David. I question the meal part. It didnt look like it was ubstantial enough. Hopefully it will keep you from sleeping. Its a council. We are on tight budgets. For those that dont know senator burr, in his third term. Senator from North Carolina. I havent sorted out whether youre in the duke rooting side of the state or the university of North Carolina rooting side of the state. Senator burr whichever one ins. He is of course part of the Senate Intelligence committee and for his sins becoming chairman,ess messagering the most complex, the most complitly changed charged and i would say the most Important Senate investigation running at least a generation, maybe two. Its not every day that a senator gets to run an investigation whether there are disclosures happening every day on the front pages of the newspapers. Theres a parallel investigation under way. And whether the president from his own party get to declare on twitter every few days that the entire investigation is part of a witc
The Democratic National committees Unity Reform Commission was created in 2016. Its meeting this weekend for its final session here in the nations capital. The committees recommendations will be ed to update the d. N. C. s rules and bylaws and the committee will consider them for the 2018 election. It looks like itll be a few minutes to get under way as members make their way to the room. Well show you some portion of this mornings washington journal, congress this week passing the stopgap spending measure, funding the government through friday, december 22. We talked about that on this mornings washington journal and whats ahead. Host what exactly is in this measure . Guest its a clean stop gap spending bill. Almost nothing in this except keeping the funding going. Theres a small technical fix for the Childrens Health insurance program. This is just kicking the can down the road until the 22nd. Host why do this now . Guest they dont have a spending agreement yet. Congressional leaders
We are going to get started. We do have a quorum. Thanks to everyone for taking a break and coming back with us. We are going to continue as we have spent the morning going through the next section, which is party reform. Party reform is a big section and obviously covers a lot of topics, so i would like to highlight the key areas. And then we are going to be voting and amending, amending and then voting each section. So instead of going through everything, we will go through section by section and make amendments and vote. The key elements that we will be focusing on this afternoon, are recommendations that are focused in the following areas, the first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country, the second is supporting and growing state parties and increasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. And ourth is strengthening inclusive participatory culture at the d. N. C. Fifth, building on the great diverse q
The Democratic Partys made changes to its rules and how it chooses Convention Delegates to the dnc Unity Reform Commission met in washington d. C. To consider changes that include reducing the number of superdelegates that can vote on the president ial nomination. Dnc chair tom perez gave the opening march the opening march of this meeting right, good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here. I serve as the chair and im joined by my friend larry cohen who is vice chair the commission and i hereby call the final meeting of the Reform Commission to order. I would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask you to call the roll. Thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] we are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum and i wo
Joined by my friend larry cohen who is vice chair the commission and i hereby call the final meeting of the Reform Commission to order. I would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask you to call the roll. Thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] we are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum and i would like to start today by acknowledged in chairman perez who is here and we are very thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that for his leadership of the Democrat National party so we are really glad to be here. Good morning everyone. Thank you. I want to start off by saying thank you for your hard work. This was a very important exercise it was laborintensive and came to it with an open mind and with a rem