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Frances Beinecke

...called the Climate Action Partnership [ CAP ] with CEOs from all over America—an...
...the road going forward. We heard it in CAP and I've heard it, actually, globall...
...we're working under.” But, with CAP we did a blueprint, which laid ver...
...the labor community. So we were part of CAP , Climate Action Partnership, wit...
...We had worked with John at the Center for American Progress . He actually had been a senior fello...

Christy Goldfuss

...with John from my time at the Center for American Progress , so I was deeply concerned; because ...
...the Havasupai tribe, when I was at the Center for American Progress , about uranium mining there. Then...
...of it may be when I first came to the Center for American Progress . I had been on House Natural Resource...
...Service well, but when I got to the Center for American Progress , just by total coincidence, I was pu...

Todd Stern

...time and then becoming a fellow at the Center for American Progress , which my friend John Podesta ha...
...about climate change. I'd worked at the Center for American Progress as a fellow, as I said. I did lots o...
...that. I think it was something that the Center for American Progress was also working on. Anyway, I was o...

Joe Solmonese

...who had been at HRC and was at CAP [Center for American Progress], and wa...
...who had been at HRC and was at CAP [ Center for American Progress ], and was at that point, I think, th...
...I think, the LGBT policy person at CAP . There's this meeting—it's funny, ...

Gayle Smith

...sustainable security program for the Center for American Progress , and cofounded the Enough Project an...
...sleep. And then I went to work in the Center for American Progress , which is now an established thin...
...Cassandra [Q.] Butts, who worked at the Center for American Progress , who tragically died a couple of year...

Gregory Craig

...to John Podesta's organization, Center for American Progress , sponsoring a youth conference [Campu...
...down here, as was Denis, at C-A-P, at CAP . So we started having meeting...

Melody Barnes

...team. From 2003 to 2008, she was at the Center for American Progress , where she was the senior executiv...
...in the Kennedy office and at the Center for American Progress , that my team in the Kennedy offic...
...office was extremely diverse. The Center for American Progress was extremely diverse. So it was no...
...met him—as I said, I was still at the Center for American Progress , and I was doing some work o...
...team. From 2003 to 2008, she was at the Center for American Progress , where she was the senior executiv...

...it reminds me that when you were at the Center for American Progress , you stood up an initiative on fait...
...as well. Yes. Doing that work at the Center for American Progress translated into a lot of differen...
...a lot, as I talked to colleagues at the Center for American Progress when I launched that work, about th...

Neera Tanden

...reform. She then left for the Center for American Progress [CAP], where she became president i...
...for the Center for American Progress [ CAP ], where she became president in 2011...
...government roles I've had, or even at CAP basically working to wade through ho...
...transition chairs, and I knew John from CAP and other experiences. He wanted me t...
...him many times. I kind of knew him from CAP and from multiple other things, and ...

...reform. She then left for the Center for American Progress , where she became president in 2011...
...and then I came out of it and ran the Center for American Progress , which defended for many years agains...
...the president. Then, when I was at the Center for American Progress , we defended the ACA for years, but w...
... I would tell my staff all the time at CAP , “It's up to us to save this bill...
...Schumer's staff and Pelosi's staff, at CAP . This leader of this other group wa...
...You can do what you want, but the Center for American Progress is going to fight this bill tooth an...
...to leave? I had helped start the Center for American Progress . I will say candidly, the mos...
...be a deputy at the NEC or go back to CAP . I can say this now. But there wa...
...was this notion that if I came back to CAP and I did well, I could be on th...
...for Larry Summers as a deputy or go to CAP ?” Again, I would be COO at CAP and no...
...or go to CAP?” Again, I would be COO at CAP and not CEO. But whenever John [D...
...had a great privilege in the sense the Center for American Progress worked very closely with the Obam...
...not even three weeks from now. CAP , I thought, did great work in thinkin...
...or a year. In fact, I came back to CAP , and I developed the strategy—I ca...
...ideas over three years. The benefit of CAP was that I didn't have—it's always ...
...connects the ideas you're generating at CAP to the White House. In that time tha...
...people about the idea. The thing about CAP and the work we did—CAP is different...
...thing about CAP and the work we did— CAP is different, as a think tank. It'...
...than, say, an advocacy group because at CAP , we try to have a lot of people in th...
...through how you can make it—the goal of CAP is not to have an idea. The goal of CA...
...CAP is not to have an idea. The goal of CAP was to have an idea that would hav...
...of the shared personnel ties between CAP and the White House, or was it mor...
...was the chief of staff. He had been a CAP senior fellow [laughs]. Jennife...
...[laughs]. Jennifer Palmieri was at CAP and then had become communication...
...progress, and pushed on certain scores. CAP is a different kind of thing. It's ...
...story about the debate. There was a CAP forum. Have I told the CAP foru...
...There was a CAP forum. Have I told the CAP forum story? I don't think so. Thi...
...healthcare happened. I had worked at CAP , but I was on the Hillary Clinto...
...starting, basically, January of 2007. CAP organized a forum with SEIU [Servic...
...comes full circle, because it was a CAP event [laughs], and then we did it...

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