luke russert, nbc news correspondent for congress and a new member of the national press club and genie friar, veteran associated press newsmen and a member of the national press club. [applause] kathleen sebelius, the and of the health of the apartment of human services lead the principal agency charged with keeping americans healthy and 80,000 employee institutions have been the focus of some of the obama administration's top priorities. as the country's highest-ranking health officials she has been a powerful voice in reforming the health insurance system along with coordinating response to the 2009 swine flu virus and it range of services from health care to child care to energy assistance during the economic downturn. kathleen sebelius whose father was governor of ohio and whose father in law with the kansas congressman has decades of political experience in her own right. she served in the kansas house of representatives until 1995 followed by eight years of the insurance commissioner where she was selected as public official of the year for 2,000 by governing magazine. in 2002 sh

john hughes reporter for bloomberg news and national press club board member. senior business ed qtr at aviation week magazine. undersecretary for the national protection programs to electorate and guest for the speaker. skipping over the podium we have andrew snyder says the editor and chairman of the press club's speakers' committee. skipping the speaker for the moment sean bullard national press club board member and president. the speaker's committee member who led the organization of today's event. acting tsa administrator and a guest of the speaker. linda jeneane and member of the speaker's committee and washington editor at crimber magazine. she's also helped put together this evening. chris chambers journalism professor george tenacity and commentator for russia today also a member of the press club. the director of communications for the holes corporation and former homeland security corporation. in the current homeland security spokesman a guest of the speaker press secretary clark stevens. [applause] our guest today has spoken before up the national p

-- national press club of mug.verybody has to do some sort of taxes. everett was then who does your taxes. if you can't do it yourself, too -- what's the hope of anyone doing it themselves? >> i have a parent i have had for 15 years to does my taxes with my health -- i have a preparer i had for 15 years who does might taxes with my help. i just got a good service from him for the last 15 years. i will not give you a name. >> thank you for coming today. >> thank you. [applause] >> we would like to thank the national press club staff including its library and broadcast operations center for of today's event. for more information about joining the national press club and how to acquire a copy of today's program go to our web site. thank you very much for attendance and thank you to our speaker. this meeting is adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] g, >> consequences of the type of fiscal behavior that we see today. it is d

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[applause] >> we would also like to thank the national press club staff including its library and broadcast operation center for organizing today's event. for more information about joining the national press club and on how to acquire a copy of today's program, please go to our website at www.press.org. thank you very much for your attendance today. and thank you again to our speaker. this meeting is adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] ..

and welcome to the national press club. m a reporter for bloomberg news and the president of the national press club. we're the world's leading professional organization for journalists and we're committed to our profession's future through our programming and through fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the press club, please visit our website at www.press.org. to donate to our programs, please visit www.press.org/library. on behalf of our members worldwide, i'd like to welcome our speaker and attendees of today's event which includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists. i'd also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. after the speech concludes i will ask as many audience questions as time permits. now i would like to introduce our head table guests. from your right, anthony shop principal of liftoff solutions and an nba candidate at the george washington university. he's also a 2004 harry s. truman scholar a distinction shared by our speaker today who was among the f

that afternoon and welcome to the national press club.d's leading organization for journalism. our programming offers a free press worldwide. for more information about the press club, please visit our web site at www.press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees for today's event which include guests about speaker as well as working journalists. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. i would allow my gosh i would now like to introduce our head table guests. from your right, a reporter for tax notes, a senior writer for cnn money dot com. diana gregg from the bnd report. susan anderson, the wife of the speaker. mullis the, vice chair of the speaker's committee. skipping over our speaker, paul, the bureau chief and jennifer, from the fiscal times and ryan, from bloomberg ms.. -- from bloomberg news. [applause] our guest is in the second year of his five-year term as commissioner of the internal revenue service. he is responsible for collecting 2.4 trillion doll

that is coming up at 1:00 eastern from the national press club. at 5:30 eastern, we will have live coverage on conservatism and what free markets have to do to survive in today's economy posted by the american enterprise institute. >> if you have a process where it takes years to get an answer and and you're down in the court, that is not a good answer for everybody that does not make the agency effective. >> former congressman on taking a fresh look at communications policy tonight on "the communicators," on c-span 2. the obama family welcomed thousands of children to the south lawn of the white house for the annual easter egg roll. this dates back to 1878. in the main event, children pushed eggs through the grass using wooden spoons. they featured basketball, cuyahoga, and healthy eating -- yoga and healthy eating. we will watch this for a couple of moments. ♪ [easter parade] >> congress continues spring recess. this morning, "washington journal" talked about plans when congress returns. host: congresswoman donna edwards represents maryland's fo

