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Thursday, October 21st, Noon – 2:00pm
Awards Luncheon


Thursday, October 21st, 2:15pm – 3:45pm
Beyond McConnell: Express Advocacy, 527s and the Future of Campaign Finance Regulation (2 hrs CLE)

The Supreme Court's decision in McConnell v. FEC is one of the most significant decisions on the constitutionality of campaign finance regulation in a quarter century, and the full implications of the decisions are not yet known. This November’s election will be the first regulated under the legislation sustained in McConnell, the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002, but already new challenges to the regulatory regime have arisen. In particular, section 527 organizations are poised to become much more powerful actors in the campaign system than in the past. This panel will examine the new campaign finance regime, discuss its successes and failures, and forecast the future of the field.

Program Chair:
Trevor Potter, Member, Caplin & Drysdale

Panelists:
Marty Lederman, Former Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
Jill Holtzman Vogel, Chief Counsel, Republican National Committee
Hon. Ellen L. Weintraub, Vice Chair, Federal Election Commission

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Thursday, October 21st, 2:15pm – 3:45pm
The Great Telecom Debate: How to Deregulate While Promoting Competition
(1.5 hrs CLE)

In enacting a comprehensive revision to the nation’s telecommunications laws eight years ago, Congress aspired to deregulate the industry while simultaneously promoting competition. Experience has now shown that aspiration is harder to achieve than Congress may have believed in 1996. Yet the aspiration remains, and the vital policy question is how to achieve it. This panel will continue the debate on that question and, looking back on the successes and disappointments of the 1996 Act, the panel will explore the possibility of future legislative and regulatory reforms.

Panel Co-Chairs:
Ralph B. Everett, Partner, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP
H. Russell Frisby, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, CompTel/ASCENTKeynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker:
Hon. Michael J. Copps, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

Panelists:
Heather Burnett Gold, Vice President Regulatory Affairs, XO Communications
James Bradford Ramsay, General Counsel, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
James C. Smith, Senior VP - FCC Regulation, SBC Communications
Richard E. Wiley, Former Chair of the FCC, Managing Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP

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Thursday, October 21st, 2:15pm – 3:45pm
Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and the Patriot Act
(1.5 hrs CLE)

Since 1987, financial institutions have been required by their federal regulators to establish anti-money laundering policies and procedures to prevent criminals from abusing the banking system. After the terrorist attacks on 9-11, Congress enacted the Patriot Act to strengthen U.S. laws against money laundering and to expand the scope of those laws to stop terrorist financing. This panel will discuss how the anti-money laundering laws and regulations are working, how they may need to be improved, and how enforcement agencies are expected to bring civil and criminal actions not only against terrorists and criminals, but also against banks and other financial institutions.

Program Chair:
Warren Belmar, Partner, Balch & Bingham LLP

Keynote Speaker:
Hon. Norm Coleman, United States Senator (R-MN)

Panelists:
John C. Murphy, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
William J. Fox, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of Treasury (invited)
Daniel P. Stipano, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of the Treasury

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