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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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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: original Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to streets, parks, and auditoriums to protest environmental degradation. This first Earth Day sparked the creation of the EPA and passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. Twenty years later, one of Earth Day’s original organizers Denis Hayes appeared at the National Press Club to announce the launch of Earth Day as a global organization, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries. On Monday, April 22, 2019 Denis Hayes will return to the National Press Club to announce major global mobilizations ahead of Earth Day’s…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Marking Final Year of Centennial Commemoration of WWI
World War I, referred to by historians as the defining event of the 20th century and beyond, resulted in the deaths of more than 16 million soldiers and civilians by the War’s end in 1918, and left in its wake a path of political destruction and dramatic social upheaval that can still be seen and felt one hundred years later. On Thursday, March 29, 2018 the National WWI Museum and Memorial, America’s official WWI museum and memorial as designated by Congress, will mark the final year of their centennial commemoration of WWI with a panel discussion on the lasting impression of the Great War at…
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National Press Club to Make Announcement on the Case of Jailed Journalist
Livestream will begin 3/6 at 2:00pm ET. The National Press Club will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 6 to discuss a new development in the case of jailed Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto. Gutierrez, whose reporting in his home country made him a target of death threats, accepted the Club's John Aubuchon Press Freedom award o behalf of Mexico's journalists in October. Two months later, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement threatened to deport him. When the Board of Immigration Appeals stayed that action, ICE took Gutierrez and his son into custody. The National…
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NPC Headliners Film Screening: Christy Turlington Burns, "Giving Birth in America"
Christy Turlington Burns, founder & CEO of the nonprofit Every Mother Counts, will discuss U.S. maternal health challenges, as well as legislation she is encouraging Congress to pass to improve access to maternity care for American women at a special film screening at the National Press Club on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018 at 5 p.m. in the club’s Ballroom. The newsmaker event will begin with a screening of two short films from the Every Mother Count’s series, “Giving Birth in America,” that demonstrate the challenges pregnant women and mothers are facing in the United States,…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: National Commander of The American Legion Denise Rohan
Denise Rohan, the National Commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans organization, will discuss ways that the Trump Administration and Congress can improve the delivery of benefits to the country’s more than 20 million veterans at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Friday, February 23 at 10 a.m. in the club’s Bloomberg Room. Rohan, who represents 2 million Legionnaires from more than 13,000 posts worldwide, will discuss the need to preserve and improve the Department of Veterans Affairs, including VA hospitals. Additionally, she will propose ways to increase…
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Review of 2017 Virginia Elections with Incoming Delegates Chris Hurst & Danica Roem
Vivian Awards
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
Livestream will begin at 10:00am ET. In a New York Times profile the Sunday after Thanksgiving, California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the philosophy of the Democratic Party leaders should be, “If you work hard and play by the rules, we’ve got your back.” Becerra doesn’t believe the Trump Administration has been following the rules and since becoming Attorney General he’s been pushing back against the White House. California has filed roughly two dozen lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration’s efforts to make changes that affect immigrant rights, civil rights,…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Mental Health & The Opioid Crisis
Livestream will begin at 2:00pm EDT. Last month, President Trump said the country’s opioid crisis “is a national emergency.” He went on to say “we’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money” to counter opioid addiction. But, what has happened? Is money being appropriated? What is needed? On Monday., Sept .25, at 2 p.m.(NOTE :NEW TIME), in the National Press Club’s Bloomberg Room, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Co-Chair of the House’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus, will be joined by three frontline healthcare workers to discuss the opioid crisis and what they see…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Transportation Experts Envision "City of the Future"
"El Paso" Screening and Panel on Journalists Fleeing Mexico's Violence
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