About voting press club and the investigations editor in washington for the associated press. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to follow along on twitter using the hash tag npclive. In the audience were members of the general public so any applause or reactions are not necessarily from the working press. Id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all of the head table guests werere introduced. I have the president of the public news all bids and member of the Headliners Team. The former president of the National Press club and we have Eleanor Clift Political Columnist with the daily beast. H e National Reporter at the washington post, beside wesley is michael holloman, Deputy Communications director for faie fight and alex, the political reporter nbc news. Skipping over the podium, to my right is donna, president at the dc media strategy and former president of the club and cochair of the mpc Headliners Team in the skipping over th
The president pro tempore the majority leader is recognized. Majority leader is recognized. The Party Leaders recognize. I asked that they senate observed the moment of silence for Dianne Feinstein. [silence] [silence] madam president. The majority leader. Madam president , first madam president pro tim from the United States senate, earlier this morning we lost a giant in the senate. Senator Dianne Feinstein was among one of the most amazing people to ever grace the senate, whoever graced the country. She had so many amazing, wonderful qualities wrapped up in one incredible human being. She was smart. She was strong, she was brave, she was compassionate. But maybe the trait that stood out most of all was her amazing integrity. Her integrity was a diamond. Heard integrity shone like a beacon across the senate and across the country for all to see and a hopefully emulate. Dianne feinstein would typically say when you asked her how was she voting on something, let me study this issue bef
Im sorry about the presentation updates not having updated, but ill just go by my previous slides as a guide, but i did want to highlight that some of the critiques of our previous studies. So what can we learn from real world experiences . I think in medicine, we the Gold Standard for bringing in intervention for a drug to the public is a controlled human clinical trial, and that wouldnt be ethical with a tazer because its difficult to replicate the real world situations, so in lieu of that, we can perform epidemilogical studies in terms of real world use, does it result in increased sudden death . Does it result in fewer officer injuries or fewer suspect injuries, and our study in 2009 look looked at that by looking at 500,000 arrests. We did find an initial spike in sudden death after the first year. That was midgated after the first year down to 50 higher but still higher than the baseline. We found an increase in officer shootings in that first year, and we found no difference in
Political and policy consequences if republicans win the house and or the senate. We have with us one of the founders of election watch. We will look for some of you after the fact. Im going to turn it over to chris who will introduce the panelists. A couple of pieces of business. We are going to have some presentations on big picture things, the house, the senate, governors, other things. We are going to turn to your questions. For those in the room, we will take your questions at the microphones. For those viewing from afar, we have a couple of ways you can pose questions. One is through emailing nate. Moore aei. Org. I will turn it to chris and we will begin. Chris of course, never tweet, as we know. [laughter] for your own sake. But we do look forward to have your questions. You are extraordinary lucky humans because i was thinking about this today. I do not think you could have a better group of experts then this lovely group of people. When hot takes are all around us, youre in f
I am john corti a, here with chris we welcome you to election watch at the American Enterprise institute rate as many of you know and maybe some of you have experienced, election watch is the longest running election Commentary Program in washington, d. C. Starting in 1982. We had continuity, some change with election watch over the years. We have one of the founders of election watch going back that far and maybe some of you in the audience have been to every session. We look for some of you after the fact. Im going to turn to the panelists and we will get going. A couple of pieces of business. We are going to have presentations as we always do on big picture things, the house, the senate, the governor. We will have conversation. We will turn to your questions. For those in the room, we will take questions in a microphone. For those of you viewing from afar, there are a few ways you can disclose questions. One is through emailing nate. Moore aei. Org. Or, twitter with the ae ielection