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Please Welcome 33 New NPC Members
The Board of Governors approved 33 new member applications Monday, bringing to 191 the total so far this year, compared to 155 for the same period last year.The new members are: ActiveLigia Hougland - Terra Networks – Brazil, Correspondent; Hiroshi Ito - The Asahi Shimbun, Political Correspondent; Toshihiko Katsuda - The Asahi Shimbun, Political Correspondent; Bob Keefe - Atlanta Journal Constitution, Washington Correspondent; Hirotsugu Mochizuki - The Asahi Shimbun, Staff Writer; Yusuke Murayama - The Asahi Shimbun, Correspondent; Toshihiko Ogata - The Asahi Shimbun, Political Correspondent…
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Peterson Institute Director Warns of Trade Imbalances
C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, issued a dire warning May 19 that the U.S. trade and deficit imbalances, which he said underpinned the current economic crisis, could contribute to future crises if not corrected. He spoke at Biz Breakfast meeting at the Club. He said that the U.S. trade deficit, financed by inflow of capital from trade surplus countries, laid the groundwork for the crisis by enabling looser monetary policy and lower interest rates than would otherwise have occurred. This condition, he added, not only made it “easy to make…
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Transportation Sec'y Gives Thumbs-Down to Gas Tax Hike
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's penchant for off-the-cuff bantering with the press shined through at a packed NPC luncheon May 21, eliciting more laughs than customary for a Cabinet official. When asked to comment on the controversy surrounding a recent DOT nomination, he challenged the questioner to reveal himself. "You think I'm going to discuss personnel matters at the National Press Club? Raise your hand if you asked that question." His two-word response to whether raising the vehicle mileage tax was still on the table -- an issue that got him in hot water with President Obama just…
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Club Members Epstein & Nordland Win Deadline Club Awards
National Press Club members Keith Epstein of BusinessWeek and Rod Nordland of Newsweek.com are among the 2009 winners in the Deadline Club's journalism competition. The New York city-based Deadline Club is one of the larger Society of Professional Journalists chapters in the nation. Epstein shared the business news award with colleagues for "Cyberwar" stories focusing the vulnerability of the nation's computer networks to successful attacks by thieves, spies and terrorists. The stories examined seemingly unrelated online security breaches at several federal agencies that revealed wider…
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Edwards Gets Strength from Friends, Strangers
Elizabeth Edwards gets her strength from other people, friends and strangers alike, who have been her "safety net,"she said at a discussion Thursday of her book, "Reslience." However, she said, in the end people must "find the strength in yourself" to ovecome the obstacles that life throws in your path. Edwards, the wife of former Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, writes about her husband's infidelity, her battle with cancer and the death of her son Wade. She discussed "Resilience" before a crowd of more than 300. The NPC event was held at the Willard Hotel. She said in the face…
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Cancer Survivor Offers Cancer Policy Ideas
After navigating a 2,600-mile sailboat journey from Mexico to Alaska in2008 following a successful battle against a lethal form of cancer, DickDrechsler is embarking on a trek that won’t cover as much geographybut could be just as challenging. Drechsler introduced a six-point plan for improving federal cancerpolicy at a May 27 Newsmaker. He is launching a grass-roots campaign togarner support in the Obama administration and on Capitol Hill. He’ll beone of a multitude of advocates trying to grab part of the health carereform spotlight. Ranking behind only heart disease as an annual killer,…
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Cheney Wants CIA Interrogation Memos Declassified
Refusal to declassify CIA memos about its interrogation practices involving detainee is "foolish ... deeply unfair and sets a dangerous precedent," former Vice President Dick Cheney said at an NPC luncheon Monday.He said President Obama "has the authority to declassify anything he wants to. I hope he will. It needs to be out there (and) would serve a public purpose and enlighten the debate." As he has several times in the past, Cheney attended and spoke at a luncheon to honor the recipients of the Gerald R. Ford annual prizes for distinguished reporting on national defense and the White…
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Mary Tyler Moore Raises the Curtain on Diabetes
Mary Tyler Moore, who turned the world on with her smile in the popular 1970’s sitcom about a ratings-challenged Minneapolis TV newstation, addressed a Thursday Press Club Luncheon about a more serious, and personal, matter: her decades-long fight with diabetes. Moore, who chronicled her battle in a just-published book, “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes,” is also international chairwoman for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She has become, she says, “an icon, to help them build awareness about the threat to life that diabetes represents.” She will give Senate…
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Education Secretary Ties Stimulus Spending to Reform
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan used a featured Club speech on May 29 to link the nation’s economic and educational woes to what he called a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity for progress. “We have some real resources, $100 billion, to invest in education,” he said, while emphasizing that money is only part of the plan. “With unprecedented resources, we need unprecedented reform.” Duncan had been CEO of Chicago’s public school system since 2001 before his nomination by President Obama to run the education department. Duncan called for dramatic changes in educational systems at all…
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Daschle, Leavitt Spar Over Health Care Reform
Two prominent veterans of past health care reform efforts expressed doubt that a comprehensive bill will be approved by Congress this year at a June 2 Newsmaker that filled the Press Club ballroom. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt discussed--and sometimes sparred over--the prospects for reform in a session moderated by Mark McClellan, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “I think there’s only a 50-50 chance that something is going to pass,” Daschle told an audience of about 175. One key…
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