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Forum on D.C. Open Government Issues
The National Press Club, as part of its participation in Sunshine Week, is hosting a panel discussion the evening of March 19 on transparency in the District of Columbia. The third annual D.C. Open Government Summit will be an opportunity to hear from innovators who have used open government data and information to create useful tools for our daily lives, such as mapping restaurant health code violations or tracking the District's emergency response times. Traci Hughes, the first Director of the D.C. Office of Open Government, will give featured remarks. The event will take place in the…
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Obamacare After the Exchanges
Obamacare After the ExchangesHow the ACA will define health policy, business in 2014 and beyond Washington, DC – An expert panel of regulators, industry voices and advocates will debate and discuss what is still to come under national health reform — and what should happen next. While the Affordable Care Act exchanges are (mostly) up and running, many issues from Medicaid expansion to the Health Insurance Tax and beyond will be in focus in Congress, in the states and on the campaign trail in 2014 and 2016. Panelists:• Joel Ario led Obama administration development of health insurance…
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Senator Tom Harkin
Note: This livestream is audio-only At a Newsmakers press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, January 30th, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will unveil bold new legislation to tackle the growing retirement crisis and rebuild the private pension system. The current retirement income deficit has reached at least $6.6 trillion—leaving many Americans vastly unprepared for retirement—and 75 million Americans do not have a retirement plan. Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in savings. The Universal,…
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FBI Agents to discuss National Security Issues
FBI Agents to Discuss Sequestration, Furlough Impacts On Law Enforcement, National Security Issues Washington, DC – FBI agents will discuss how sequestration’s mandated budget cuts are affecting daily FBI operations and hampering criminal and national security investigations, as well as the risks associated with additional budget cuts and furloughs expected early next year, at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Wednesday, December 4. Leaders of the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) will also update the group’s recent report Voices from the Field: FBI Agent Accounts of the Real…
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NPC Luncheon with Gloria Steinem, feminist activist and founder, Ms. Magazine
Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist and founder of Ms. Magazine, will speak at a National Press Club luncheon on Nov. 18. Steinem is one of 16 people President Barack Obama honored this year with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In her more than 40 years advocating for women’s equality, Steinem helped found the Women’s Action Alliance, the National Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Media Center. The luncheon begins at 12:30 p.m. Remarks begin promptly at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session. The event ends at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $…
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UN Human Rights Investigators to Discuss N. Korea Violations
UN Human Rights Investigators to Discuss N. Korea Violations At National Press Club Newsmaker News Conference Washington, DC – The three members of the UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry (COI) established last March to investigate widespread violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will discuss concerns raised by their probe at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Friday, November 1. Violations the COI is investigating are those related to the right to food, prison camps, torture and inhuman treatment, arbitrary detention,…
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Finding Common Ground with the NRA on Gun Control
Finding Common Ground with the NRA on Gun Control Washington, DC – Paul Helmke – former President & CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, former Republican Mayor of Fort Wayne, IN, former GOP nominee for U.S. Senate and currently a professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs – will address the political impasse over national efforts to reduce gun violence at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Friday, October 18. After the Newtown massacre last December, many expected some progress at the national level on efforts to…
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How to Write a Book
Join a book agent and four club members/book authors to discuss how to pitch and write a book at a program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in a program co-sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, Freelance Committee and National Press Club Journalism Institute. Book agent Deborah Grosvenor and authors Tom Dunkel, Alison Fitzgerald, Eleanor Herman and Tom Young, all of them members of the Club, will talk about their experiences and offer tips. Former Club President Jonathan D. Salant, chair of the Professional Development Committee, will…
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Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio
Congressional Black Caucus Chair: The State of African-American Women Third-term Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio, the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, will address the state of black women in America at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Thursday, August 1 at 10a.m. In remarks paying homage to a 1974 University of Ohio speech by the first black woman elected to Congress, Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman Fudge will also address the lack of appointments of African-American women by the Obama administration. In addition, she will speak about the service…
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NPC Luncheon with Carly Fiorina, Chairman of Good360
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, who currently serves as Chairman of Good360, will speak at a National Press Club Luncheon on Monday, July 1. Her speech is titled “American Innovation -- Leadership in the 21st Century.” Fiorina is best known as having been one of the most powerful women in American business, leading H-P, and was an executive with Lucent Technologies, the telecommunications equipment spin-off of AT&T. She is now Chairman of Good360, billed as the world’s largest product philanthropy organization. She ran unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate for the U.S.…
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