The Day Two proposed schedule includes the General Session of the Committee, which will determine credential status for members before any other business, adopt the meeting agenda, receive committee reports, vote on proposed resolutions from the Resolutions Committee, adopt the rules of procedure for the officer elections, and any other business.
Call to Order
Presentation of the Colors
Pledge of Allegiance
Invocation
Welcome by Maryland Democratic Party Chair Ken Ulman
Welcome by Governor Wes Moore
Determination of a Quorum
Black History Month Acknowledgement by Virgie Rollins
The last DNC Party Officer Candidate Forum will be held on Thursday, January 30 starting at 3:00 p.m. ET. The DNC is partnering with MSNBC and the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service to co-host our next in-person officer candidate forum for qualified candidates in Washington D.C.
Location: Gaston Hall at Georgetown University
37th & O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20057
Attendance is closed to the public. DNC members in the audience will not be allowed to have signs, placards, banners or noisemakers in Gaston Hall. The Forum will also be livestreamed on the MSNBC and DNC YouTube channels. To be in the audience for the chair forum, members must have arrived at Gaston Hall by 7:15 pm.
The moderators for the Eastern Regional DNC Officer Forum include:
MSNBC anchors Jen Psaki, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Jonathan Capehart will moderate the forum for Chair candidates.
MSNBC guest anchor Luke Russert will moderate the forum for Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Participation candidates.
Mo Elleithee, Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, a Fox News contributor and DNC at-large member, will moderate the forums for Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and National Finance Chair candidates.
Elleithee has pledged neutrality and will not vote in the elections for the candidates he is moderating.
Questions from DNC members had to be submitted at least 48 hours before the forum to be considered.
This forum will focus on questions from DNC Members of the Eastern Region.
Precise schedule:
National Finance Chair: 3:05 - 3:25 PM ET
Treasurer: 3:35 - 3:55 PM ET
Secretary: 4:05 - 4:25 PM ET
Vice Chair for Civic Engagement & Voter Participation: 4:35 - 5:20 PM ET
Business meeting to vote on the nomination of Elise M. Stefanik, of New York, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations and the Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations.
“Americans had enough of that during Covid, of people using the crisis — that many people believe now was manufactured — in order to clamp down totalitarian controls and shift wealth upward. And they see a mirror of that in climate.”
When he was running for president, Kennedy hired Del Bigtree, an anti-vaccine activist who rejects climate science, as his communications director. He then endorsed Trump for president.
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Proxies must be submitted 24 hours prior in which the proxy is to be executed.
The Budget & Finance Committee meeting is closed.
The Resolutions Committee will be considering these resolutions which were submitted by the 21-day deadline for recommendation to the full assembly. In addition to resolutions honoring the Biden-Harris administration, Jimmy Carter, and other Democratic officials and party members, they include:
The Credentials Committee will consider the status of the Alabama delegation, which is contested. The state party chair, Rev. Randy B. Kelley, has submitted his own slate of delegates, challenging the credentials of previously elected DNC members. The committee will submit a recommendation for consideration by the full assembly, which will be its first order of business on Friday morning.
There will be no elections for Caucus or Council leadership at the upcoming Winter meeting. Caucus and Council voting will occur at the next full DNC Meeting.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nomination hearing for Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Nominee:
Howard Lutnick, of New York, to be Secretary of Commerce.
The largest agency in the Department of Commerce is the 12,000-employee National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Project 2025 calls for the breakup of NOAA and the privatization of weather forecasts.
Lutnick is the billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald.
In recent public interviews, Lutnick has reflected Trump’s positions on the Biden administration’s climate law, saying in an interview on Fox News last month that the Inflation Reduction Act should be called the “Inflation Creation Act.”
“You just pump this money out, eggs get more expensive, french fries, right?” said Lutnick. “It’s a hosing of America, and we’ve got to stop it.”
During an interview in late October, Lutnick called for cutting billions from agencies, including the Interior Department, which he said should more rightly be called the “department of all the land and mineral rights of the United States of America.”
Among the companies that Cantor Fitzgerald has invested in that have benefited significantly from the IRA are Invenergy, a renewable energy firm that is the top constituent of the Cantor Fitzgerald Infrastructure Fund.
The infrastructure fund has over $150 million in total net assets, according to a July press release, and its investment in Invenergy consists of 14.65% of that fund’s total investments. The fund is also heavily invested in NextEra Energy, the largest U.S. renewable energy developer.
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
“Americans had enough of that during Covid, of people using the crisis — that many people believe now was manufactured — in order to clamp down totalitarian controls and shift wealth upward. And they see a mirror of that in climate.”
When he was running for president, Kennedy hired Del Bigtree, an anti-vaccine activist who rejects climate science, as his communications director. He then endorsed Trump for president.
While there is currently no shortage of debate about the Democratic brand, questions about our data infrastructure and the broader information ecosystem in which we operate feel just as urgent. The next DNC Chair will have a tremendous opportunity to set a vision and a strategy that prioritizes innovation and that brings our Party into the future in how it manages its data, leverages technology, empowers its candidates, and reaches its voters on the channels and platforms where they actually spend their time.
During the 2024 Election Tech Debrief Conference, DNC chair candidates are invited to join virtually to share their plans around media and technology, only a few short days before the election. While the broader Election Tech Debrief conference is closed to the public, this panel will be open to a wider audience and broadcast live.
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