and i believe in the first in the history of the national press club, we have brought forth a nationalress club with candles being lit. what's the code for those candles? i'm the president here. national press club, come on down, birthday quaid -- cake i hope there's no quake, for dennis quaid. thank you and welcome to the national press club. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> please note that that song may not have been sunk by the working journalists in the audience. [laughter] >> please welcome in his quaid. [applause] >> thank you, alan, for that fine introduction. and also thank you for the sharp cookies, by the way. i hope everyone got one. i don't know if it refers to my latest movie or a lobbyist convention that was here last week. [laughter] >> but i played a lobbyist here, by the way. thank you so much. first i must explain the title of my presentation today, in the journey that brought me here i have found out to shocking truths. first, the staggering magnitude of health care harm that occurs in a country. second, how much of that harm is absolutely preventable. the father of p

the national editor for "vanity fair", john hughes reporter for bloomberg news and national press club board member this senior business editor fact aviation week magazine. the undersecretary for national protection of programs and a guest of the speaker and we have andrew schneider the associate editor for it to blinder and speaker of the committee and a skipping the speaker the national press club board me the committee member who led the organization of today's event. gaelic, acting tsa administrator and a guest of the speaker and linda kramer a member of the speakers' committee and also help to put together this event. chris chambers a journalism professor nine commentator for russia today also a new member of the press club. and a director of communications for the harris corporation and a former homeland security spokesman and a current homeland security spokesman. [applause] our guest today has spoken before although the title has changed she was last our guest here three years ago handling many issues over the same she did during her time out of governor as arizona with border

this is live from the national press club. . . [applause] >> thank you for that nice and gracious introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. before i start, i want to thank one person and one group of people -- out want to thank my wife. being the irs commissioner, i consider one of the best jobs in the world, i'm not sure being the wife of the irs commissioner is. i'm very appreciative of everything the family does. i also want to welcome a number of the senior executives from the irs, my colleagues, the make the tax system work every day. i've done a number of stints in the private and public sector. right now, i work with as talented a group of executives as you will find in any business, any government, any non-profit anywhere in the world. my hat's off to my colleagues here as well. it is good to be here in the spring to address the national press club. it's good to see the cherry blossoms. those of you live in d.c., it's good not to see snow at this time of year. one of the things when you walk around, probably on your way o

so it's good to be here in the spring to address the national press club. it's good to see cherry blossoms, those of you who live in d.c., it's good not to see snow this time of the year. one the things when you walk around, probably on your way over here, you notice lots of tourist going to museums, the mall, some people were going to easter egg roll. you also see amongst those tourist, police officers attending to the safety of everyone in washington, park rangers showing people where they should go on the mall, landscapers keeping the city beautiful, and you see a number of school teachers taking classes around educating their students, teaching them about the capitol. one the things all of those people you see amongst the tourist have in common is that they are all public servants, who serve their fellow citizens, their neighbors, their family, their friends every day. there's another group of public servants that you won't see milling around the streets of washington. and those are the thousands of irs employees who right now during this time of year a

when an press club -- women's press club to establish their voice in an otherwise male-dominated business. we are proud airs of that legacy. we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the nationalress club's decision to open its doors to women and the 25th anniversary of the merger of fun the women's and national press club. from that came the mission to carry out the press club goals of equality, scholarship, and excellence in journalism. in keeping with that mission, the proceeds of tonight's dinner go to charitable projects, including collecting oral history of women pioneers in journalism. it is my pleasure and honor to not leave our program in the more than able hands of are in steve -- our mcs. joe is in familiar territory. he has lived the life of a congressman and newspaper publisher. mecham, a recent author of a memoir, -- micah, a recent author of the mark, offers a message that is relevant today but would have been-. and i give your own version of "evening joe." [applause] >> thank you. let us pray. let us pray. if we could all about our heads -- bow our heads. it is the southern trick to get you to shut up. thank you. and keep shutting up, or i am going to deliver a

