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House Democratic and Republican Budget Leaders Van Hollen and Price to Discuss Sequestration, Fiscal Cliff, Budget
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN BUDGET LEADERS VAN HOLLEN, PRICE TO DISCUSS SEQUESTRATION, FISCAL CLIFF, BUDGET House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Budget Committee Vice Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) will discuss the latest on sequestration, the “fiscal cliff” and the budget at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at a National Press Club Newsmaker. The event will be in the Fourth Estate Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 14th and F streets Northwest, and is open to credentialed media and club members. The two will discuss the latest budget deadlines and approaches…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: National Academies Releases 2017 Affordable Drugs Report
Livestream will begin 11/30 at 1:00pm ET.Viewers can email questions for the panel to [email protected] - please include your name and affiliation. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will release and discuss the findings of their new affordable drugs report at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker this Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 1:00PM in the club’s Fourth Estate. The new report examines patient access to affordable and effective drug therapies in the U.S. and recommends a number of policy actions aimed at improving the affordability of…
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NPC Breakfast with University of Missouri President Michael Middleton
Michael Midddleton, the University of Missouri System interim president, will speak at a National Press Club Speakers breakfast on Tuesday June 21. Middleton was appointed to head the University of Missouri last year following racial tension and protests on its flagship campus. He will speak about moving the university forward amid a national conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion that was sparked by the protests. Breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. with remarks beginning at 9 a.m. followed by a Q&A session ending at 10 a.m. Tickets cost $24 for National Press Club members…
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Defense Industry CEOs to discuss Sequestration and National Security
Defense Industry CEOs to Discuss Sequestration and National Security A panel of chief executive officers from the defense industry will discuss their views on the effects of budget cuts and the threat of sequestration on national security at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3 in the National Press Building, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.Panelists:• Wes Bush, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corp.• David P. Hess, president, Pratt & Whitney• Dawne S. Hickton, vice chair, president and chief executive officer, RTI…
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Austrian Embassy Night
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: The President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor
As part of his official trip to Washington, D.C., the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor will deliver an address at a National Press Club Headliners event, to be held in the Club’s Fourth Estate Room at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, September 28. President Borut Pahor was elected the fourth President of the Republic of Slovenia with 67.37 percent of the vote in December 2012. During his long political career, President Pahor has been elected member of the European Parliament, and has served as President of the National Assembly and Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. This news…
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NPC Headliners Breakfast: MSNBC's Steve Kornacki & "The Birth of Political Tribalism"
It seems to be the most popular rhetorical question posed by political pundits, cable news contributors, your coworkers, your friends, and even your Uber driver: when did we become so divided as a nation? In “The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism,” MSNBC host and NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki actually attempts to provide an answer and argues that, while the pressure had been building for decades, the final rupture that cracked our country in two can be traced back to one infamous date: November 7, 2000. On Friday, October 5 at 8:00 a.m…
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2018 NPC Journalism Institute Golf Invitational Tournament
This event has been postponed - we will be announcing a new fall date for the tournament soon.
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Cocktails, Conversation & Songs with "Madame Secretary" Actor Erich Bergen
Erich Bergen, who currently stars as Blake Moran on the CBS drama, Madam Secretary, will discuss his role as a Washington insider on the television series as well as sing a selection of songs at a special National Press Club Headliners event at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 22, in the club’s Fourth Estate Room. In addition to his work in broadcast television, Bergen is known for his performance on stage and screen as Bob Gaudio in the Clint Eastwood-directed musical film, Jersey Boys, reprising his performance from the theatre production. Earlier this month, it was announced that Bergen would take on…
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Panera Bread Founder Ron Shaich
Livestream will begin 4/26 at 1:00pm ET. In 2017 Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich took the company he had once proudly taken public in the early 1990s off the public stock exchange and stepped down as its CEO. Shaich did this, he said, to protect the fast-casual empire and its more than one hundred thousand employees from falling prey to the pressures of shareholders chasing short-term profits. On Friday, April 26, Shaich will deliver a speech at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon detailing why he believes Wall Street’s fixation on short-term profits has led to greater social…
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