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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Livestream will begin 8/6 at 10:00am ET. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker news conference, 10:00 a.m., July 31. Brown will unveil new legislation to curb stock buybacks and create a ‘worker dividend’ to ensure workers get a share of the profits that they help create. Large publicly traded corporations often buy back their own stock in order to boost share value for their executives and investors. This practice has accelerated as a result of recent changes in tax law that benefited major corporations and the wealthiest Americans.…
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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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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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NPC Press Freedom Team
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NPC Democratic Debate Watch
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NPC Democratic Debate Watch
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NPC Newsmaker: Andy Parker & the case for revisiting Section 230
Andy Parker, activist, author, and father of slain journalist Alison Parker, will make the case for revisiting the immunity and protections enjoyed by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other online publishers of third-party content under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) at a National Press Club Headliners newsmaker event Tuesday, August 6 at 2:00 p.m. Parker’s daughter Alison was 24-years-old and working as a journalist with CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, VA when she was assassinated on live TV by a disgruntled former co-worker. The murderer filmed the killing and then…
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NPC Newsmaker: Xiyue Wang's Wife Marks Third Anniversary of His Imprisonment in Iran
Marking the third anniversary of Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang’s false imprisonment in Iran, his wife Hua Qu will deliver remarks about the status of his case in a National Press Club Newsmaker event Thursday, Aug. 8 at 10 a.m. in the Club’s Bloomberg Room. In August 2016, Xiyue had been conducting research for his doctoral thesis in Tehran when he was wrongfully arrested, charged and convicted of espionage and sentenced 10 years in prison by Iranian authorities. A naturalized American citizen, Wang has not seen his wife or six-year-old son in three years. He is being…
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NPC House Team
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