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Congressional Trade Staff Reception
November 14, 2007
On November
14, WIIT's Legislative Affairs Committee organized a reception for Trade Staff
on the Hill. Over 70 staffers joined WIIT members for an informal opportunity
to meet and enjoy light hors d'oeuvres. Susan Schmidt, WIIT's President, took
the opportunity to introduce WIIT to some who might not yet have heard of
it as well as reintroduce WIIT to others, and to highlight WIIT's role in
Washington as a forum for discussion about substantive trade issues. The reception
also was an opportunity to encourage Hill staff to join WIIT. In addition
to the ongoing support from WIIT's corporate members, we received additional
support from some of those same members and other companies involved with
WIIT. These included at the "gold level" Baxter Healthcare; Manatt
Phelps & Phillips/ManattJones Global Strategies; Sandler Travis &
Rosenberg; and U.S.-Russia Business Council; at the "silver level"
the Angola Trade Representative Office-ANIP; The Boeing Company; Kissinger
McLarty; Phillips Electronics; and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood; and at
the "bronze level" the National Association of Manufacturers. The
Legislative Affairs Committee plans to hold a similar event in the Spring.