There are growing questions about the strength and the direction of our economy. Uncertainty stemming from the u. S. China trade tensions, various International Hot spots, the softening Global Economy and warning signs of the bond markets are making people nervous. When people get nervous they sit on their money. A lot of companies are sitting on their cash resulting in the first decline in Business Investment in three years. Individual investments are doing the same thing. The Business Community is calling on leaders in washington to make smart policy choices that will restore certainty or confidence, not just undermine it. Here are three quick things that could make a positivedi difference. Resolvingg the trade tensions with china is critical to restoring business certainty and keeping our economy on track. We sent the business delegation to beijing prior to the administrations announcement that it wouldst delay the last round for a few weeks. It is a tradition that we have been foll
News, and i am the 111th president of the National Press club. Before we get started, i would like to ask you to please silence your cell phones. If you are on twitter, tweet during the program. Npclive. The cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that the generalare from public. Any reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. And now, i would like to audience, please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. Starting from your right, we have lisa matthews, the video assignment manager for the associated press. She is cochair of the headliners team. We have sarah, who is the Congressional Correspondent at the l. A. Times. We have dan friedman, correspondent in the Washington Bureau of hearst newspapers. Coming in from this side, we have ellen ferguson, reporter at cq roll call and a member of the press club. Maureen, who is the washington correspondent at usa today. We have philip, Senior Editor at agro pulse. We have Betsy Fischer martin, execut
You can also watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Craigslist found per Craig Newmark founder craig new mark recently donated 20 million to markup, a new nonprofit Journalism Organization aimed at understanding the impact of technology on society. From the National Press club, this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] of the National Press club. We are so pleased to welcome todays headliner, Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark philanthropies which has supported a host of causes, especially journalism, veterans issues, women in technology and voter protection. Before we begin, i would like to, please, ask you, silence your cell phones if you havent already. And if youre tweeting today, we are press club dc, and the hashtag for todays event is npc live. I would like to also introduce our head table guests. Please hold your applause until be everyone has been introduced. So starting from my left, we have mike smith, ceo
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 you re right, mark heller. he s an agricultural reporter. paul marion, senior white house correspondent. tamara harlingen at the atlanta journal-constitution. sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. philip, senior editor. steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. that s the number two for sonny perdue. we have betsy martin, executive and american university cochair. skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have ab
about an hour. good afternoon and welcome to the national press club, and i was president of the club in 2010, and pleased to have lunch and speaker secretary of agriculture sonny perdue, we welcome to the national press club. before we begin his remarks. and we ask them to turn it off. we would like you if you would be so inclined, and pound nbc live, true for all you folks in the twitterverse. and turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce the table. we hold the applause and laughter the full table is introduced and erupt in rapturous applause. starting from my left and you re right, mark heller, paul marion, at white house watch. washington correspondent at the atlanta journal constitution. the deputy communications director for secretary purdue, senior editor at agro pulse, stephen since key, secretary of agriculture, number 2 for sonny perdue, betsy fisher martin, and american university and cochair of the npc headliners team put together, putting t