Good morning. I am linda feldman, Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. Welcome and congratulations on last night. A bit of background. Chairman perez is from buffalo, new york. He earned his bachelor degree from Brown University and a law degree from harvard. After graduating he served a number of government positions, clerked for a federal judge, was a prosecutor for ted kennedy, worked in the office of civil rights for president clinton, and in 2002, became the first hispanic member of the Montgomery County council in maryland, then serves as marylands secretary of labor. In 2009, president obama named mr. Perez head of the Civil Rights Division at the u. S. Department of justice. In 2013, president obama made him secretary of labor, and in 2017, mr. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record h
Kentucky, virginia, and other state races. The Christian Science monitor event also asked about the ongoing impeachment inquiry against president trump. Good morning. I am linda feldman, Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Tom perez,oday is chair of the Democratic National committee. Congratulations on last night. A bit of background. Chairman perez is from buffalo, new york. He earned his bachelor degree from Brown University and a law degree from harvard. He served a number of government positions, clerked for a federal judge, was a prosecutor for ted kennedy, worked in the office of civil rights for president clinton, and in 2002, became the first hispanic member of the Montgomery County council in maryland. He became secretary of labor. In 2009, president obama named mr. Perez head of the Civil Rights Division at the u. S. Department of justice. In 2015, president obama made him secretary of labor, and in 2017, mr. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic
Monitor. Perez,st today is tom chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance. So welcome, chairman perez and congratulations on last night. A bit of background. Chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york. Son of immigrants from the minnick and republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a law degree from harvard. After graduating he served a number of government positions. Clerk for a federal judge, with a federal prosecutor, advised senator ted kennedy, directed the office of civil rights and hhs under present clinton. He became the first hispanic member of the county counsel in maryland and then served as marylands secretary of labor. Named 2009 present obama mr. Perez head of the Civil Rights Division at the u. S. Department of justice. In 2013 president obama made him secretary of labor and into thousand 17, mr. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee. Which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. W
The Christian Science monitor, he was asked about tuesdays elections in kentucky, virginia, mississippi and new jersey as well as the impeachment inquiry. Good morning. Im linda feldman. Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance on a monitor breakfast. Welcome, chairman perez, and congratulations on last night. For his background, chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york, the son of immigrants from the dominican republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a large degree from harvard. After graduating, he served in a number of government positions, wasked for a federal judge a federal prosecutor, advised senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no
Senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo when the session ends at 10 00. To we will email pictures all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you would like to ask a question, please send me a signal and i will call on as many of you as time permits. Mr. Perez. The floor is yours. Perez thank you for the additional invite to come back. It is an honor to be here with all of you. Two and a half years ago, february 2017, i ran for chair of the dnc, and iran under the promise that we were going to Work Together with our partners in the democratic ecosystem to build a 50state party so that we are competing everywhere, every year, in every zip code. And we are doing ex