this is >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club.d's leading professional organization for journalists and we are committed to the future to programming and fostering a free press worldwide. for more information, please visit our web site at www.pre ss.org. to donate, please visit this same site. i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees. i would also like to thank our c-span and public radio audiences. after the speech, i will ask as many audience questions as time permits. i would now like to introduce our had cablecasts. -- our guests. senior writer for cnnmon ey.com. tax reporter for reuters. the vice chair of the speaker's committee. the press secretary for legislative affairs for the natural resources defense council. the bureau chief for the cch news bureau. [applause] our guest is in the second year of his five-year term as they irs commissioner. he is responsible for collecting $2.40 trillion revenues in tax. with more than 100,000 employees in the budget of $11 billion, he has a significant resources at his disposal

the national press club young members committee and reporters without borders are the hosts of this event. it's about 50 minutes. >> thank you for joining us tonight. this is the inaugural event of the truth teller series. i am more than happy to have the our guest speaking to us tonight -- our guest speaking ato us tonight. we are the only age demographic based committee at the club representing everyone from the ages of 18 to 35, including our students members. anyone who is in journalism school is more than welcome to join. and thank you for coming. this is a more than exciting event. i am happy to be organizing this, it is something i have wanted to see done since i was in journalism school. thank you. to introduce our guest i. >> we hope we can raise awareness where press freedom is threatened. you might know it now but iran is at a very bad point at its history. reporters are fleeing the country. some of them are afraid that some friends or the families have been found by the government. they are deleting facebook from files. can you imagine being forced to delete your facebook prof

thank you are very much to the national press club staff as well as those who came today. thank you. this meeting is adjourned. . . >> simon johnson talks about the power of wall street banks since the 2008 financial collapse. then former treasury secretary, henry paulson, from his memoir. then at 8:30 p.m., is afterwards with john lewis. the transportation department will suit toyota -- they will fine to yet for $6 million. congressional meetings have call into question the government enforcement of these standards. two former administrators discuss federal oversight of car safety standards. they are joined by the president and ceo of alliance of automobile manufacturers. they will take your phone calls and tweets tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. see the winners of c-span's studentcam video documentary competition. middle and high school students submit it videos on one of the country's greatest strengths. watched the top winning videos every morning on c-span at 6:50 a.m. eastern. at 8:30 a.m., meet the students who made them. for a preview of the winners, visit studentcam.

at 1:00 p.m., will be live from the national press club as douglas shulman talks about his role in overseeing more than $2 trillion in taxes. we will have live coverage of a discussion on the free market systems in today's global economy. it is hosted by the american enterprise institute. >> if you have a process where its six years to get an answer, and you are bogged down in the courts, it does not make the agency effective. >> tom tauke calling on the government to take a fresh look, tonight, and c-span2. >> until our live discussion about president obama's upcoming discussion, we have more from "washington journal." inspector general of the homeland security back in the bush administration. here to talk to us about these new screening procedures for folks coming in to the united states announced on friday by the administration, what changes? guest: as you know, in the immediate aftermath of the christmas day bombings there was a blanket targeting really of those with passports from 14 countries of concern, countries that have been linked to terrorism -- yemen, saudi arabia, pakistan, now

with 10 days left to file your taxes, douglas showmen speaks this morning at the national press club. the irs is expected to collect some $2.4 trillion this year. and later, a discussion on conservatism and what is called the new capitalism, a free market can survive in the global economy at the american enterprise institute by the 5:30 p.m. >> if you have a process where it takes years to get an answer and you are bogged down in the courts, which is what is threatening our industry right now, that is not a good answer for anybody and it certainly does not make the agency effective. >> verizon executive vice paulick -- verizon executive vice president for policy calling the government to take a fresh look at communications policy tonight on the communicators on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: larry minnix is the president and -- the president with the american association of homes and services for the aging. as the first national long-term care insurance from the government, how will this run? guest: is meant to be a -- it is designed to be an insurance financed gove

this afternoon at the national press club, golf fans put on special glasses for a three-dimensithree-dim aengs view. high-definition cameras are used in pairs to make the 3-d viewing. >>> of all the things i want to see in 3-d, golf is not up there on the top of my list. >> you don't want to get in front of his shots. >> that's right. tom is in the weather center with the good word on our weekend forecast. it's feeling more like sprimtime out there tonight. >> it should be a good weekend for playing golf, tennis or shooting hoops or hiking, kaya. there is the jefferson memorial down rivers. reagan national airport where the temperature has fallen to 48 degrees. that is the low today from the high this afternoon of 59. the record low tomorrow morning, 28 set on saturday's date back in 1997. it is going to be at or below freezing in the shenandoah valley by dawn tomorrow and down in the 30s in the nearby suburbs. we are picking up a few sprinkles in the panhandle of west virginia drying. there are actually a few snow flurries in allegany counties in western maryland and southwestern pennsy

copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> we will take you live now on never to the national press club. the health and human services secretary kathleen stapelia speaking to reporters. it is started -- sebelius speaking to reporters. it started just a few minutes ago. the u.s. secretary is putting state officials on alert for scam attempts. this is live on c-span. >> we know the only way the law will reach its full potential as if americans understand and take advantage of the new benefits and forces that will be available to them. so here are some of the facts. if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your health plan, and your health plan. the law builds on the health insurance system that we have and makes three key changes. first, it makes sure that every american who has an insurance policy gets real security by creating a series of common sense rules of require insurance companies to treat you fairly. secondly, in making insurance more affordable for millions of americans by creating a new insurance market called exchanges and creates tax benefits for those who

here is the legendary national press club mog. -- mug. [applause] now for the last question -- given the debate and your position, what was the biggest challenge to staying healthy during the stressful months of health-care negotiations? >> i am our runner. i figure as long as no one is chasing me, i will continue to run. that helps us sort out my days. i go down to the mall,, a little "god bless america," and it believed the sun will come up. and sure enough, it has. i am pleased to be with you here today. thank you for inviting me. hopefully you will all visit our website, healthreform.gov. we would like to have your input on what is working or not working, what information is hard to find

middle east and the head of the internal revenue service, commissioner schulman, speaks at the national press club. a couple of live events to tell you about today on c-span2. a preview of next week's nuclear security summit with 40 leaders who are gathering to discuss securing nuclear material worldwide. that is at noon eastern. on c-span at 8:00 p.m. eastern we will take your calls and questions on federal oversight of car safety standards two former leaders of a national highway traffic safety administration and the president of the alliance of automobile manufacturers and to follow up on monday's announcement, a $16 million fine on toyota. that is live online at c-span.org and on c-span radio. up next, washington institute forum on nuclear security and the middle east. it is an hour and a half. >> good afternoon and welcome to the washington institute for middle east policy. i am the baker fellow and director of the gulf and energy policy program here. it also falls to me today to share this session. it is one of those curious occasions when i am also a speaker so i hope i will get the balance

. >> when ginnie comes marching home is the name of of the boo >> every year the national press club hosts an author's night. author of 14 books. a new book out called defenders of faith. let's start with the basic questions. >> the holy roman emperor. the tenth sultan of the ottoman empire. the two came into a clash in vienna in 1527 and 1532. really was a clash of empires and the clash of civilizations and the clash of religions. we think after 9/11 we were the only ones that never had this experience of jihad versus crusade, but this is what i have been really doing for the last four books, reminding people of episodes in history where christianity and islam came into conflict. >> what was the result? >> well, the result was that the ottoman turks, the islamic forces. had they not been stopped what he wanted to do was go all the way to the rhine river. had he prevailed europe would had been islamic in 1527. so it is a major turning point in history. >> when you are working on this type of ancient history what are your sources cannot. >> i have an office at the library of congress.

the new america foundation and arizona state university hosts this discussion from the national press club. it's an hour and 30 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. let's get the event started, i am the president of the university and together with the new america foundation we're sponsoring this discussion today which we hope will be one -- somewhat differentiated from typical discussion where one talks about theories to why we can't advance american energy dependence. today our discussion will focus, hopefully to the extent we can, on the revolutionary steps necessary to achieve that as a goal, to achieve that as an objective. last week some of you might have read the article in the "new york times" with the fantastic graphic about the move and countermove scenarios of an israeli attack on the iranians and what might happen and what would happen and so forth and i remember reading at the bottom and it said at the end it said the straits of hear mousse -- straits of harmuse would be compromised and i remember a class in college and they were telling us the same thing and i thought somehow

