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Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with Al Jazeera Media Network network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Pre...

Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend t...

Well, welcome senator dick durbin to the committee on oversight and reform, subcommittee on economic and consumer policy. My favorite senior senator from my home state of illinois. He needs no introduction on the advocacy is valiant youth on smoking among and to combat smoking in general. On the author of the ban america, flights in which came into being in 1990, 29 years ago, when he was a member of this house. And at that time, powerful interests in the Tobacco Industry fought his efforts to put this law into place. But now we know the Tremendous Positive impact of that law. And we have sena...

If you dont have an environment thats attracting that, i dont know how you define it as sustainable. And so we have, mccs leveraged, i think, 5. 6 billion in private sector dollars into our projects over the course of our history, weve been in 37 countries with about 29 contracts, about 14 billion of development assistance, benefiting about 200 million beneficiaries. And the private sectors a huge piece of that. For example, in malawi, the state utility just entered a 20year power purchasing agreement with jcm capital to develop a commercialscale solar power plant, which is a great thing becau...

Mark also worked with ben cramer on joe dimaggio, published in 2000. Since 1989, he produced, directed, and has written many awardwinning programs for pbs spanning a rich friday of subjects such as battle of the bulge, the pilgrimage of jesse theon, mount rushmore, Transcontinental Railroad, and jesse james. He has received the dupont columbia award, the George Foster peabody award, the Writers Guild award, and the prize from the japan foundation. Was producer and writer for the four hour pbs history of the United States supreme court, which was awarded the International Documentary associatio...