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European Parliament Delegation Visits to the US - 2010

Situation: 01 July 2010 MT/mt

Date Delegation Number of Meetings (Congress, Administration and Bretton-Woods Institutions) Participants

MEPs Staff* 2010-02-16 Member of President's 1 Initial preparation of President Buzek´s Visit Cabinet 2010-02- ECR Bureau 9 4 David Heyman, Assistant Secretary for Policy, TSA Dan Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary ,State Dept Deputy Assistant Secretary Limbert, Senior Advisor Elisa Catalano, State Dept Stuart Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary, State Dept Ambassor Richard Morningstar, US Special Envoy on Eurasian Energy Todd Holmstrom, State Dept Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affiars Kristina Kvien, NSC Sumona Guha, Office of Vice-President Gordon Matlock, Senate Intelligence Cttee Staff Margaret Evans, Senate Intelligence Cttee Staff Clee Johnson, Senate Intelligence Cttee Staff Staff Senator Risch Mark Koumans, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept Homeland Security Michael Scardeville, Director for European and Multilateral Affairs, Dept Homeland Security Staff Senators Lieberman, Thune, DeMint 2010-02-18 Mrs Lochbihler MEP 1 Meetings on Iran 2010-03-03-5 Bureau US 6 2 Representative Shelley Berkley, Co-Chair, TLD Representative William Delahunt, Chair, House Europe SubCommittee Doug Hengel, Energy and Sanctions Deputy Assistant Secretary Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair Subcommittee on European Affairs Representative Cliff Stearns Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Mike Froman, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, Co-Chair TEC Rand Beers, Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate U.S. Department of Homeland Security Phil Gordon, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs

1 2010-03-15-17 S&D Group 4 3 Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan Homeland Security Under Secretary Rand Beers Representative Bill Delahunt, Chair, House Europe SubCommittee Treasury Assistant Secretary David Cohen Office of Foreign Asset Control Director Adam Szubin State Assistant Secretary for Europe Philip Gordon 2010-03-15 Secretary General and 2 Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs Deputy-Head of Kristina Kvien, Director for European Affairs, National Security Council President's Cabinet Robert Reeves, Deputy Clerk Kenneth Kellner, Legal Counsel, Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives Lorraine Miller, Clerk of the US House of Representatives John Sullivan, Parliamentarian, US House of Representatives Tom Wickham, Deputy Parliamentarian, US House of Representatives , President, World Bank Rich Mills, World Bank Philip Gordon, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, State Department Jeremy Shapiro, Senior Advisor, State Department State Department William Lucas, Director, Office of European Union and Regional Affairs, State Department Nathaniel ‘Chip’ Dean, Deputy Director, Office of European Union and Regional Affairs, State Department Jason Bruder, Majority staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Dillon Guthrie, Majority staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate Sheila Dwyer, Assistant Secretary of the Senate Representative Loretta Sanchez Brian Forni, Majority staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee Amanda Sloat, Majority staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee Jeremy Kadden, Adviser on TLD to Representative Shelley Berkley Sumona Guha, Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia, Office of Vice President Frank Rose, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Policy, State Department Kay King, Director, Interparliamentary Relations, House of Representatives Vincent Morelli, Head of European Division Derek Mix, Analyst in European Affairs, CRS, Library of Congress Larry Silverman, Director for Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus Affairs, State Department Representative James Sensenbrenner Akiko Yuge, Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau of Management at the UNDP Angela Kane, Under Secretary General for Management, United Nations Jessica Lewis, National Security Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Adam Barker, Advisors to Senator John McCain Christian Brose, Foreign Policy Advisors to Senator John McCain 2010-03-16 Pat the Cope Gallagher 1 1 Arctic Region Meeting MEP 2010-03-16 - 17 Transport Committee 4 3 Jo Strang, Associate Administrator for Safety, US Federal Railway Administration (FRA)

