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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Fired for Being Gay: The State of LGBTQ Rights in the Workplace
Gerald Lynn Bostock, the plaintiff named in the case of BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, was fired from his job as a county child welfare services coordinator when his employer learned he joined a gay recreational softball league. On October 8, his case will be one of two heard by the United States Supreme Court to determine whether discrimination against an employee because of sexual orientation constitutes prohibited employment discrimination “because of…sex” within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bostock and his attorneys Brian J. Sutherland and Thomas J. Mew,…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: CDC Update on Coronavirus Outbreak
As additional cases of a novel coronavirus (first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China) are confirmed in the United States, Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide an update on the CDC’s ongoing response to the coronavirus outbreak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 11. Topic: "2019 Coronavirus: What We know, What We’re Doing" Speaker: CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, MD Date/Time: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 10:00 a.m. Location: National Press Club (529 14th…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper
Livestream will begin 6/13 at 10:45am ET. Democratic presidential candidate and former governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper will participate in a National Press Club Newsmaker event at 10:45 a.m., Thursday, June 13. As the abortion debate intensifies again in the United States, Gov. Hickenlooper will discuss why he believes the successful launch of Colorado’s long-acting reversible contraception plan, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative, could be replicated on a national level. According to state health officials, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative helped to reduce the rate of…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Steve Bullock
Democratic presidential candidate and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will participate in a National Press Club Newsmaker event Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 10 a.m. in the Club’s First Amendment Lounge. Gov. Bullock will discuss the details of his plans to reform campaign finance – an issue that has been central to his bid for the democratic presidential nomination. Gov. Bullock, who was not able to participate in the first round of 2020 Democratic primary debates after the DNC disqualified a survey that he needed in order to make the cut, has secured his place on stage for the second round of debates set…
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Campaign Finance Experts to discuss new Supreme Court Case focusing on Donations Limits to Candidates
Campaign Finance Experts Potter and Wertheimer to Discuss New Supreme Court Case Focusing on Donation Limits to Candidates Trevor Potter, president and general counsel, Campaign Legal CenterFred Wertheimer, president, Democracy 21 Tuesday, Oct. 1, 10 a.m.First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club With the U.S. Supreme Court about to hear arguments on another case that could allow donors to give millions of dollars more than they now can contribute to federal campaigns, two experts on campaign finance law will discuss the case of McCutcheon v. FEC and its impact on campaign finance…
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Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Ashton B. Carter
Rescheduled: Managing the Pentagon in an Era of Fiscal Uncertainty Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Ashton B. Carter will address strategic and budgetary challenges facing the Defense Department during a period of unprecedented fiscal uncertainty at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference on Tuesday, May 7. Carter was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of Defense in October 2011 after serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics since April 2009. This National Press Club Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for 10:00AM, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in the Club…
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Chris Brann: Fighting to Bring His Abducted Son Nico Home from Brazil
NPC Newsmaker ProgramMEDIA ADVISORY TO: Daybooks/Calendar/Correspondents/Assignment Editors/Press OfficesFROM: Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chairman, 301-512-7636, [email protected] Chris Brann: Fighting to Bring His Abducted Son Nico Home From Brazil Washington, DC – Chris Brann, the father of five-year-old Nico Brann, of Houston, Texas, will tell his harrowing tale of his ongoing struggle to bring his abducted son home from Brazil publicly for the first time. Examining the case with Brann will be his international lawyer Jared Genser and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of the Sean…
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Cuba's Minister of Public Health to Discuss Prevention of STDs, Especially AIDS
Cuba’s Minister of Public Health to Discuss His Nation’s Progress In Prevention of STDs, Especially AIDS Washington, DC – Dr. Roberto Morales, Cuba’s Minister of Public Health, will discuss Cuba’s program for preventing sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV AIDS, at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on July 1. A committee of independent experts assembled by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) which visited Cuba in March to analyze the island nation’s progress in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis…
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School Choice -- What Works?
School Choice –What Works? What Doesn’t? What will they say about it on the campaign trail and is it true? Washington, DC – Charter schools, vouchers, online education, homeschooling, do these school choice options and others work? Are students learning? How do children in these education programs compare to their peers in traditional public schools? Do choice options save money or drain public school dollars? What’s the truth in what political candidates and school leaders claim? National Press Club Newsmaker news conference, 10:00 a.m., Thursday, August 23, 2012, First Amendment Lounge.…
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James Hansen
Drawing a Line in the Tar Sands: Why Stopping the TransCanada Pipeline to the U.S. is Vital to the Future of Our Children and Planet Internationally known Climatologist Dr. James Hansen (Columbia University Earth Institute) makes the case against building the Keystone XL Pipeline which would transport “dirty oil” from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. As the deadline nears for President Obama to approve or disapprove licensing of the “Tar Sand” pipeline, Hansen warns that it will be “Game Over” for the environment, today’s children and future generations if the KXL pipeline project goes through…
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