the national press club welcomes -- a center 11. i am not sure she remembers. but i can remember her at our house in berkeley -- as we had meetings. and she was two or three years old. she would just stay there listening intently, and so she is here today. ask any question unrelated to ways and means, i will turn my cell phone on and text message my brother. [laughter] so, i have it here. especially if it relates to armed services matters. and others he is investigating beyond arms services today, as you know. as i sat down to write my remarks, i thought, what were the events of the 27 years that i have been in congress? my colleague dennis is here, we served together. butler derrick. and i remember the recession, the end of soviet power and domination. i remember well the debate over the health care bill in the clinton years. i remember very vividly the republican takeover of the house. of course, 9/11, and the war in iraq. i remember also going home in 1993 after the deficit reduction vote that passed, as you remember, just by a sliver. and we made the mistak

i would also like to thank the national press club staff, including the library broadcast operations or for organizing today's event. for more information about doing the national press club and how to acquire a copy of today's program please go to our website at www.press.org. thank you. this meeting is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we still have a vast workforce out there with too many people who can't read, can't learn, can't compete. 75 to 80% of people who would in the workforce in year 2000, we have to do more with them. >> whether bill clinton from 1987 or last week the c-span video library features 115,000 unique individual. every day adds new faces from politicians, reporters and experts to follow. search it, watch it, clip it and share it. every program since 1987 now available free online at the c-span video library. >> the senate as gaveling in for the day. following and our of morning business senators will resume consideration of the nomination to be an undersecretary of the treasury. of vote on her nomination is expected at noon eastern.

we do not pay guests at the national press club.it is certainly something that we try to keep and we appreciate those from hollywood who'll come without being paid because that's very refreshing for all of us out here and we appreciate your willingness to come and speak with us but we do have a token of our appreciation. we would like to now present you with the one, the only, the famous national press club mug. [applause] >> oh, fantastic! [applause] >> beautiful. really. thank you so much. it really has truly been an honor to be here today. i want everybody to have at least a fingerful of this cake over here. ok? >> we have our last question. often we try to ask something offbeat and humorous and lively but we have had a lot of that today. you have mentioned faith and prayer several types today throughout your address and actually attributed prayer to what you think may have saved your twins. did you incident with your twins change the way you view your faith? >> i've always had -- i think i've always had a strong faith. in god. i

the national press club welcomes sander levin.se] >> thank you very much and thank you for inviting me and my you for inviting me and my daughter the first session or meeting or events my late beloved wife of 50 years and i took jenny to. i am not sure she remembers. but i can remember her at our house in berkeley -- as we had meetings. and she was two or three years old. she would just stay there listening intently, and so she is here today. ask any question unrelated to ways and means, i will turn hav especially if it relates to armed services matters. and others he is investigating beyond arms services today, as you know. as i sat down to write my remarks, i thought, what were the events of the 27 years that i have been in congress? my colleague dennis is here, we served together. butler derrick. and i remember the recession, the end of soviet power and domination. i remember well the debate over the health care bill in the clinton years. i remember very vividly the republican takeover of the house. of course, 9/11, and the war

would also like to think the national press club staff, including its library and broadcast center for organizing today's the event. for more commission on how to join the national press club, and how to acquire a copy of today's program, please put your website. thank you, once again, this meeting is adjourned. [applause] tonight, a tribute to dorothy height. we will hear remarks from bill clinton and secretary hillary clinton. that is at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. saturday, on america and the courts, a discussion with the fourth circuit court of appeals judge. he is the first african-american to serve on the court. that is tomorrow, at 7:00 p.m. eastern. following that, almost 3000 journalists, politicians and celebrities will get together at the washington hilton for a correspondents' dinner. that begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern said it, here on c-span. a c-span video library fact -- there are nearly 6000 references to abraham lincoln in our video library. you will find lots of interesting programs online. for a contemporary perspective, there is c-span's book, "abraham lincoln" now

. >> reporter: dennis quaid was all smiles as he addressed a friendly crowd at the national press club. a medical mistake nearly cost the lives of his newborn twins. it happened in a los angeles hospital right before quaid's unsuspecting eyes. >> when my wife and i were in the room, a nurse unintentionally gave our children 1,000 times the dosage of a dangerous flood thinner. we had no way of knowing that the potentially lethal quantity of heprin in their tiny bodies with was turning their blood into a consistency of water. >> reporter: the twins recovered but quaid and his wife were never the same. the actor has become an activist, speaking out, he say, not to criticize the health care industry, but to make it better. >> my mission today is to drive awareness. awareness of the shocking amount of harm that we can, that we can prevent. and my message is a call to action. >> quaid maintains in order to eliminate medical mistakes and improve patient care, health care professals need to speak out. the actor believes that investing in tech nolgs will serve as a safety net. >> technologies l

