Vote on the nomination of Brooke Rollins to be Secretary of Agriculture

Full committee business meeting.

Nominee:

  • Brooke Rollins, to be Secretary of Agriculture

The nomination of Brooke Rollins was reported favorably by a unanimous vote of all members of the committee, 23-0

The former CEO and president of the extremist Texas Public Policy Foundation and the CEO of the America First Policy Institute, Rollins is a climate denier. She claimed, at a climate-denial conference held by Heartland Institute in 2018, that “We know the research of CO2 being a pollutant is just not valid.”

At her nomination hearing, Rollins defiantly supported the mass deportation of undocumented farmworkers.

Democrats voting in the affirmative:

  • Amy Klobuchar, Ranking Member
  • Michael Bennet
  • Tina Smith
  • Dick Durbin
  • Cory Booker
  • Ben Ray Luján
  • Raphael Warnock
  • Peter Welch
  • John Fetterman
  • Elissa Slotkin
Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
S-216 Capitol

02/03/2025 at 05:45PM

Rally at Office of Personnel Management to Stop the Musk Coup

Each morning, a peaceful protest outside of the Office of Personnel Management headquarters at 1900 E St NW from 7:30 am to 8:30 am, with coffee and donuts.

Bring megaphones and friends and a fork. Wear a mask.

Take the security measures right for you.

Fork Off Coalition
District of Columbia
02/03/2025 at 07:30AM

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DNC Winter Meeting: Day Three - Officer Elections

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 rules were not fully consistent with the bylaws, as they state:

In the election of the three remaining Vice Chairpersons, provision will be made to elect the appropriate number of persons of each gender to ensure that, with the exception of the National Chairperson and the President of the Association of State Democratic Committees (“ASDC”), the officers shall be as equally divided as practicable according to gender in accordance with Article 3, Section 1(e) of the Charter. [Ed.: emphasis added]

The rules of procedure remove the ASDC President from the gender balance rules, in apparent violation of the bylaws.

The rules were adopted without amendment at the Friday session. The order of elections, according to the 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).

January 29January 30January 31February 1
timeeventlocation
8:00am - 11:00am DNC Registration Maryland Ballroom Foyer
10:00am - 9:00pm Party Officer Candidate Elections Maryland Ballroom A-D

Qualified Candidates

(updated: bold indicates the winner)

For Chair:

  • Quintessa Hathaway
  • Ken Martin
  • Martin O’Malley
  • Jason Paul
  • Faiz Shakir
  • Nate Snyder
  • Ben Wikler
  • Marianne Williamson

For Treasurer:

  • Merika Coleman
  • Matt Hughes
  • Virginia McGregor (i)

For Secretary:

  • Marilyn Davis
  • Jason Rae (i)

For National Finance Chair:

  • Chris Korge (i)
  • Tim Lim

Candidates for Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation:

  • Joyce Beatty
  • Michael Blake
  • Josh Burstein
  • Jim McBride
  • Sheikh Rahman
  • Rosarie Tucci
  • Reyna Walters-Morgan
  • Nikema Williams

Candidates for Vice Chair

  • Joe Barbuto
  • Troy Blackwell
  • Artie Blanco
  • Waikinya Clanton
  • Shasti Conrad
  • Michelle Deatrick
  • Aisha Dew
  • Kalyn Free
  • Adam Frisch
  • David Hogg
  • Chris Jones
  • Malcolm Kenyatta
  • Joe Paolino
  • Jeanna Repass
  • Robert Stephens
  • James Zogby

Full proposed agenda:

  1. Call to Order
  2. Presentation of the Colors
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Land Acknowledgement
  5. Invocation
  6. Determination of a Quorum
  7. Welcome Congressman Glenn Ivey
  8. Election of Party Officers
    1. National Chair
    2. Treasurer
    3. Secretary
    4. National Finance Chair
    5. Vice Chair of Civic Engagement & Voter Participation
    6. Vice Chairs
  9. Closing Remarks
  10. Announcements
  11. Benediction
  12. Adjournment
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
02/01/2025 at 10:00AM

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Shut Down the DNC

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

DNC Winter Meeting: Day Two

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 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.

