Cspan3, cspan. Org, or listen to it live with the free cspan radio app. The Democratic National Committee Held its Unity Reform Commission for its final meeting this past weekend. The 21member commission was convened ahead of the 2016 Democratic National convention to boost party unity by offering recommendations to the dncs rules committee for changes in the way the party selects delegates and other matters. This portion starts with remarks from dnc chair tom perez. Its just over two hours. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. I am jennifer dylan, im joined by my great friend larry cohen, who is the vice chair of the commission, and i hereby call the final meeting of the Unity Reform Commission to order. I would like to first ask the members and those with us to join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask Patrice Taylor
To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next slide yeah. A guest speaker said derivatives were defined three different ways in dodd frank on purpose to give the agency more power to actually select the definition that they wanted because they could have more power not on the hill at that point but with the agency defining it. Yeah. Well, i mean but if youre saying that the agency has the power, youre really saying that the groups that influence the congress to write those three different definitions were expecting some advantage from one or m
Will say well, we have a different core ethical values in europe. Thats great okay. And greece . In europe generally. Ro romania . No offense to those countries, but we have a different value system here. We dont need all those rules and regulations because we know whats right and wrong. Well, i think we need a certain amount of regulation of law but we also have to have people going into Public Service that remember why they went into it, which is Public Service. Maybe to shrink government but also to solve problems. And they forget that sometimes because absolute power corrupts absolutely sometimes, theyre pursuing things for themselves their family. They forget. And this class that i teach we start out with some philosophy from madison and others to talk about that, because it is something in your lives that you have to figure out what youre willing to do. And you will face that. I have faced that. Youll face it and youll have to determine whats right and wrong, and theres no someti