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James Mulva does not yet drive a plug-in or hybrid car, but at a Jan. 13 luncheon, the chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips was adamant that the Obama administration focus on the energy opportunities.

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Remarks by President Sylvia Smith Tuesday as 35 Club members received awards for their spirit of generosity in volunteering time and talent to the NPC in 2008:

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Remarks from President Sylvia Smith Tuesday evening as she presented the Berny Krug Award to the 2008 co-chairs of the Events Committee, Frederica Dunn and Joe Enoch:

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Posted by Ryan Howell - 01/12/2009 | Email the editor
Journopalooza Rocks National Press Club

Four journalist-driven bands rocked the Club on Friday in the first-ever Journopalooza music festival for charity. The Club sold more than 700 tickets for the event and raised about $15,000, according to an early estimate, packing the ballroom and overflowing onto the 13th floor in a concert for which every dime benefited a journalist.

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The head of the NASDAQ stock market used his Jan. 8 Club luncheon platform to outline causes of the U.S. economic crisis last fall, and to urge regulatory reforms to provide trading markets with better information for investors.

Robert Greifeld, president and CEO since 2003 of the electronic stock market, said the breakdown''s root cause was "bad decision-making based on bad information….Throughout the economy, trillions of dollars in investment instruments were never subject to the rigor of trading on a transparent, well-regulated market."

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Calling the book “a labor of love,” author Michael Davis discussed his book "Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street" at the Club on Tuesday.

Davis stated that Sesame Street is the world’s most influential television program with over 120 versions playing in countries around the globe.

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Last month Scott Applewhite donated one of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photos to the Club, one that depicts then-President Clinton as he headed to make a statement about the impeachment inquiry and to apologize for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair. The photo is visually striking, showing Clinton emerging from the colonnade at the White House. We're most grateful for the gift, and it will hang with our other Pulitzer photos. I was at the presentation ceremony and told Scott how much we appreciated his gift. He then gave the most interesting talk about how the photo was created.

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A collapsing stock market has not shaken investor confidence in their retirement plans, according to a survey released at a Newsmaker on Friday, Dec. 19.

The Investment Company Institute analyzed data from more than 22 million 401(k) retirement savings accounts sponsored by its members and other large financial administrators.

The study found that 3 percent of investors stopped contributing to their plans in 2008 and that 3.7 percent took some kind of withdrawal. “In sum, 401(k) investors are not racing for the exits,” said

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Paul Krugman, 2008 economics Nobel laureate, Princeton professor and New York Times columnist, intertwined economic and history lessons with prediction and analysis at a Dec. 18 Club Luncheon.

He said the Federal Reserve’s tools to contain the current economic crisis had reached their limit without stemming the economy’s downward slide and that massive federal spending was the remaining policy tool to check that slide. He foresaw unemployment rates in the 9 to 10 percent range by the end of this year because spending projects won’t start immediately.

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“Help us tell the world that fear is not the answer,” the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori told a room filled with the faithful and skeptical who came to hear her speak at a Club luncheon Tuesday.

Jefferts Schori is the 26th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and the first woman to lead a national church in the 520-year history of Anglicanism/

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