They answered questions on expanding the committees reach and boosting effectiveness in the 2020 elections. Congressman Keith Ellison of minnesota and former labor secretary tom perez are among the speakers. Good evening. Good evening. Come on, lets clap. We made it through the storm. [ applause ] welcome to democracy in colors, Democratic National Committee Chair forum. Im amy allison. Were so thrilled that youre here and along with our partners and inclusive we want to welcome you warmly here today. Thanks so much for joining us here at George Washington university for this historic and important conversation about the future of the Democratic Party. We want to welcome our viewers on live stream who are joining us from across the country everywhere from ohio to florida to california to nevada and we look forward to your comments, your photos and your perspective, we can follow along the conversation. We also want to thank our partners jessica byrd and the raven group for making tonig
They answered questions on expanding the committees reach and boosting effectiveness in the 2020 elections. Congressman Keith Ellison of minnesota and former labor secretary tom perez are among the speakers. Good evening. Good evening. Come on, lets clap. We made it through the storm. [ applause ] welcome to democracy in colors, Democratic National Committee Chair forum. Im amy allison. Were so thrilled that youre here and along with our partners and inclusive we want to welcome you warmly here today. Thanks so much for joining us here at George Washington university for this historic and important conversation about the future of the Democratic Party. We want to welcome our viewers on live stream who are joining us from across the country everywhere from ohio to florida to california to nevada and we look forward to your comments, your photos and your perspective, we can follow along the conversation. We also want to thank our partners jessica byrd and the raven group for making tonig
Line up were ready to take some questions. Hi, my name is sean, and im from the university of san diego. So speaking about incentives for Congress People to take the long view, take the hard vote, what do you think in your opinion is the best solution to incentivizing individual Congress People to take the long view . Well, first of all, nobodys going to do something that deliberately and intentionally causes their loss. That wou defy the laws of nature. So im from kansas so if i went up and i said wheat programs are bad for this country, im going to vote against them my constituents would think i was nuts. Okay. Because im sent there to represent their views, their perspectives on as much as i can. But im also sent up this to use my own up there to use my own judgment with as well. And, you know, my judgment is that philosophically these jobs were not meant to be permanent jobs. There was meant to be turnover. It doesnt mean i believe in term limits but it means that people have to ha
What that means what else is changing that you need to know about. Good morning, it is thursday, january 1st, 2015, happy new year. What a new years eve it was at penns landing fireworks going off right at midnight. So caitlin, this is what woke you up in the middle of the night. Because i know you dont live too far from this . No, pretty close to penns landing, of course i was prepared, the fan was on, ear plugs were in, all of the measures were taken but no, you cant fight that. It went on for good 15 minutes, as always, i heard well today when i came in, that it was a beautiful show. And if you are watching us right now youre either still up from the night before, or maybe you do have to be up early like we do, too. Either way happy new year. Off to nice start again. Great weather we had yesterday if you didnt mind the chill. Well have the sunshine again today. It was colds as we said so long to 2014. 33 degrees the High Temperature yesterday well below the normal of 41. We will be
It was congresswoman nancy pelosi who got everyones attention earlier today. What we have to do for the fix is thread the needle. What theyre doing tomorrow on the floor is unraveling the whole fabric. Heres the number you need to know for today, 106,000. Thats how many people have enrolled in the obama care exchanges since the first of october. The other number that you need to know, 7 million. Thats the administrations goal for signups in year one and they barely cracked 1 . Divided democrats are expressing frustration and theyre turning up the heat on the president to get the job done. We believe this needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed now. I think we can get it fixed, but i do think that were going to have to take some kind of reparative action to reassure people that were trying to get it fixed. Today senator harry reid will meet with white house officials, and white house staffers will be meeting with the House Democrats today and tomorrow, members of the house will vote