at the national press club yesterday irs commissioner explained why all that additional manpower mayneeded according to schulman the irs will be taking a lead role in enforcing the individual mandate that requires all americans to buy health insurance. if you refuse, could you lose your tax refund. >> there are a number of tax provisions which our agency is responsible for. if somebody doesn't have coverage, either paid the penalty that they owe or get a letter from us saying thank you owe this amount. >> sean: just what every american looks forward to. getting more letters from the irs. senate majority leader harry reid went on the record last night and listen to what he told greta about the popularity of the democrats' health care overhaul. >> now that the legislation passed, it is amazing how much different people's attitude is. traveling on an airplane people are so nice to me. we have people -- it wasn't that way before. everybody acknowledges, with the rare exception that what we did with immediate deliver ups are terrific. >> sean: the latest rasmussen poll shows 62% of nevada

the secretary of the navy will give a talk at the national press club later. up in 45 minutes, we will talk with the former commerce secretary about the new powers over immigration law and a look at the national job market with the ceo of an employment services firm. a reporter will talk about financial market regulations.

from the national press club in washington, this is one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] hello, welcome to the national press club and another addition of the kalb report and the guest tonight is rupert murdoch the subject of the making of a modern media mogul. about 15 years ago, a biographer of rupert murdoch described him as one of the most powerful man in the world. the communications revolution and which we now find ourselves is changing the world. everything about it, what we read, see, listen to, appreciate the everything from economics to politics to culture. rupert murdoch is now in the middle all of that. his corporation, the news corporation, owns and runs a movie company, you have heard of "avatar" i'm sure, fox entertainment, sports, fox news on cable with ratings high year than any other cable operation, "the wall street journal," the new york post, harpercollins book publisher. and that's all just in the united states. a lot more overseas in england, europe and asia. rupert murdoch is indeed a modern media mogul, and we are delighted, indeed honor

the national plus -- press club welcomes congressman sander levin. [applause] >> thank you very much and thank you for inviting me and my daughter jenny. i can't remember the first session or meeting or events my late beloved wife of 50 years and i took jenny to. i am not sure she remembers. but i can remember her at our house in berkeley -- as we had meetings. and she was two or three years old. she would just stay there listening intently, and so she is here today. ask any question unrelated to ways and means, i will turn my cell phone on and text message my brother. [laughter] so, i have it here. especially if it relates to armed services matters. and others he is investigating beyond arms services today, as you know. as i sat down to write my remarks, i thought, what were the events of the 27 years that i have been in congress? my colleague dennis is here, we served together. butler derrick. and i remember the recession, the end of soviet power and domination. i remember well the debate over the health care bill in the clinton years. i remember v

he was asked about the value added tax at the national press club. he said he wanted to take up a broad tax code overhaul starting in 2011, but added that the much discussed value added tax was "not on the agenda." he said a number of left- leaning economists said the vat tax would be discussed. if you did not see the national press club speech, it is available on our c-span video library at c-span.org. is it time for the usa to institute a vat tax? next call is from rhode island on the line for independents. caller: thank you. i would like to list a few things that i would like to see eliminated. i think it would take the burden of taxation of the rank-and-file american citizens. that would include getting rid of the income tax, which is communist. the federal reserve, that's another communist thing. foreign aid, and the united nations international monetary fund, world trade organization, and world bank. get rid of this is the called -- to rid of this idiocy called free trade. restore the tariffs on imports. we had a wonderful thing which capped a

i am chairman of the young man was committed here at the national press club. and we are the only age demographic-based committee at the club representing everyone from the ages of 18 to 35, including our student members, anyone who is in journalism schools more than welcome to join, certainly. and thank you all for coming. it is something i've wanted to see done here since i was actually in journalism school myself. thank you. and to introduce hasan, thank you. >> thank you very much. it's actually a great opportunity to be here at the national press club to talk about press freedom. today is iran and we hope we can raise awareness in lots of countries of the world where press freedom is threatened. you might all know it now, but iran is at a very, very bad point at its history. the reporters are fleeing the country. some of them are just afraid that some friends or the families have been found by the government so that i'll be leaving facebook profile. can you imagine being as a journalist forced to delete your facebook profile because your friends are at stak

