2008 Legislative Hot Topics White House Conference on Children
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contact us using our website assistance form. - Reestablish the
White House Conference on Children and Youth by sponsoring and
passing legislation to once again hold this decennial event.
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced that would
reestablish the oldest White House Conference-the White House
Conference on Children and Youth-to be held in 2010. President
Theodore Roosevelt first called this Conference in 1909 and it
was held every 10 years through 1970. Similar to recent White
House Conferences on aging, such an event begins with hundreds
of state and local gatherings, meetings, and conversations over
the course of a year, culminating in a national conference
called by the President. The confer