Washington – From tomorrow to August 8 Raffaele Cattaneo, President of the Regional Council of Lombardy, also as chairman of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE), will be in Washington and Chicago to meet with federal leaders of the parliamentary assemblies of the United States. His schedule is going to be particularly rich in appointments in Washington, where, together with Franco Iacop, president of the regional council of Friuli Venezia Giulia and coordinator of the Conference of Presidents of Italian Regional Councils, will meet, at the Ford House Office Building, the heads of some departments of the Congressional budget Office. Afterwards, at the Library of Congress, they’ll meet the director of the Congressional Research Service Mary Mazanec. (9Colonne)