we would also like to thank the national press club staff, including the library and broadcast operations center and for more information on joining and how to acquire a copy of today's program go to our website at press.org. thank you, and this meeting is adjourned. . in just a moment, vice-president biden, then richard holbrooke on and -- anna afghanistan. the financial regulations bill, and later, a memorial service on the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the murrah federal building in oklahoma city. >> on washington journal, a survey on how americans feel about government. we will talk about volunteering with patrick corbi andvington ad kenneth noble will take your questions. >> c-span, a public affairs content is on radio and online. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook and youtube. >> vice president joe biden confirmed reports that iraqi and u.s. forces killed two senior al qaeda leaders this weekend. he also said that the u.s. is on track to withdraw all military forces by the end of next year. he spoke for about five minutes, just before the daily white hou. >> good

strategists this morning in charge of the group the tea party express held a news conference at the national press club to talk about strategies for the upcoming 2010 congressional mid term elections. it runs about an hour and 20 minutes. >> good morning. good morning. thank you for your attention and welcome to the press conference for the tea party express. it gives me great pleasure to -- thank you. [applause] my name is william owens. this is my wife. mrs. owens is going to open up with a morning prayer. >> for those who would like to bow their heads, please do so. lord in heaven, we give you thanks for this day. we give you thanks for our country and for the ability -- and for freedom. we ask you for your grace, guidance and insight as we navigate these waters, to continue to chart a course for america, we ask you to give each person insight and we thank you for continuing to guide us in the land of the free and the home of the brave in jesus' mighty name we pray. amen. >> amen. thank you. i am going to ask for those who have signs be kind to not hold them up so the media behind you will be able t

now leaders over the group tea party express on this year's congressional election from the national press clubin washington, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> we came down from boston yesterday. we were more than 10,000 people joined us on boston common to celebrate america. [applause] >> joining me at the podium is our director of outreach and one of the co-founders, miss amy kremer from atlanta, georgia. >> good morning. >> we have been very busy over the last couple of years actually laying the groundwork for a 2010 victory in the united states over this ideology that has us in its grasp right now. much of our focus has been in nevada where one of the big three happens to have a grip on that state as well. senator harry reid. we kicked off this tour in searchlight, nevada, a town of 500 people. some estimates were -- you were there? congratulations. [applause] we, according to some accounts there were as many as 35,000 people at that town of 500. we did more in terms of economic stimulus in one day -- [laughter] than harry reid has done his entire existence on this earth. even though

it is a discussion hosted by the new american foundation live from the national press club here on c-span2 the extent that we can on the revolutionary steps necessary to achieve that as people, to achieve that as an objective. last week some of you might have read the article in the new york times with a fantastic graphic about the move and countermove some areas of an israeli attack. i remember reading of the way down at the bottom. at the end some of the streets would be once again politically or militarily compromised. i thought back to 1974 when i was in class in college. the retiring as the the same in. ou

in regard to the commissioner's comments, the national press club on april 5, in that speech he indicated the individual mandate would be enforced through matching programs of some sort, based on insurance companies providing at 1099-like document to an individual who would attach it to the return. in a recent interview, he stated that the ira's would not be auditing individuals to -- irs would not be auditing individuals. this was reiterated in an op- ed. what incentives to individuals have to purchase insurance if they knew that the irs will not collect the penalty? >> we will be looking. we will have that matching program and we will be corresponding with people. whether that triggers an examination will depend on a given case. what my boss was saying, that is not the kind of case we send out an agent to pursue. it is the kind of case which correspond with the taxpayer. congress is limited -- limiting tools we can use. we can talk to the taxpayer and we have a refund of said mechanism in order to enforce that provision. that is in our toolbox. >> let me give you this thing. some idea o

. >> homeland security secetary napalitano was at the national press club talking about everest improves -- improve airline safety. her remarks last about an hour. [inaudible conversations] ..

