The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.
Proxy form for General Session and Party Officer Elections.
The Rules and Bylaws Committee previously met and adopted rules of procedure for the officer elections to recommend to the full assembly for adoption at the General Session on January 31, consistent with the DNC bylaws, which state that the DNC is responsible for:
“providing for the election or appointment of a Chairperson, five Vice Chairpersons, one of
whom shall be the President of the Association of State Democratic Committees and one
of whom shall be the Vice Chairperson for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation, a
Treasurer, a Secretary, and a National Finance Chair, who, with the exception of the
Chairperson, shall be as equally divided as practicable according to gender at the
quadrennial election, as defined in the Democratic National Committee Charter, Article
Nine, Section 16 [Ed.: should be 15]”
The order of elections, according to the proposed rules of procedure, is:
- Chair
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- National Finance Chair
- Vice Chairperson for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation
- and the three other Vice Chairpersons
The DNC charter requires the eight officers other than the Chair to be balanced by gender, which is done by restricting the candidates for the last three Vice Chairs if necessary. As only seven are elected at the Winter Meeting (the eighth is the to-be-elected president of the Association of State Democratic Committees), the balance will be off by one (unless an officer is non-binary).
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| 8:00am - 11:00am | DNC Registration | Maryland Ballroom Foyer
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| 10:00am - 9:00pm | Party Officer Candidate Elections | Maryland Ballroom A-D
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Democratic National Committee
Maryland
02/01/2025 at 10:00AM
Join Climate Defiance to shut down the DNC’s winter meeting and demand an end to the unholy alliance of fossil fuel money and party politics!
Democrats failed us in 2024. They sold out to the highest bidders – fossil fuel companies, crypto scumbags, and robber barons – and still lost to Trump.
January 31-February 1, the Democratic National Committee is meeting in National Harbor, Maryland to select a new party chair and chart their path out of last year’s catastrophe.
We’re converging on National Harbor a simple message: choose people, not profits.
We will build a climate populist movement. We will defeat the climate criminals who eviscerate our world for profit. Anyone who claims to be “progressive” must stand up to Big Oil – we will make sure they do.
Join us January 31 in National Harbor, Maryland. Sign up here.
Climate Defiance
Maryland
01/31/2025 at 09:00AM
The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.
The Day Two proposed schedule includes the General Session of the Committee, which will 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.
Proxy form for General Session and Party Officer Elections.
Proxy form for Caucuses and Councils.
Proxy form for Standing Committees.
Proxies must be submitted 24 hours prior in which the proxy is to be executed.
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
01/31/2025 at 08:00AM
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 in Washington D.C.
Location: Gaston Hall at Georgetown University
37th & O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20057
If you are attending as a DNC member, please RSVP through this form. If candidate staff or guests are attending the Forum, they should complete this form as well. The Forum will also be livestreamed on the DNC YouTube channel.
The moderators for the Eastern Regional DNC Officer Forum include:
- Jen Psaki, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Jonathan Capehart will moderate the forum for Chair candidates.
- Luke Russert will moderate the forum for Vice Chair of Civic Engagement and Voter Participation candidates.
- Mo Elleithee will moderate the forums for Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and National Finance Chair candidates.
All DNC Members are encouraged to submit questions for all forums using this form. Questions must 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.
Democratic National Committee
District of Columbia
01/30/2025 at 03:00PM
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.
The nomination hearing took place on January 21st.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
419 Dirksen
01/30/2025 at 10:25AM
Full committee hearing.
Kennedy’s vaccine denial and covid conspiratorialism has infected his rhetoric on climate change as well.
“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
562 Dirksen
01/30/2025 at 10:00AM
Full committee hearing.
Nominee:
- Kashyap “Kash” Pramod Patel, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Patel is a Q Anon grifter.
Senate Judiciary Committee
216 Hart
01/30/2025 at 09:30AM
The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.
Proxy form for General Session and Party Officer Elections.
Proxy form for Caucuses and Councils.
Proxy form for Standing Committees.
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.
The Rules and Bylaws Committee previously met and adopted rules of procedure for the officer elections to recommend to the full assembly for adoption.
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.
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| 7:30am - 7:00pm | DNC Registration | Maryland Ballroom Foyer
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| 8:00am - 8:45am | Budget & Finance Committee | Cherry Blossom
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| 9:00am - 10:00am | Credentials Committee | Cherry Blossom
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| 11:00am - 1:00pm | Resolutions Committee | Cherry Blossom
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | LGBTQ Caucus | Maryland A
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Small Business Council | Maryland 1-2
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Rural Council | Maryland A
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Seniors Council | Maryland B
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Interfaith Council | Maryland 3-4
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Poverty Council | Maryland C
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| 3pm - | Democratic National Committee Party Officer Candidate Forum | Georgetown University, DC
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Democratic National Committee
Maryland
01/30/2025 at 08:00AM
The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.
- 4:00pm - 7:00pm DNC Registration Maryland Ballroom Foyer
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm Chair Harrison’s Reception Cherry Blossom
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
01/29/2025 at 06:00PM
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-employee National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Project 2025 calls for the breakup of NOAA and the privatization of weather forecasts.
E & E News:
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.”
Reuters:
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
253 Russell
01/29/2025 at 10:00AM