2010 Legislative Breakfast and Legislator of the Year Award
- By Kristen Joyner on February 24, 2010
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You may print pdf copy of this invitation to send to your elected officials and their staff here
2010 SWTA Breakfast Invitation
The South West Transit Association
Cordially invites you to its
22nd Annual Legislative Breakfast and Presentation of the
2010 SWTA Legislator of the Year Award
7:30 a.m. Tuesday March 16, 2010
Bullfeathers Restaurant of Capitol Hill
410 First Street, S.E.
Washington D.C.
Please RSVP by March 9, 2010
subject line: Bullfeathers Breakfast
Staff members involved with transportation issues are encouraged to attend.
The SWTA Legislator of the Year award is bestowed upon a member of the House of Representatives or the Senate who has significantly advanced the interests of public transportation in the previous year. The South West Transit Association is a regional public transportation association that represents the interests of transit agencies and related organizations in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The doors will open at 7:15 a.m. for coffee.
We will finish in time for you to hear APTA’s main breakfast speakers
If you have questions, please contact SWTA
Phone: 512-237-9733
This event is no cost for SWTA Members and their guests. All non-members must contact Kristen before attending. Cost for non-members is $49 per person.
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: This breakfast does follow the Committee on Standards guidelines as it will have at least 75 non-Hill attendees, it is open to a wide range of individuals from the public, private and government sectors and is focused on public transportation. See the Q & A here http://ethics.house.gov/Advice/Default.aspx.
US Senate Ethics Committee: Rochelle Ford, legal counsel for the US Senate Ethic Committee, has approved our event according to the “widely attended events exception”. Members of the Senate within our eight states and staffers who work on transportation issues can accept the free breakfast.