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Marijuana & Mental Illness
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Marking Final Year of Centennial Commemoration of WWI
World War I, referred to by historians as the defining event of the 20th century and beyond, resulted in the deaths of more than 16 million soldiers and civilians by the War’s end in 1918, and left in its wake a path of political destruction and dramatic social upheaval that can still be seen and felt one hundred years later. On Thursday, March 29, 2018 the National WWI Museum and Memorial, America’s official WWI museum and memorial as designated by Congress, will mark the final year of their centennial commemoration of WWI with a panel discussion on the lasting impression of the Great War at…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: National Commander of The American Legion Denise Rohan
Denise Rohan, the National Commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans organization, will discuss ways that the Trump Administration and Congress can improve the delivery of benefits to the country’s more than 20 million veterans at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Friday, February 23 at 10 a.m. in the club’s Bloomberg Room. Rohan, who represents 2 million Legionnaires from more than 13,000 posts worldwide, will discuss the need to preserve and improve the Department of Veterans Affairs, including VA hospitals. Additionally, she will propose ways to increase…
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Meet the new Federal Election Commission website
Part 1 of the series "It's Never Too Early to Follow the Money" Oct. 13 - Meet the new Federal Election Commission websiteAs frequent users know, things have changed dramatically this year at the FEC’s URL. This is a chance to learn the tricks and functionality of this important website from some of staffers who helped revamp it. It’s also a chance to bring your requests for old favorites you’d like to see restored.
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Mental Health & The Opioid Crisis
Livestream will begin at 2:00pm EDT. Last month, President Trump said the country’s opioid crisis “is a national emergency.” He went on to say “we’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money” to counter opioid addiction. But, what has happened? Is money being appropriated? What is needed? On Monday., Sept .25, at 2 p.m.(NOTE :NEW TIME), in the National Press Club’s Bloomberg Room, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Co-Chair of the House’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus, will be joined by three frontline healthcare workers to discuss the opioid crisis and what they see…
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NPC Newsmaker with Radio Caracas Television CEO Marcel Granier
On Thursday, May 18, at 10 a.m., the National Press Club will hold a Newsmaker news conference with the CEO of Venezuela’s Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), Marcel Granier, in the club’s Bloomberg Room. Venezuela is in the midst of a political and economic crisis. Despite having the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is experiencing hyperinflation and a deep recession. Prices rose by 800 percent in 2016, with the International Monetary Fund predicting inflation could hit 2,200 percent by the end of 2017. Over the past two months, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the…
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NPC Newsmaker with Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle
President Donald Trump has called for deep cuts in domestic programs to fund a proposed $54 billion increase in defense spending and $10 billion for a border wall with Mexico. Some in the Congress and the administration have said that those cuts should include defunding the National Endowment for the Arts and its $149 million annual budget. Kate Shindle, President of the Actors’ Equity Association, representing 50,000 stage actors and stage managers across the nation, says NEA grants not only create jobs in the theatre but foster jobs in restaurants and hospitality, retail and transportation…
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National Commander of the American Legion Charles E. Schmidt
Charles E. Schmidt, the National Commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest Veterans organization, will discuss ways that the Trump Administration and Congress can improve the delivery of benefits to the country’s more than 20 million veterans at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference, 10 a.m., Wed., Feb. 22 in the club’s Bloomberg Room. On March 1 Schmidt will testify before a joint session of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs. He also is expected to meet with the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin during his visit to Washington. Schmidt,…
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Intro to Sunlight Foundation's Politwoops
Follow the Money from the Airwaves to the Source
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