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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts
The International President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Cecil Roberts will discuss the future of the coal industry and what effect he believes proposed climate change legislation and initiatives will have on the jobs outlook for coal producing regions at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 4. Roberts also is expected to discuss energy and coal issues and how they will affect the 2020 election. The UMWA has reached out to the Democratic presidential candidates with advice on initiatives that they say could help decarbonize US fossil…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Livestream will begin 7/16 at 10:30am ET. Democratic presidential candidate and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar will participate in a National Press Club Newsmaker event at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 16. Sen. Klobuchar will deliver a major speech on her plan outlining the more than 100 concrete steps she will take in her first 100 days as President of the United States to take on the biggest challenges we face at home and abroad.
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Venezuelan Ambassador Carlos Vecchio
Carlos Vecchio, Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, will deliver an address at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Tuesday, July 30 at 11:00 a.m. on the current situation in Venezuela and the role he says the United States and the international community must play to aid the Venezuelan people as they struggle to recover their freedom. Vecchio was appointed ambassador to the United States in January 2019 by Juan Guaidó, who declared himself Interim President after a widely boycotted election last year that many foreign governments refused to recognize. This…
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Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times Reporter Expelled from Kabul
New York Times Reporter Expelled from Kabul to Speak at Newsmaker 2 p.m. Wednesday New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was expelled from Kabul last week but whom the two presidential candidates said they would allow back into Afghanistan, will speak at a Newsmaker News Conference on Wednesday, August 27. Rosenberg will discuss both his own situation and the outlook for Afghanistan. He has been covering Afghanistan since 2008, first as the South Asia correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, and then for the Times, which he joined in November 2011. He also did a stint in…
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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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Principal Ballet Dancer Misty Copeland at the National Press Club
Livestream will begin April 17 at 8:00am EDT. Misty Copeland, the first African-American Female Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, will discuss her first health and fitness book, Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You, as well as her roles as ballerina and activist in a discussion at the National Press Club on Monday, Apr. 17, at 8 a.m., in the club’s Holeman Lounge. Copeland recently made headlines when she spoke out against statements made by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank that were supportive of President Donald Trump.…
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NPC Speaker News Conference with Secretary Hilda Solis
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will sit down with NPC President Mark Hamrick for an hour-long interview to discuss the employment situation and job creation in the U.S. ahead of Labor Day and the election season on Tuesday, Aug. 30. Sec. Solis was confirmed as Secretary of Labor in February 2009 and has helped implement major facets of the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, such as increasing and extending unemployment benefits, providing training for workers in need of new skills and helping to create jobs in clean energy and health IT. While the administration…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, will discuss the Committee’s updated priorities and investigations at a National Press Club Headliners event on June 19 at 10 a.m. Schiff recently made headlines for suggesting an impeachment of President Trump could serve as a tool to gain information his committee seeks, but has yet to obtain, about the president’s behavior. He also announced plans to take enforcement action against the Justice Department for failing to comply with a subpoena for counterintelligence information unearthed from the Mueller investigation.…
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Two Federal Immigration Judges to discuss challenges facing Immigration Courts
Broadcast Legends: Marvin Kalb
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Peter Thiel
Livestream will begin October 31 at 11:00am EDT. Billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has rocked Silicon Valley with his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. Thiel will discuss that political endorsement and the 2016 election at a National Press Club speakers newsmaker event on Monday Oct. 31. Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies Inc., endorsed Trump at the Republican National Convention in July and pledged a $1.25 million campaign donation in support of the candidate. Remarks begin at 11 a.m. in the Holeman Lounge, followed…
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