2 Susan McDermott, Deputy Assistant Secretary Paul Gretch, Open Skies Negotiator Matt Finston, Department of State Representative James Oberstar, Chair Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Representative Kimberley Rosen, Maine, Representative Joseline Pena-Melnyk, Maryland and Martha Bourtsos, Director of Development TSA, Transport Security Administration 2010-04-15 SEDE 6 4 Representative Bill Delahunt, Chair, House Europe SubCommittee Representative Shelley Berkley, Co-Chair, TLD Representative John Tanner Representative Elton Gallegly Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair Subcommittee on European Affairs Representative Jim DeMint Heather Conley, CSIS Ellen Tauscher , Undersecretary of State Ambassador Robert King Scot Marciel, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asian and ASEAN Affairs Stuart Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs ( and US- EU Relations) Ambassador Nancy McEldowney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs 2010-04-26 LIBE 12 10 Mr Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division Department of Justice Ms Nancy C. Libin, Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer Department of Justice Mr Mark Koumans, Deputy Assistant Secretary Office of International Affairs] Mr David Heyman, Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy, DHS Mr Rand Beers, Undersecretary DHS Ms Jane Holl Lute, Deputy Secretary DHS Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice Senator Joe Lieberman Senator Susan Collins Senator Patrick J. Leahy Senator Dianne Feinstein Representative Edolphus Towns Representative Barney Frank Representative William Delahunt, Chair, House Europe SubCommittee Congreswoman Lorretta Sanchez Representative Benny Thompson Department of Treasury US Secretary: Timothy F. Geithner US Department of State Mr Harold Koh, Legal Adviser Mr James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State Mr Philip Gordon, State Assistant Secretary for Europe

2010-04-26 President Buzek 1 6 Joseph Biden, US Vice-President

3 , US Secretary of State , former US Secretary of State Philip Gordon, Assistant Secretary for Europe Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Advisor Senator Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader Senator Richard Lugar, Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator John McCain, former Republican candidate for President Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair Subcommittee on European Affairs Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of House of Representatives Representative Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader Representative John Boehner, House Minority Leader Representative Howard Berman, Chair, House Foreign Affairs Committee Representative William Delahunt, Chair, House Europe SubCommittee Representative Shelley Berkley, Co-Chair, TLD Representative Bart Gordon, Chair, House Science and Technology Committee Baan Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General Helen Clarke, Administrator UNDP Marek Belka, Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2010-04-26-8 S&D Group 4 1 Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) 2010-04-28-30 S&D Group 8 1 Stan McCoy, Assistant US Trade Representative Representative John B. Larson, Chairman of the Democratic Caucus Representative Paul Kanjorski Representative Luis Gutierrez Representative Bill Delahunt, Chair, House Europe SubCommittee Representative Shelley Berkley, Co-Chair, TLD Olivier Blanchard , IMF Chief Economist Shawn Chang Counsel, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, Daniel Feldman, Deputy, Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Afghanistan), Dept of State Tina Kaidanow, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (), Dept of State Stuart Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (US-EU relations), Dept of State Under Secretary Ellen Tauscher, Dept of State Representative Barney Frank, Chairman Financial Services Committee Representative Rick Boucher Representative Linda Sanchez Representative Yvette Clarke Senator Bernard Sanders Representative John Tanner Senator Benjamin Cardin Representative Alcee Hasting Staff Congressional Executive Committee on China 2010-05-25-7 DROI 6 6 Ambassador Robert King, U.S. Special Envoy for North Korea, State Dept

