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good afternoon, and welcome. my name is myron belkheim, i m an adjunct professor, and the 107th president of the national press club, the leading organization for journalists committed to our profession s future through our programming. with events such as this while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website at press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today s event. our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as journalists who are club members, so if you hear applause in our audience, note that the general public are attending so it s not just a lack of journalistic you can follow the action on twitter using the hash tag mpc lunch. after our guest speech concludes, we ll have a question and answer period. i will ask as many questions as time permits. now it s time to introduce our head table guest. i would like each of ....
mr. walsh: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. walsh: request that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. walsh: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. walsh: i ask unanimous consent that following disposition of calendar number 635, rose, there be three hours of debate equally divided in the usual form on the motion to invoke cloture on calendar number 1084, saldana. further, that the time from 2:15 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. be equally divided in the usual form, with all other provisions of the previous order remaining in effect. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. walsh: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider all nominations placed on the secretary s desk in the foreign service. that t ....
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changes in fiscal policy will probably be needed. it s not our job to lien those up. it s the job ch congress to decide what policy changes over time might line those lines up. first, please join me in thanking these two guys for such a good [ applause] i also want to remind everybody that all of this and more is on our website. as you know, these events don t happen automatically. everyone for helping us make this such a success. i m no more certain about what the right answers are, but i m a lot more sophisticated about my understanding of uncertainty and i hope the same is true for you. finally, people on the hutchins advisory committee, marty phillips, others, would like to take a picture. i appreciate it. for the rest of you, thank you very much. [ applause] in about an hour, remarks from donald trump at the economic club of washington. he ll discuss the trump brand entrance into the d.c. business community and his possible political aspirations. see those ....
companies should be required to cover over-the-counter birth control because they don t do that now. a couple of things. one, i see this becoming more common in many different races. you see colorado and north carolina in particular. a couple of senatorial candidates. i think that the fact that the left has reacted so loudly shows you that it s working. i think they realize this is no longer a tactsic they can use. they can no longer caricaturize our position. when i originally offered this idea, we were following the recommendations at that time, the recent recommendations, of the medical societies themselves. the doctors themselves think this is a safe product, should be offered over the counter. two things. one, allowing the product to be offered over the counter doesn t stop a woman from being able to get the product with a prescription through her doctor, therefore it would still be covered. some of the democrats are trying to attack these republican senatorial c ....