I know called to order for purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the congressional workplace, examining reforms and a crack Congressional Accountability Act. The record will remain open for five legislative days to include materials. Record is present we will proceed i ask for unanimous consent the committee on ethics chairwoman brooks, et never present tuesday appointed to sit and question the Witnesses Today. Without objection so ordered hour by to think theo witnesses for taking time of a busy schedules to be here. We are appreciative of that. First and foremost, let me reiterate there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society especially in congress. Period. And one case of Sexual Harassment is one case to many. The speaker of the house, paul ryan task of this committee with extensive review and we take that responsibility very seriously to hold ourselves as a higher standard that we are worthy of the trust by the constituents since the last hearin
Hour by to think theo witnesses for taking time of a busy schedules to be here. We are appreciative of that. First and foremost, let me reiterate there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society especially in congress. Period. And one case of Sexual Harassment is one case to many. The speaker of the house, paul ryan task of this committee with extensive review and we take that responsibility very seriously to hold ourselves as a higher standard that we are worthy of the trust by the constituents since the last hearing on November November 14th it surfaced about the related settlements of the rising under the Congressional Accountability Act these issues not only is it is time with the appropriate for the committee to review the policy goals and what we need to do to evaluate with the bipartisan goal of zero tolerance the Congressional Accountability Act has not been reviewed since 1995 to update the policies and procedures it requires all house members including paid and unpaid i
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
Those delegates who are in category three will be allocated similar to category two as follows. The dnc would announce the noegation of category three later than five days after the last nominating contest the allocated the pledged delegates. If there are insufficient in category three candidates, alternate delegates would be elevated to provide the needed president ial preferences. Once the dnc has achieved the requisite number of supporters for each candidate, the dnc seven collect a written president ial preference from each candidate and delegate as applicable. The dnc shall make public the identity of each category three delegate and any alternates as applicable, and the candidate for which they have submitted a president ial preference. If the states chair or the dnc determines there is still an insufficient number of category two or three delegates respectively, supporting candidates proportionately, after attending to allocate alternate delegates, the states whichdnc will deter
Topics. Id like to highlight the key areas were focused on. And then we are going to be voting and amending. Amending and then voting each section. So there will be instead of going through party reform, section by section, make amendments and then discuss and vote. The key elements on party reform that were going to 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 inning creasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. The fourth is strengthening an inclusive anticipatory culture at the dnc. The fifth, building on the great diversity of our party. The sixth, connecting our values and our actions and the 7th promoting and protecting the vote. So for each of those sections that i just highlighted, we will stay focused in those sections of Commission Members as we g