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SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

POLITICAL SCIENCE TRIP TO WASHINGTON DC
SPRING BREAK MARCH 2007
PENN STATE ERIE, THE BEHREND COLLEGE

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Jeannie Gonzalez, Deb Workman, Sabina Medilovic, and Kristen Bednarski on the Kennedy Center balcony

After a tour of the Federal Reserve Building, the group got to sit and hold a conference in the Federal Reserve Board room, where interest rate decisions are made. We met with Penn State alumnus Alan Quinlan, president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, for a pizza lunch, where he discussed his work on political campaigns. That afternoon we met with a legislative assistant for Senator Arlen Specter and visited the Australian Embassy for a presentation. Later, the group had a briefing at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, and then walked by the Watergate complex to visit the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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The group begins to confer on whether to raise or lower the federal funds rate

Kevin Belknap announces a 1/4 percent drop in the federal funds rate

Andrew Iams and Sara Breese notice the chilly atmosphere in the Federal Reserve Board Room

An exciting sign in the Hart Senate Office Building

Sabina Medilovic, Jeannie Gonzalez, Kristen Bednarski, Erik Huet, Deb Workman, and Rob McGahen demonstrate artwork at the Australian Embassy

It's amazing what can be created with colored pencils at the Australian Embassy

More colored pencil art

The group continues to think after visiting the Cato Institute think tank

We walk by the Watergate - no sign of any burglaries, Monica Lewinsky or the Doles

A view of Georgetown from the Kennedy Center balcony

Students observe the Potomac River from the Kennedy Center balcony