4 Dan Fried, Special Envoy for the Closure of Guantanamo, State Dept Kathleen M. Fitzpatrick, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, State Dept Anita Botti, Deputy in Global Women’s Issue Office, State Dept Scott Busby, Director for Human Rights, NSC Samantha Power, Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, NSC Michael McFaul, Senior Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs, NSC Carl Gershman, the President of the National Endowment for Democracy Representative Alcee L. Hastings Senator Benjamin L. Cardin Representative Dana Rohrabacker Representative Albio Sires Representative Russ Carnahan Representative Frank Wolf Representative James P Mc Govern Representative Shelley Berkley, Co-Chair, TLD 2010-06-02-4 Deputy Secretary- 4 Dan Beard General, Chief Administrative Officer, House of Representatives Director-General for the John Lawrence Presidency Chief of Staff to Speaker of the House Alexis Covey-Brandt Floor Director to Majority Leader Blake Chisam, Staff Director and Chief Counsel to the Chair, House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct Wilson Livingood, Congressional Sergeant at Arms Jack Looney, Assistant Sergeant at Arms Dr Daniel Mulhollan, Director, Congressional Research Service Dr James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress Dr Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress Richard Hunt, Director, Centre for Legislative Archives Nate Jones, National Security Archive Freedom of Information Act Coordinator 2010-06-02-4 Director-General For 6 Dan Beard, Chief Administrative Officer, House of Representatives Communication Olga Ramirez, Director, House Radio-TV Gallery Brendan Daly, C-SPAN Alec Ross, Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary Clinton, State Department Susan Bundock, International Programming Manager, Communications Director to Speaker of the House 2010-06-07-11 CRIS 13 4 David Wilcox, Deputy Director, Division of Research and Statistics (R&S), Federal Reserve William (Bill) English, Federal Reserve Deputy Director, Division of Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Eric Engen, Assistant Director/Chief, R&S, Federal Reserve Mark Van Der Weide, Chief of Staff for Policy, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve David Lebow, Deputy Associate Director, R&S, Federal Reserve Tom Connors, Deputy Director, Division of International Finance, Federal Reserve

5 Mark Sobel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Monetary and Financial Policy, Treasury Mrs Susan Baker, Deputy Director, Office of International Banking and Securities Markets, Treasury Rawan Abdelrazek, Treasury Representative Brad Sherman Representative Paul E. Kanjorski Senator Richard C. Shelby William Brumfield, Europe Area Advisor, Dept of Labor Jesse Rothstein, Chief Economist, Dept of Labor 2010-06-21-3 S&D Group 4 1 NDI Trilateral Dialogue (EU-US-) 2010-06-28.29 President Buzek + 2 6 Madeleine Albright, Former US Secretary Of State Secretary General + Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Director, OPPD General James Jones, National Security Adviser of the US President Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment For Democracy Representative Bart Gordon Representative David Price Representative David Dreier Representative Darrell Issa (SG) Representative Jim Costa (SG) Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs (SG) Kristina Kvien, Director for European Affairs, National Security Council (SG) Jeremy Kadden, Adviser on TLD to Representative Shelley Berkley (SG) Lorraine Miller, Clerk of the House of Representatives (SG) Stacee Bako, Director for Interparliamentary Affairs, House of Representatives (SG 2010-06-28 - 07- LIBE (Ad hoc) 6 3 Representative Silvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 01 Representative Alcee L. Hastings, Vice-Chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security Daniel Benjamin, State Department Ambassador for Counterterrorism Representative Loretta Sanchez, Vice-Chair, House Committee on Homeland Security Gael Sullivan, Senior Professional Staff Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Jarrod Thompson, Senior Professional Staff Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Clete Johnson, Senior Professional Staff Member, Select Committee on Intelligence Rich Swayze, Professional Staff Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Rand Beers, Undersecretary of Homeland Security David Heyman, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, United States Secretary of Homeland Security

Scheduled Upcoming Visits

2010-07-12-14 ECON (Own Expenses) Washington 2010-07-12-15 EPP Bureau 11 2 Washington & New York 2010-07-17-24 TLD Administrators 11 Washington

6 2010-07-19-21 IMCO, Chair 1 Washington 2010-10-09-10 ECON Washington (IMF Annual Meeting) 2010-09 or 10 JURI Washington (Better Lawmaking - discuss the US approach to regulatory impact assessments with the (tbc) responsible US agency and Congress) 2010-12-02-5 69th TLD San Francisco, California 2010-12-06-11 ITRE California (energy, alternative energy, industry, ICT including internet governance related issues) 2010-12 (tbc) AGRI Washington(establish closer contacts with the US House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry)

Important Note: the information provided in the above table is based on the information supplied to EPLO and stored in its archives and may differ from the final composition and programmes of visiting delegations.

* Includes EP Secretariat, Groups Staff and Member's Assistants

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