Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealing with the lawsuit and others on visitors logs. Theres been a lot of changes during the course of the administration. What i hope we will talk about today is wouldve occurred or not occur during the last four years am looking forward to what will happen over the next. I am joined by three experts. I have on my right, anne weisberg. I have sent through the Data Transparency Coalition and a former hill staffer. To my last is Josh Gerstein with politico. Theres more extensive biographies on your ch
Good afternoon, and welcome, myron. E is the National Press club is a leading professional organisation for journalists committed to our professional events such as this. For more information about the National Press club please our website at press. Org. On the halfhour members worldwide i would like to welcome our speaker. Our head table includes guests of ours speaker as well as who are Journalists Club members. I would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences, you can follow the action on twitter. After our guest speech concludes we will have a period and d answer will ask as many questions as time permits. I would each of you like to stand briefly as your name is announced. Quinn woodward, christel cant a Athletic Director at texas university. Laurence denzil, of the amrick, chairman committee. Amy morris, 99. 1 fm. Anna miller, health and use report. A year ago scott received a fouryear contract extension as ceo of the Us Olympic Committee since he had from 2010.
A question about is this ebola arus the proof we need national one Payer Health Care system . We just saw what happened in texas with this capitalistic Health Care System. Us its going to cost millions and millions to clean that mess up. Andt regarding ebola hospitals not being ready, you had a guest on 89 years ago. I forget the authors name. She wrote a book called pandemic. How areto our hospitals were unprepared. We had a shortage of doctors and nurses. All. Ook said it we were not ready then and we are not ready now. You should have her back on again. Continue to let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Or send us ail us tweet. The cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. An article today in the national journal. Charlie cook reporting on how kansas and georgia could change the equation in the u. S. Senate with computer models that show republicans with a big advantage in georgia, except in the senate race which is looking like a tossup
Angeles and san dieg as tom scherrwood reports, local organizers believe our region is more than equipped to handle it. Reporter from a recr washingtons deanwoo possible olympic sta side of rfk. To long bridge park that could hold an oly aquatic center, a re for the 2024 summer olympics is ramping up. You sound like youre pretty enthusiastic. I am. Im sportsman from way back. Reporter the arlington board member says a wellrun olympics could benefit the entire region. Reporter can it come together for this . Hey, theres competition everywhere. But what better way to unite the region . Virginia, maryland, d. C. Reporter but some citizens worry about the cost and the crowding. I think were too crowded already. Reporter ohoh. Lobbier. Others say bring it on. To have all the countries actually come here, i think that would be amazing. Reporter what do you think . I think its going to be one of the greatest things ever. They can come and do the olympics here. Reporter as far as entert you mi
Are in. Its a terrible bill. It is a terrible bill. The league of conservation voters called it a radical attempt to destroy safety and environmental regulation. Right now we are in need of putting whole new regulations in place to count ter ebola crisis. The bill she supports would sthaubt to a vote in congress. If you think congress is working, great, you should listen to her on this. Its a way to let the most radical people in congress veto l kind of progress on safety and health that keep your food safe and allow us to respond to crisis like the ebola epidemic. Its a radical attempt. I passed a bill with chris gibson to stop this energy price hike and we got it passed through the house that. Is more than anyone has ever done on this. We started from behind because she left a mess and we are trying to clean it up and we are going to win this thing. Lets move on to Foreign Policy specifically in the middle east. We are engaging in air strikes in iraq and syria to combat the Islamic S