Please put your phones on silent. Back in the day we used to tell them to turn them off but we want them on silent because would like you if you would be so inclined to live tweet this event. Is pound and pc life. We can follow that online. We would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phone in turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our head table. Would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced and then you can erupt in a rapturous applause. We have starting from my left and youre right, mark heller. Hes an agricultural reporter. Paul marion, senior white house correspondent. Tamara harlingen at the atlanta journalconstitution. Sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. Philip, senior editor. Steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. Thats the number two for sonny perdue. We have betsy martin, executive and American University cochair. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have abby livingston, Was
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the National Press clubs Morning Newsmaker Program here in washington, d. C. Todays topic is preventing youth sports concussion and what washington, d. C. , is doing about it. One of the first major metro areas in the region to provide a grant for research, education and monitoring of concussions in youth sports. And were also here to talk about other youth sports injury. This newsmaker panel will offer an examination of data, trends and concussion research, state policies and whether or not the u. S. Department of education should adopt federal compliance mandates. Every state in the union has a concussionrelated law on the books and a sports and youth Injury Program regulation on the books. Enforcement is the issue, and compliance is the issue, and thats what the doctors here this morning and the sports data person is going to be talking to us about. My name is mike smith, and i serve on the National Press Club Newsmaker committee, and the comm
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And i want to thank everyone for coming today. My name is jamie horwitz, member of the National Press club and the newsmaker committee. On behalf of the club and committee, i want to thank you for joining us for this very special newsmaker, an unprecedented newsmaker. We will hear from two federal Immigration Judges this morning. Before i introduce our guest, i want to take care of a little housekeeping. We have usual rules. For this particular newsmaker we have unusual rules. To questions each. Members of the press club and any credentialed journalists may ask questions. You identify yourself and any News Organization and will recognize you if you have a question. I shouldrules say that our guests, although both are federal judges, they are here in the capacity as leaders of the National Association of Immigration Judges, affiliate of the National Federation of affiliates and technical engineers, the union that represents not just Immigration Judges but other judges like administrativ