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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: New York City Mayor Eric Adams
New York City Mayor Eric Adams will address gun control and manufacturers at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13. A former captain in the New York Police Department, Adams has been an advocate for tougher gun laws. In June testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, he called for a ban on assault weapons, among other reforms. “It is high noon in America,” Adams said in written testimony. "Time for every one of us to decide where we stand on the issue of gun violence. Time to decide if it is more important to protect the profits of gun…
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NPC Newsmaker: Vanessa Nakate, Climate Activist and UN Goodwill Ambassador
Climate activist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate will address the need for the world's biggest polluters to compensate victims of climate change at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference on Friday, Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. UN climate negotiators have sought unsuccessfully to win "loss and damage" compensation for countries most affected by flooding and other disasters wrought by climate change from countries that are the biggest greenhouse gas contributors. Nakate, inspired by Greta Thunberg, is Uganda's first youth climate striker. She went on to found the Rise Up Movement, an…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, will release the results of a new federal report on the underrepresentation of Latinos in the media industry, including the film, television, news and publishing sectors, at a Headliners Newsmaker event on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. Last year, the 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that Hispanics make up 18% of the population but held just 12% of the jobs in the media industry. Castro, born in San Antonio, is a second-generation Mexican American. After serving five terms as a state legislator in Texas, Castro was elected in 2012 to…
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NPC Newsmaker: Ambassador Masood Khan of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Note: This event has been postponed. Please check back for new date/time. Earlier this year Pakistan suffered a devastating flood that caused significant death and injury among its people. The floodwaters covered more than 1/3 of the country. Contributing factors included excessive rains from the rising temperature of the Indian Ocean and rapid, early melting of the mountain snowcaps. These factors are one of the most clear indications of the role of climate change in natural disasters. Ambassador Khan briefed at the Press Club earlier in the year at the outbreak of the crisis. Now he can…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas will speak about the mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an ever-changing national security environment at a National Press Club in-person Headliner event on Thursday, Sept. 9. President George W. Bush established the Office of Homeland Security in October 2001, a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Congress as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 established the department on Nov. 25, 2002 to consolidate 22 executive branch domestic security agencies into a single Cabinet office.…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, will speak at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Monday, Jan. 30 at 10 a.m. in the Ballroom. Comer is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee now that Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives. Comer has said the Oversight Committee under Republican control will focus on rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and holding the Biden Administration accountable. He also promised to investigate President Biden's son, Hunter for alleged "influence…
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Nigeria Election Press Conference
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Conversation with Debra Tice
The National Press Club Press Freedom Team is hosting a news conference with Debra Tice, mother of award-winning journalist Austin Tice who has been held in Syria since 2012. She will give an update on her son’s case. Mrs. Tice is here for meetings with the Administration and her intergovernmental team. She also attended the Annual White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night where the President spoke with passion about Austin and Evan Gershkovich and the need to bring them home. She will talk about that experience as well. May 2 is a day of action for Austin at the Press Club where we…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Japan’s Ambassador to the U.S. Koji Tomita
Japan’s Ambassador to the U.S. Koji Tomita will outline key issues for the upcoming G7 Hiroshima Summit at a Headliners Newsmaker on May 9 at 9:30 a.m. at the National Press Club. Leaders of the G7 member states of France, the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada and the EU president will meet May 19 to May 21 in Hiroshima. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the 2023 president of G7, said Japan chose Hiroshima, a city which experienced the horrors of nuclear war, as a “fitting location to express its commitment to peace.” During a visit to Washington in January, Kishida said the…
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