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Officials, victims call human sex trafficking, a huge issue in the United States
Human sex trafficking has become a problem for large, urban counties in the United States. It is not just an international issue but a domestic one, which needs to be prioritized, officials and victims of sex trafficking, said at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference on April 29. Jessica M., 29, works with the Los Angeles County Probation Department. She mentors commercially sexually-exploited youth and hopes to become a probation officer. Jessica's struggles began at the age of 11. She was raped, beaten and abused by a number of men including the dean of her school when she only…
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Update-1: NPC member Susan Page discusses significance of Club's all-female leadership team
For the first time in National Press Club history, its leadership team is all-female, with President Lisa Nicole Matthews, Vice President Jen Judson, Secretary Gillian Rich, Treasurer Eileen O'Reilly and Membership Secretary Emily Wilkins at the helm. Susan Page is the Washington bureau chief for USA Today. In the latest episode of Update-1, the Club's podcast, Club Broadcast/Podcast Team member Shannon Fisher speaks with USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, a longtime Club member who has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and the Gridiron Club.…
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Experts say Egyptian democracy possible but unlikely in current political climate
A panel of experts in Middle East policy said democracy is still possible, but unlikely in the current political climage, at a National Press Club's Newsmakers conference on Sept. 27. Panelists said the military leadership continues to lead the country down a path toward instability, violence and economic upheaval. Michelle Dunne of the Atlantic Council believes the US missed opportunities to promote participatory democracy in the country. According to her, the US has always stayed close to whomever is in power, whether it be Mubarak, the military, the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, or back to…
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Sheinin presents RGIII book
Dave Sheinin, sports reporter for The Washington Post, presented his book on Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, "RGIII, The Promise," at the National Press Club Aug. 21. The book project began as a biography of a talented, intelligent man who is both an academic and sports achiever with a magnetic personality, but the story “changed directions in a big way,” said the author, when RGIII suffered a knee injury while playing at the end of last football season. The book is many other things, though “...also about the culture of violence in football and where Robert fit into that.” “The knee…
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Financial experts blame politics for inadequate economic policies
A panel of financial experts blamed Congressional politics for inadequate policies addressing the underperforming U.S. economy at an Aug. 21 National Press Club Newsmaker. Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive and chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., said "the economy is driving in second gear...when this car is capable of being driven in third, fourth or even fifth gear." A better performance is technically, but not politically, possible, he said. Sheila Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and John Taylor, professor of economics at Stanford…
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NPC celebrates courage of whistle blowers at Awards Night
The National Press Club celebrated courage to tell the truth in adverse circumstances Tuesday when it bestowed the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards on the "Whistle-blower" and a Turkish journalist who has been jailed for reporting on controversial topics. The domestic award recognizing the "Whistle-blower" honored an entire group of people, named and unnamed, who brave personal repercussions to expose wrongdoing. It is the first time the Club has honored a group of people, rather than an individual, with this award. Some whistle-blowers are more controversial than others, but their ability…
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Texas' Sen. Davis willing to filibuster, take on critics to stand up for families, education
"Texas isn’t listening to families,” Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis told a National Press Club audience Monday. Davis, who filibustered in the Texas Senate for more than 10 hours to block Senate Bill 5, legislation that would have created more restrictions on abortion regulations in Texas, said her actions were meant to draw attention to the disconnect between state leaders and Texas families who struggle with lack of health insurance and poorly funded public education. Davis said the filibuster enabled her to “be a voice for people who could not speak for themselves,” and fueled discussions…
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‘Hello D.C.!’ Voice of ‘Yakko Warner’ entertains Press Club
Daytime Emmy Award-winning voice actor Rob Paulsen told the National Press Club Aug. 1 that “with all due respect to Lou Gehrig, I am the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” “I was very fortunate. I think you are looking at a lottery winner,” Paulsen said. “I get paid to do things that used to get me in trouble in the seventh grade.” Paulsen entered the room with a Loud “Hello D.C.!” in the voice of Yakko Warner and the enthusiastic crowd went wild. Yakko is a character on Animaniacs, the show that changed Paulsen’s life, he said. “If (Teenage Mutant Ninja) Turtles changed my career, and…
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International chefs meet Obama, serve 200 disadvantaged people, eat lunch in Amish barn
White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford told a National Press Club Newsmaker audience Aug. 1 that 20 top chefs would experience American diversity on a week-long visit to the United States. The chefs, who work for heads of states around the world, prepared a charity lunch for 200 disadvantaged people in New York, ate a barn lunch prepared by Amish people in Lancaster, Pa., and visited restaurants reflecting Irish and Spanish cuisines, she said. In New York, the visitors also met UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon. Because the chefs "are clamoring for a great American hamburger," one will…
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Rep. Fudge addresses the state of African-American women in America
Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, a third-term representative and the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus,defined the state of the African-American woman in America today as a source of “provocation, misunderstanding, and misinterpretation,” at a National Press Club Newsmaker Aug. 1. Fudge was invoking Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, who explained the "twin jeopardies of race and sex" facing black women during a 1974 University of Missouri national conference on black women. Fudge, a political veteran, said African-American women in America today routinely…
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