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Don't forget! Lunch buffet has returned on Wednesdays in Reliable Source
The National Press Club's popular lunch buffet, which had been on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic precautions, has returned to service on Wednesdays in the Reliable Source restaurant. Once again the members' restaurant on the 14th floor is offering an all-you-can eat hot lunch buffet, for now one day a week, in addition to the a la carte menu. You can explore this page to learn about the regular menu offerings. The restaurant is open five days a week for lunch, and for dinner Wednesday through Friday evenings. But Wednesday is the only day the lunch buffet is operating. The price of the…
Type: News
Photos: NPC Luncheon with Gary Gensler
SEC Chair Gary Gensler addressed artificial intelligence and securities regulation at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on July 17, 2023.
Type: Media
Originally scheduled Karaoke Night July 28 has been canceled
Karaoke, nope: the Friday, July 28, Karaoke Night in the Cosgrove Lounge has been canceled. We wanted you to know so that you can make other plans, such as just joining the regular Taco Night in the Reliable Source that evening instead, starting at 5:30 p.m.
Type: News
He said new regulations or “macro-prudential policy interventions” may be required. These are now being developed by SEC staff, Gensler said, and will be subject to public comment later this year. Gensler was appointed SEC chairman by President Joe Biden in early 2021 after a long career as a partner in the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm and later a professor of global economics and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a senior adviser in several
Democratic presidential campaigns and to the party’s candidates for governor of Maryland. On the SEC Gensler leads a three-member Democratic majority that often splits with the agency’s two Republican appointees. In response to a question, Gensler repeated his criticism that the crypto-currency field is “rife with fraud and abuse.” He said he was “disappointed” with a federal district court ruling last week that the SEC did not have authority to regulate some crypto-currency activities. He said the agency has not yet decided whether to appeal. Gensler said the SEC is moving ahead with…
SEC chairman says AI technology needs guardrails to avoid steering economy into a financial crisis
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, warned Monday, July 17, that the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence by stock exchanges and other financial markets may create dangerous conflicts of interest and instability even as it promotes efficiency and cuts costs. Speaking at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon, Gensler, who has pushed to extend SEC rules to the new technology, said AI may well “heighten financial fragility” by promoting herd behavior “with individual actors making similar decisions because they are getting the same signal from a base…
Type: News
National Guard Chief Hokanson to speak at Headliners Newsmaker, 10 am Thursday
Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak and take questions at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, July 27, at 10 a.m. Hokanson's remarks will focus on how the 30-year-old State Partnership Program between Ukraine and the California National Guard created such close military ties that Ukrainians exchanged urgent phone calls between Kyiv and California in the opening hours of the Russian invasion and how the Guard’s global impact animates the National Defense Strategy. The all-volunteer force…
Type: News
Risks & Dangers of HR1369
One Korea Network (OKN) & the Korea-US Alliance Foundation USA (KUSAF-USA) Press Conference: Risks & Dangers of HR1369, the "Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act" Wednesday, July 26, 11am Zenger Room This Press Conference will highlight the Campaign led by OKN along with KUSAF-USA for ‘REAL’ Peace on the Korean Peninsula and to counter the ‘fake peace’ initiative led by pro-North Korean and leftist supporters of H.R. 1369, the “Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act.” The Press Conference will feature remarks from members of Congress; select authors who contributed to OKN’s book, “The Quest…
Type: Event
Update-1: Virginia death row chaplain recounts what he saw
The Rev. Russ Ford witnessed 28 executions during his time as chaplain for Virginia’s death row. The experience challenged his own faith but also demonstrated the potential for spiritual growth among the most hardened criminals. Ford’s new book, “Crossing The River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain,” is a moving work of reportage. Ford and co-author Dr. Todd Peppers discuss the book with NPC Broadcast/Podcast Team member Tom Young in the latest edition of Update-1. This podcast contains graphic descriptions of electrocution and other aspects of prison life. Listener discretion is…
Type: News