  1. Call to Order
  2. Presentation of the Colors
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Invocation
  5. Welcome by Maryland Democratic Party Chair Ken Ulman
  6. Welcome by Governor Wes Moore
  7. Determination of a Quorum
  8. Black History Month Acknowledgement by Virgie Rollins
  9. Lunar New Year Acknowledgement by Bel Leong-Hong
  10. Credentials Committee Report
  11. Resolutions Committee Report
  12. Budget and Finance Committee Report
  13. Rules and Bylaws Committee Report
  14. Remarks by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
  15. Remarks by Congressman Jamie Raskin
  16. Remarks by Chair Harrison
  17. Announcements
  18. Adjournment

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.

January 29January 30January 31February 1
timeeventlocation
7:30am - 5:00pm DNC Registration Maryland Ballroom Foyer
8:00am - 10:00am General Session Maryland Ballroom A-D
10:00am - 11:30amDisability Caucus Cherry Blossom
10:00am - 11:30amLabor CouncilMaryland 1-2
11:45am - 1:15pmEastern Regional Caucus Maryland 1-2
11:45am - 1:15pmSouthern Regional Caucus Maryland 3-4
11:45am - 1:15pmMidwestern Regional Caucus Maryland 5-6
11:45am - 1:15pmWestern Regional Caucus Cherry Blossom
1:30pm - 3:00pmWomen's Caucus Cherry Blossom
3:15pm - 4:45pmBlack Caucus Cherry Blossom
3:15pm - 4:45pmHispanic Caucus Maryland 1-2
3:15pm - 4:45pmAAPI Caucus Maryland 3-4
3:15pm - 4:45pm Native Caucus Maryland 5-6
5:00pm - 6:30pmYouth Council Maryland 1-2
5:00pm - 6:30pmEthnic Council Maryland 3-4
5:00pm - 6:30pm Environmental and Climate Crisis Council Maryland 5-6
5:00pm - 6:30pmVeterans and Military Families Council Cherry Blossom
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
01/31/2025 at 08:00AM

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Eastern DNC Party Officer Candidate Forum

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
  • Vice Chair (1 of 2): 5:30 - 6:20 PM ET
  • Vice Chair (2 of 2): 6:30 -7:20 PM ET
  • Chair: 7:40 - 9:10 PM ET

First set of vice chair candidates:

  • Adam Frisch
  • Chris Jones
  • Joe Barbuto
  • Troy Blackwell
  • Malcolm Kenyatta
  • Artie Blanco
  • David Hogg
  • Jeanna Repass

Second set of vice chair candidates:

  • Shasti Conrad
  • James Zogby
  • Michelle Deatrick
  • Waikinya Clanton
  • Joe Paolino
  • Aisha Dew
  • Kalyn Free
  • Robert Stephens
Democratic National Committee
District of Columbia
01/30/2025 at 03:00PM

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Vote on the nomination of Elise Stefanik to be the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations

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

Nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services

Full committee hearing. Kennedy’s hearing before the Finance committee is on January 29th.

Nominee:

  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services

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

DNC Winter Meeting: Day One

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. 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.

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.

January 29January 30January 31February 1
timeeventlocation
7:30am - 7:00pm DNC Registration Maryland Ballroom Foyer
8:00am - 8:45am Budget & Finance CommitteeCherry Blossom
9:00am - 10:00am Credentials Committee Cherry Blossom
11:00am - 1:00pm Resolutions Committee Cherry Blossom
12:30pm - 2:00pm LGBTQ Caucus Maryland A
2:00pm - 3:30pm Small Business Council Maryland 1-2
2:00pm - 3:30pm Rural Council Maryland A
2:00pm - 3:30pm Seniors Council Maryland B
2:00pm - 3:30pm Interfaith Council Maryland 3-4
2:00pm - 3:30pm Poverty Council Maryland C
3pm - Democratic National Committee Party Officer Candidate Forum Georgetown University, DC
Democratic National Committee
Maryland
01/30/2025 at 08:00AM

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