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NPC Newsmaker on The Federal Budget
NPC Headliners Team: Group Meeting
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NPC Newsmaker with Mexican Presidential Contender Lopez Obrador
Mexico is gearing up for a presidential election in June 2018 and the leading contender in a crowded field, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the founder of Mexico´s new leftist Morena Party (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional-National Regeneration Party) will speak at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Wed., March 15, at 1 p.m. He will address a number of timely topics including his opposition to President Trump’s immigration policies and plans to build a border wall. The press conference will take place in the club’s Lisagor Room. López Obrador, also popularly known as AMLO, served as mayor of…
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NPC Newsmaker with Actors' Equity President Kate Shindle
President Donald Trump has called for deep cuts in domestic programs to fund a proposed $54 billion increase in defense spending and $10 billion for a border wall with Mexico. Some in the Congress and the administration have said that those cuts should include defunding the National Endowment for the Arts and its $149 million annual budget. Kate Shindle, President of the Actors’ Equity Association, representing 50,000 stage actors and stage managers across the nation, says NEA grants not only create jobs in the theatre but foster jobs in restaurants and hospitality, retail and transportation…
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NPC Newsmaker with Democratic Congressional Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
A day before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer will offer a prebuttal to the President’s speech at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 2 p.m., Mon., Feb. 27, in the Club’s First Amendment Lounge. National Press Club President Jeff Ballou will serve as the moderator.Pelosi has led the House Democrats since 2003 and was the first woman elected to be Speaker of the House; Schumer became Democratic leader in January with the retirement of Sen. Harry Reid.The two top Democrats have supported…
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National Commander of the American Legion Charles E. Schmidt
Charles E. Schmidt, 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 Newsmaker news conference, 10 a.m., Wed., Feb. 22 in the club’s Bloomberg Room. On March 1 Schmidt will testify before a joint session of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs. He also is expected to meet with the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin during his visit to Washington. Schmidt,…
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NPC Speakers News Conference with Rick Santorum, Republican Presidential Candidate
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will speak at a National Press Club event sponsored by the NPC Speakers Committee on Thursday, Aug. 20. The event will begin at 11 a.m. Santorum a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, is one of 17 Republicans seeking their party's 2016 nomination. The format for Santorum's appearance will be that of a Club Luncheon, in which he will have an hour to speak and field questions asked by Club President John Hughes from cards submitted by the audience. But there will be no lunch served and no members' reception. The event is open to Club members…
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Will the Supreme Court End Affirmative Action?
NPC Breakfast with Jane Chu, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
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Iran Deal Verification Problems
NPC Travel Committee
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How the African Growth and Opportunity Act Benefits Both Africa and the United States
Will NSA Surveillance Reform Protect Public?
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Jason Rezaian Case
One year ago, on July 22, 2014, Iranian Security Forces swarmed Jason Rezaian’s home with no warning and took him to prison where he was held without charges. For months he was interrogated and kept in solitary confinement with inadequate medical care and no access to a lawyer. Jason has been held in Iranian prison for nearly a year – three times longer than any other Western journalist. Jason was not allowed to select his own attorney or see his case file. His lawyer is forbidden to discuss the case and has only been allowed to meet briefly with Jason to review the case. The trial session…
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