Some behind the scenes perspective of the correspondent dinner. Ask for joining us on this friday edition of washington journal. Enjoy the rest of your day and a terrific weekend. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] the Labor Department releasing the april jobs numbers this morning showing employers adding 288,000 jobs last month, the most in two years. The unappointed rate also dropped to its lowest level since 2008 26. 3 , down from 6. 7 . John thune tweeting Labor Participation force dropped by nearly as much as south dakotas entire population. The senate and house are out today, returning next week. In the house, they would take up legislation to increase the business R D Research Development tax credit. Voteull chamber will also on whether to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress for invoking her fifth amendment rights and refusing to testify before congress. The Senate Next Week be
Of it. We have had the Supreme Court rulings, but the federal Election Commission has issued regulations that basically have narrowed disclosure to a level that is almost absurdly impossible to meet. People giving money specifically for an advertisement. I know that you see it as a vote best the federal Election Commission. Youre a very litigious guy. And repeated instances you have and judges have rebuffed those regulations. But in this particular case the District Court judges so and then the panel of the d. C. Circuit sent it back. Did you talk for just a couple of minutes about the destruction of the federal Election Commission and its role in the problems that we had but also the state of play in that particular and let me start with the latter. You are right best, we essentially won the case at the District Court level. On appeal the court actually found against us in part but then sent the case back to the federal District Court level to look at the other piece of the case. In f
Today pushed the Dow Jones Industrial average into positive territory for the year, up by a fraction but still on the plus side. But words of warning after the close from one of those dow stocks could temper the tone of trading tomorrow. Cisco systems is the closely watched tech bellwether company and on its earnings conference call, the ceo issued disappointing Earnings Guidance and announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs. As for its quarterly results, the computer networking equipment maker posted earnings of 55 cents a share, two cents more than estimates and revenues came in better than expected even though they were basically flat from a year ago as the Company Faces tough demand for its new line of highend switches and routers. Cisco shares initially rose but then reversed course on those comments from the conference call. Cisco along with several other u. S. Tech giants has always looked at china for feature growth but now doing business with beijing is becoming more difficult and one
As well as working journalist who is are club members. To hear applause in our audience i note to members of the general public are attending so not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. I would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter, using hashtag, npclunch. After our guests speech concludes well have a question and answer period. I will ask as many as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our head table guests. I would like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i complete announcing everybody at the head table. From your right, gil klein, journalism professor, american universitys Washington Semester Program a past npc president and chair of the clubs history and heritage committee. Janice law, former print journalist and criminal court judge and founder of the american women writers national museum. Ambassador sell la, roosevelt, the United States chie
Fathers. Virtually every field. Pioneers of the future are developing new technologies am a new science new solutions, new products, new ideas. Currenteakthroughs are in the private sector, nonprofit sector, and in government. They are going to continue and accelerate. Just as the Founding Fathers had to think through the relationship between organized citizens, so we have to think through the relationship between organized public effort and the technologies which are revolutionizing our lives. My recent book outlines the scale of change has occurred around us and begins to imagine a new 21stcentury model of government that takes advantage of this emerging world. Our current federal bureaucracy is trapped in the late 19th century. Bureaucracy is largely an intellectual pattern developed at the same time as the manual typewriter. They were the clerical requirements of carbon paper which led to a pentagon of enormous scale. 17 miles of hallways, 6. 6 million square feet, and extraordinar