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NPC History & Heritage Team
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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 Freedom of the Press Team
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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 History and Heritage Team
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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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NPC History & Heritage Committee
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NPC Photography Committee
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