. >> reporter: dennis quaid was all smiles as he addressed a friendly crowd at the national press clubey from the day in 20 w mistake nearly cost the lives of his newborn twins. it happened at a los angeles hospital. >> when my wife and i were in the room, a nurse unintentionally gave our children 1 now times the dosage of a dangerous blood thinner 1,000 times the dose. we this no way of knowing that. >> the twins recovered, but quaid and his wife were never the same. the actor and his wi oor has be activist. >> my mission is to drive awareness, awareness of the shocking amount of harm that we have, that we can prevent and my message is a call to action. >> yad maintains in order to eliminate medical mistakes and improve patient care, health care professionals need to speak out. >> technologies like bar code systems smart infusion pumps, electronic medical records, automated infection tracking, bedside bar coding and cpoe all require investment and safe adoption, but they can have a huge impact. >> reporter: quaid says medical mistakes kill roughly 100,000 people a year. not because of

and for the reporters of the borders and the national press club. it's an honor for me to speak here. and i think we can witness really freedom of iran. and anyone can tell -- can say their ideas freely. thank you very much. [applause] >> and if anyone has questions, just please raise your hand. >> hi, thank you so much for coming. i'm an attorney and a blogger in town. i'm curious as to whether anybody who actually goes to prison for their political activism and journalism ever comes out? or what is the typical plate -- and is there documented cases of torture there should be human rights attention addressed to that is not being addressed right now? >> actually i can tell you some examples. a man who was a well-known journalist in iran, he is still in the prison. and they accused him to activities against islamic rules -- criticized the leaders -- the supreme leader. and he cannot write for any more for future. and they accused -- they sentenced him to exile for five years, you know, one of the far cities in iran. any of the journalists who are in

[cheering] moments ago the national press club we announced our endorsement and commitment of resources to elect nevada state legislators geren ingalls to replace harry reid. yesterday even though i live in boston, i live in california but my home state is boston. we were there with sarah palin. [cheering] and tend thousand plus of my case staters joining us to take and reclaim the socialist people's republic of massachusetts for america. jericho you are doing all the hard work though. the only way this country gets fixed is if you do the work in the trenches. we can get you revved up and connected with people but at the end of the day it is organizing committee. it is keeping the hammer down with e-mails and letters and phone calls to restore a constitutional republic to the united states of america. [cheering] don't you dare let anyone tell you you are a racist, angry or are a mob. [cheering] we are a human rights movement. what we are doing is based on the united states constitution. [cheering] the i united states constitution sets up america as the only society in the history of man

speaking at the national press club.ach and every one of us has a responsibility to make sure we do something to fight for our great nation. i am so proud to be involved with the tea party express. what they announced today is so critical. it is not just enough to stand again something in protest and rally. we need to start having a political impact. that starts in each and every election. when i joined up after harry reid, i knew that i could not just start there. i started a website against barbara boxer in california and barbara -- barney frank in massachusetts and nancy pelosi in san francisco, and patty murray in washington state. and i realized that i am over extended periods -- overextended. bart stupak quit and ran. three weeks ago i came on these buses. i had no idea what to expect. i walk away in a different man inspired by the presence and the greatness of our great nation. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you. before we wrap this up, i want to bring one other special person appeared to address you a

he is at the national press club. the commission on wartime contract and holding another hearing looking at contract in iraq and afghanistan you will hear from contractors and defense officials. live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c- span2. >> of the vetting process has begun for a new supreme court justice. the view that c-span video library to find background information of possible nominees, including michigan gov. jennifer grant home, the h s secretary-general napolitano, and other names reported by the media on the short list. every program since 1987. the c-span video library, cable's latest gift to america. all this month, see the winners of c-span's studentscam video documentary competition. middle and high school students from 45 states submitted videos on one of the country's greatest strengths for a challenge the country is facing. a watch the top winning videos every morning just before "washington journal." and that it o'clock 30 a.m. during the program, meet the students -- 8:30 during the program, meet the stu

it is at the national press club. it is a group called global 0. they're reacting to the announcement on the new start treaty in prague. there are some new names. right into live coverage. >> this is miss wilson. she worked as a career cia operations officer and plays a very prominent role in the film "countdown to zero." to her left is retired general jack sheehan. he is a former commander and has provided military expertise to the global zero commission initiative. last, but not least is reverend richard. he is the president of the new evangelicals and a fellow of the open society institute. i will just make one or two brief remarks to open this up and then turn to the other panelists. global xerxzero as an initiativs roughly 18 months old. we got involved prior to the right -- prior to the inauguration of barack obama. at that time, i think we played an important catalytic role in beginning to think through the problems in a limited in all nuclear weapons. in our large international meeting in paris, over a year ago, we called for a resumption o