The politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. National holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press team this year is our defending fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller
Own, worked up. So many people have no idea you need towork, bring us the workweek, the pensions, unions, the folks who brought us the weekend. I wanted to explain to people, unions have achieved a whole lot in american history, but now they are really in decline and have really taken it on the chin. As a result, things are considerably worse for workers than was the case 30, 40 years ago. Featured nonfiction authors this weekend and every weekend on booktv on cspan two. Fall, the this National Press club hosted a spelling bee competition between journalists and lawmakers. This event was first held in 1913 and was reestablished in 2013. [applause] you, julie. Some entertaining programming tonight. Congress has not yet delayed the spelling bee a national holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians ar
Programming tonight. Congress has not yet delayed the spelling bee a national holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press team this year is our defending fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller of politico. [applause] is
Fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller of politico. [applause] is a great lineup of fierce competitors. Lets have a round of applause ofor them, as they start to think about their spelling. Now, id like to turn the podium over to our friends from scripps, who will introduce their team and go over the rules of the competition. Hello, everyone. I am one of the eight spellers who won the 2019 Scripps National spelling bee in may. [applause] theall ourselves octochamps. [laughter] it is a great honor and privilege to be here today. I would like to thank the Scripps N
Hasnt yet declared spelling bee day a national holiday, some of our competitors are stuck at work. Are onour competition the hill for late votes. We will do things differently and have the journalists compete for their champion and when our politicians arrived, they will battle it out and the winners of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. Lets get started. Competing for the press team this year, we have our defending champion, Alexandra Petri from the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. From nr, npr, my former colleague. Oey from buzzfeed alex from the and josh from the ericngton post and finally this is a great lineup of fierce competitors select have a round of applause and now, i would like to turn to scripts and they will go over the rules of the competition. Hello, everyone. I am one of the eight spellers who won the 2019 Scripps National spelling bee i