System. [inaudible conversation] good afternoon ladies and german. For those of you who are just tuning in in our Television Audience and our public Radio Audience and the internet, welcome to the National Press club worsens 1908 we have been the embodiment of the constitution. Before we get started i want to remind our guests in the audience, if you have a phone, please put it on vibrate because we know you want to tweet. We want you to follow the action, and so on twitter you can follow us at rest club d. C. Using and pc live. I want to introduce the head table. As i introduce each of you, please stand and i will briefly, as your name is announced, it will be from my left and youre right. Senior reporter at med tech insight and the treasurer of the National Press club. Michelle, desk editor at the Associated Press and the membership secretary of the National Press club. Sally sues men, executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at pfizer. Donna, breaking news editor at usa today a
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The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. March 27, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable jeff denham to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. Pursuant to clause 12a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2 00 p. M. Today. All heartwrenching and even now impossible to forget. Agriculture secretary nominee, sonny perdue. Farmers are really struggling to be profitable. Hold on. Many times even the best farmers are not able to produce a product even with the best production capability they may have. I think trade is really the answer. Msnbc Chris Matthews at the First Amendment awards dinner. The truth contained in hard news, the truth that arrives on the front page or straight news broadcast. Thats what con
House. You have been focused on Defense Budget. I wonder with what you saw from that debate how you feel about how were going to move ahead with the Defense Budget talks and whether or not there is any chance to avoid a Government Shutdown at this point. Seems like were at a point where nothings going to move in the house. Congressman smith its going to be very difficult. I theorized a couple months ago that the republicans do not have 218 republican votes for anything substantive. As paul ryan acknowledged yesterday, they have been sort of the opposition party. They have been the party of no. They are angry and they are against everything. Getting 218 of them to agree on anything, i dont picture it. Whether its health care, tax reform. Look at the budget. The Freedom Caucus is going to be upset that it doesnt balance the budget in i dont know, two years, three years. Other people, other republicans are going to be upset about programs that get cut. You are going to have republicans wh
Advi advising congress on using data and technology to address data, cyber skwurt security and campaigns. What do you do . I help with outreach to technology communities. What is your stand on that position . My career has been at the Cross Section of the private sector and capitol hill patience particularly in leadership and in the political space. I like to see it is a diagram of winning campaigns, trying to improve government and getting tech shots every now and again. Host what is your trade . Guest i trained in Computer Science and old school coding. I was pretty good at actual script which is a debunk language now. And do communication marketing. Host before we get into what you do and why you here, how important today is tech to a campaign . Guest well, i would say it has become core competency much like it touches every aspect of the campaign. It can not stress enough to how important it is to winning an election. The higher stage the election gets the more important that becom