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Bailout in rearview mirror, GM set to invest $1.3 billion in U.S. plants
Outgoing General Motors Chairman and chief executive Dan Akerson, speaking at a Dec. 16 National Press Club luncheon a week after the federal government officially ended its five-year bailout of the auto industry by selling its last remaining GM shares, said the now-profitable company is only in the “early chapters our comeback story.” “We still have a lot to prove,” he said. As part of that proof, Akerson announced that GM will invest $1.3 billion in five of its U.S. manufacturing plants. The commitment, which he said will create or maintain more than 1,100 jobs, boosts the four-year total…
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Belkind brings global focus to National Press Club presidency
Myron Belkind, who worked as a foreign correspondent for four decades of his journalism career, wants to give the National Press Club a more global focus. Belkind will have a chance to implement his vision as the Club’s 107th president, a post he won in the organization’s Dec. 13 election. He will assume the office at the Jan. 17 Club general membership meeting and will be inaugurated at a Jan. 25 gala dinner, which this year will have an international theme. The former Associated Press bureau chief in Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, London and Tokyo returned to the United States in 2004 and soon…
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Invest Mongolia provides opportunities, seeks prosperity
Invest Mongolia, the Mongolian government’s new effort to attract foreign investment, will create a win-win situation for the country and investors, said Mongolian Cabinet Minister Saikhanbileg Chimed at a Dec. 9 National Press Club Newsmaker event. Part of this effort includes the approval in October of the Mongolian Investment Legislation. This new law ends different rules for domestic and foreign private investors and provides investors with political and legal stability. Mongolia seeks to diversify and sustain its economy, fight corruption and establish a sovereign-wealth fund,…
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Report will serve as roadmap to improved healthcare delivery
The 2013 report from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange “will serve as a new road map to the future and lead to improved healthcare delivery,” said Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health and human services, at a Dec. 5 National Press Club Newsmaker event announcing the release of the 2013 WEDI report. The report arises from a collaboration between the public and private sectors and places the patient in the center of healthcare, Sullivan said. He founded WEDI and served as honorary chair of the 2013 WEDI Report Executive Steering Committee. A group of 10 healthcare-…
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Openly gay mayor tells NPC Luncheon being the best mayor is the best thing she can do
While Annise Parker is one of the first openly gay mayors in a major American city, the Houston mayor shied away from her status as a leading Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender -- LGBT -- figure during her appearance at a National Press Club Luncheon Dec. 10. “The best thing I can do for the LGBT community, for my community, is to be the best mayor I can possibly be, to conduct myself with dignity and honor in all aspects,” Parker said. Parker, who is currently serving her third and final term as mayor, emphasized the reality of her position, explaining that while she would love to see…
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National Press Club Statement On Nelson Mandela
The following statement on Nelson Mandela was issued by Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club. "The National Press Club expresses its deepest condolences to the family of Nelson Mandela and to the people of South Africa. Mr. Mandela spoke twice at the National Press Club, once at as the leader of the African National Congress shortly after his release in 1991, and then as President of South Africa in 1994. For many people in Washington these events were their first opportunities to see and hear Mandela speak and they say it is something they will never forget. His…
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Former Vice President Cheney, cardiologist describe health crisis journey at Book Rap
Former Vice President Richard Cheney and Dr. Jonathan Reiner presented their book on Cheney’s health, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, to a packed audience at the National Press Club on Dec 3. Reiner described how “seemingly, every time (Cheney) had a medical event that … might stop his career or stop his life, medicine had an answer for it.” In each case, there was a medical answer and “the vice president used that medical event to not just survive the event but to thrive,” he emphasized. “The vice president didn't just survive these events, every time he had an event, he took a job of…
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FBI agents discuss sequestration budget cuts, furlough impacts at Press Club Newsmaker
The National Executive Board of the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) spoke on the impact of current budget cuts on the daily operations of the FBI, and other concerns associated with future cuts and furloughs at a Dec. 4 National Press Club Newsmaker event. The FBI “took some pretty big cuts” that affected active investigations in 2013 and is “going forward on 2014 looking down the barrel of a $700 million cut” to the Bureau’s budget, said Reynaldo Tariche, association president and an active agent in the New York Field Office. The sequestration budget cuts would affect some “mission-critical…
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Colombian president describes FARC peace talks, economic agenda at Press Club event
Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, laid out his agenda to advance his country's economic, political and social transformation during an appearance at the National Press Club on Dec. 3. Santos spoke in detail about his historic, and controversial, peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as FARC, and other rebel groups that had been at war with the government for nearly a half century. Counterterrorism efforts supported by the United States' Plan Colombia program beginning in 2000 and years of military victories had weakened the rebels and removed key…
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Lynch Award honors regional coverage of Congress
National Press Club members who cover Congress should take note of an upcoming contest deadline for the David Lynch Memorial Regional Reporting Award. The deadline is Dec. 10 at 5 p.m. The award is given to Washington-based news reporters who cover Congress with an eye toward explaining coverage for a regional audience. The competition is open to any reporter for a daily newspaper, online publication or wire service who qualifies for membership in the Congressional Press Galleries. The award is administered by the Washington Press Club Foundation and the Standing Committee of Correspondents…
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