**MEDIA ADVISORY**

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters to speak before Ripon Society Luncheon June 13 on Capitol Hill

What:   The Ripon Society's Bully Pulpit Luncheon with United States Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters will be the featured speaker at the Ripon Society's first "Bully Pulpit" Luncheon of 2008. Secretary Peters is scheduled to discuss Administration policies related to transportation and infrastructure at the luncheon. The luncheon is the first this year in the Bully Pulpit series, which takes its name in part from Theodore Roosevelt's description of the presidency and public office as places where issues should be discussed and policies proposed.

When:   June 13, 2008 ~ 11:45 a.m.

Where:  Rayburn House Office Building
               Room B-339
               Independence Ave., SW, and S. Capitol St.
               Washington, DC

Contacts:  If you would like to attend this event or for more information on the event, please contact Sarah Cody at (202) 997-6798 or the Ripon Society Communications Office at (202) 216-1008 or communications@riponsociety.org.

***All media wishing to attend this event must be credentialed.

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The Ripon Society is a public policy organization that was founded in 1962 abnd takes its name from the town where the Republican Party was born in 1954 -- Ripon, Wisconsin.

One of the main goals of the Ripon Society is to promote the ideas and principles that have made the GOP -- and America -- great. Theses ideas include keeping our nation secure, keeping taxes low and having a federal government that is smaller, smarter and more accountable to the people.

For more information on the Ripon Society, please visit our website at http://www.riponsociety.org.