UAW National CAP Conference Feb. 5-9 in Washington, D.C.

More than 1,400 UAW political activists from across America will meet in Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2006 - 9 for the UAW National Community Action Program (CAP) Conference: Taking the High Road for American Workers." CAP is the political action arm of the UAW, which represents 1.2 million active and retired workers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

All plenary sessions of the conference will be in the Marriott Ballroom, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road N.W., Washington, D.C. The conference is open to the news media.

  Highlights of this year's conference include:

  Sunday, Feb. 5

  5 p.m.     Conference opens

  5:45 p.m.  UAW President Ron Gettelfinger - Keynote Speech

             MEDIA NOTE:  President Gettelfinger will be available to the
             media for on-the-record Q & A immediately following the close
             of Sunday's session (approximately 6:30 p.m.)

  Monday, Feb. 6

  9:15 a.m.  The UAW's Legislative Agenda
             Presentation by the UAW Legislative Department

  10 a.m.    Media Panel
             *  David Corn - Washington editor, The Nation
             *  Albert R. Hunt - Washington bureau chief, Bloomberg News
             *  Harold Meyerson - op-ed columnist, Washington Post;
                editor-at-large, The American Prospect; editor-at-large,
                The LA Weekly

  11 a.m.    Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan)

  1:15 p.m.  Donna Brazile - Chair, DNC Voting Rights Institute; political
             commentator and strategist; author, "Cooking with Grease:
             Stirring the Pots in American Politics"

  2 p.m.     Panel:  The Economy and Taxes
             *  Lawrence Mishel - president, Economic Policy Institute
             *  Robert McIntyre - director, Citizens for Tax Justice

  3 p.m.     UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker - Update on Delphi

  3:15 p.m.  UAW Vice President Bob King - Update on Tower Automotive and
             other suppliers

  3:30 p.m.  Panel:  Civil Rights
             *  Wade Henderson - executive director, Leadership Conference
                on Civil Rights
             *  Jocelyn Frye - chief counsel, National Partnership for Women
                and Families

  Tuesday, Feb. 7

  8:30 a.m.  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York)

  9 a.m.     Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois)

  9:30 a.m.  Panel:  The 2006 Elections
             *  Michael Davies - Democratic Legislators Campaign Committee
             *  Penny Lee - Democratic Governors Association
             *  John Lapp - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
             *  J. B. Poersch - Democratic Senate Campaign Committee

  10:30 a.m. DNC Chairman Howard Dean

  11 a.m.    Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana)

  Afternoon  CAP delegates on Capitol Hill for meetings with members of
             Congress

  Wednesday, Feb. 8

  8:30 a.m.  Rep. John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania)

  9 a.m.     Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey)

  9:30 a.m.  Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)

  10 a.m.    Conference wrap-up

PRNewswire -- Feb. 3