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Club members Amanpour, Van Susteren make ‘Most Powerful Women’ list
National Press Club members Christiane Amanpour and Greta Van Susteren are featured in Forbes Magazine’s 2011 list of “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” Amanpour is ranked number 44 and Van Susteren is number 75. The Forbes list is comprised of the most influential politicians, media figures, chief excutive officers, cultural icons and entrepreneurs around the globe. Topping the list is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. "I am flattered but I am also smart enough to know that I would not be on this list if it…
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Johnson says he remains viable in GOP presidential contest
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson may be overlooked in the 2012 Republican presidental nomination race, but he's not counting himself out. "I'm on the bubble," Johnson said at an Aug. 19 National Press Club luncheon. "Out of 184 candidates declared (to run for president), I'm like ninth in the rankings." Johnson believes that next year's New Hampshire primary will make or break his campaign. He asserts that a candidate can go from "obscurity" to a major contender overnight with a win in that state. Although a Republican, Johnson acknowledges being more aligned with libertarian principles.…
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College president found herself in middle of Tahrir Square uprising
Uniformed snipers broke into the American University in Cairo building and positioned themselves on the roof during the Egyptian uprising earlier this year, the school's chief administrator told a Newsmaker audience on July 25. Protesters then forced their way in the building and tried to oust the snipers, according to Lisa Anderson, AUC president. Security personnel eventually took control of the situation, she said, adding that the university had never given government officers permission to enter the building. Anderson's office overlooks Tahrir Square, the rallying point for the…
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Bachmann won’t support debt-limit plan that fails to revamp federal spending
With the hours quickly dwindling before the U.S. House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on raising the national debt limit, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told a National Press Club audience on July 28 that she would oppose any effort to raise the debt ceiling that did not revamp U.S. spending policies. “I cannot support any plan that begins with the assumption that we have to raise the debt limit and yet doesn’t offer a fundamental restructuring of governmental spending habits. I won’t do it,” said the Minnesota congresswoman, invoking the fiscal legacy of…
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Feinstein advocates for bill to repeal federal marriage statute
Congressional momentum is building to abolish the 15-year-old Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., principal sponsor of a repeal bill, at a July 19 Newsmaker. Speaking the day before Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on DOMA and gay marriage, Feinstein said the session will climax “a landmark year in equality” for same-sex couples who have been hurt by DOMA, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The hearings follow congressional passage earlier this year of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law and last month’s decision by a federal…
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Nuke regulator to address quickly changes prompted by Japan disaster
The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told a National Press Club luncheon audience July 18 that his agency should act within 90 days on regulatory changes recommended in response to Japan's nuclear power disaster. Although urging quick action, NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko also insisted that he sees no immediate risks to the safety of nuclear power plants in the United States. A six-member task force appointed by the regulator after the crisis in Fukushima, Japan, caused by an earthquake and tsunami proposed a dozen changes last week designed to improve what it sees as a patchwork…
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Taiwan's information minister emphasizes economics in cross-strait relations
Improvements in cross-strait relations between the Taiwan and mainland China should focus on economic issues before political ones, Philip Y.M. Yang said at a July 15 Newsmaker. Yang, Taiwan’s minister of government information since May, is the spokesman for Taiwan overseas and for Taiwan’s cabinet domestically. Improved cross-strait relations gives Taiwan a “peace dividend” and affords the country greater opportunities in such areas as economic cooperation and combating crime, Yang said. From the standpoint of Taiwan’s interests, improved relations is a win-win strategy, he added. The “tone…
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Armstrong, Huffington see thousands more citizen journalists covering local news
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group, described at a July 15 sell-out luncheon a media world embracing thousands more citizen journalists covering neighborhoods not only across America but also across the world. At the same time, they emphasized the continued key role of professional journalists. Armstrong said that journalists should be more transparent to their readers. "We need to know what they believe, what are their religious views before they write," Armstrong said. "We need journalists who will go for the truth."…
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Hockey title to come "one day", Caps owner Leonsis tells NPC audience
For frustrated Washington sports fans who haven’t experienced a championship by one of the city’s professional sports franchises in two decades, an end to the long drought may be in sight, Washington Capitals principal owner Ted Leonsis told a National Press Club Luncheon July 13. Although he stopped short of predicting a championship next season, “our belief is that if we continue to make the playoffs, one of these days it’ll be us” who wins the Stanley Cup, hockey’s ultimate prize, Leonsis said. In each of the last two seasons, the Capitals made the National Hockey League playoffs but…
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Rep. Barney Frank says financial reform "holding up very well"
Implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law is stalled by lack of funding from Congressional Republicans as it approaches its one-year anniversary, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said at a July 11 Newsmaker, Frank., ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said the GOP has not made a frontal assault on Dodd-Frank because doing so would be politically dangerous in the aftermath of the financial crisis. “It is still too popular,” Frank said. “I am struck, at least in public, how little advocacy there has been for substantial changes.” The bill is “holding up very well…
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