Blogging from Washington

I'm sitting in the Rayburn House Office building where the China internet censorship hearings have just started. I won't be here the whole time, because as it so happens I have a long-standing speaking engagement at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies taking place at noon today (to talk about blogs and international news, including the Global Voices project). So I'll be here for the beginning, then run out for a couple of hours, then come back. There are other bloggers here, so the hearing will certainly be well blogged.

Here's the schedule. Its expected to go all day:

JOINT SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING NOTICE
COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

SUBCOMMITTEE ON AFRICA, GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
and
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey, Chairman
James A. Leach, Iowa, Chairman

February 8, 2006

TO:  MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building:

DATE:                      Wednesday, February 15, 2006

TIME:                       10:00 a.m.

SUBJECT:    The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?

WITNESSES:         Panel I
                    Mr. James Keith
                   Senior Advisor for China and Mongolia
                   Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
                    U.S. Department of State

                The Honorable David Gross
              Deputy Assistant Secretary
                Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
                U.S. Department of State

Panel II
                    Mr. Michael Callahan
                    General Counsel
                    Yahoo! Inc.

                    Mr. Jack Krumholtz
                   Managing Director of Federal Government Affairs and
                        Associate General Counsel
                    Microsoft Corporation

                    Mr. Elliot Schrage
                     Vice President for Corporate Communications
                        and Public Affairs
                    Google, Inc.

                    Mr. Mark Chandler
                   Vice President and General Counsel
                    Cisco Systems, Inc.

Panel III
                    Ms. Libby Liu
                    President
                    Radio Free Asia

                    Mr. Xiao Qiang
                    Director
                    China Internet Project
                   University of California-Berkeley

                    Ms. Lucie Morillon
                    Washington Representative
                    Reporters Without Borders

                    Mr. Harry Wu
                    Publisher
                    China Information Center 

NOTE:  Witnesses may be added or changed.

By Direction of the Chairman

The Committee on International Relations seeks to make its facilities accessible to persons with disabilities.  If you are in need of special accommodations, please call 202/225-5021 at least four business days in advance of the event, whenever practicable.  Questions with regard to special accommodations in general (including availability of Committee materials in alternative formats and assistive listening devices) may be directed to the Committee as noted above.

Comments

[Marshall Kirkpatrick]

Is there a common tag being used for posts on this hearing?

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excellent feedback and coverage !!

Luv you for this, Rebecca !! :)-