proposed requirement beforehanding graduates in chicago their high school diplomas. introductions under way. welcome to the national press club. the place where news happens. my name is andrea. i m part of the breaking newsdesk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started, i d like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. our viewing and listening audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag press club. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. so any applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now i d like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants stand up when i say your name. we have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and higher educa
i m part of the breaking news desk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our in-house audience to please silence cellphones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in higher education. we have jerry weller, former u.s. representative from illinois s 11th district and president of the illinois state society in washington. we have mike herks, mpen, a supe
welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. my name is andrea edney. i m part of the breaking news desk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our in-house audience to please silence cellphones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in higher education. we have jerry weller, former u.s. representative from illinois s 11th distric
college for parabens. his remarks at the national press club run one hour. andrea: welcome to the national press club. the place where news happens. my name is andrea. i m part of the breaking newsdesk at bloomberg news and i m vice president of the national press club. before we get started, i d like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag # pressclub. for our c-span and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now i d like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and higher education. we have
silence your telephones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. so any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i d like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants please stand up when i say your name. we have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. we have jerry weller, foformer u.s. representative from illinois s district and the state society in washington. we have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d.c. we have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student who s planning to study neuroscience. we have armando rodriguez. we have lisa matthews co-leader of the n