I thought it might be useful to know the members of the Credentials Committee
Elected to chair the Credentials Committee are Alexis Herman, James Roosevelt, Jr. and Eliseo Roques-Arroyo. Alexis Herman served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1997 to 2001. She served as DNC Chief of Staff for Chairman Ron Brown and later was named CEO of the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Since 2005, she has served as a Co-Chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee and also served as a Co-Chair of the Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling. James Roosevelt, Jr. is President and CEO of Tufts Health Plan, a Massachusetts based Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and was formerly Associate Commissioner for Retirement Policy of the Social Security Administration in the Clinton Administration. He is the chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and Co-Chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee. Eliseo Roques-Arroyo, a native of Puerto Rico, served as Executive Assistant to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Senate Minority Leader Miguel Hernandez-Agosto and to Puerto Rico Delegate to Congress Antonio J. Colorado. He is a former Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico and presently a member of the DNC.
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2 out of 3 Clinton, or 3 out of 3?
And they're just the chairs--i hear the candidates get to put people on it too, no?
The FL and MI election question falls under Rules & Bylaws
Not the Credentials Committee. (Membership and biographies of all three standing Committees – Credentials, Platform and Rules – are here as DCblogger noted.)
All the decisions made so far around validating the FL and MI elections have been under Rules & Bylaws, and the matter is still theirs to decide. The decision has not been about who is a legitimate delegate - a question of credentialing - but rather it has been about whether or not there has been a legitimate selection procedure - a question of rules. Only if Rules decides to allow some delegates from FL or MI to be selected will Credentials have a say.
Unless there’s a challenge from another source of delegates, from say a rump caucus of Democrats in MI that select an alternative slate, then the Credentials Committee will rubber stamp whatever Rules has decided. If there is a 50% penalty and some selected delegates challenge others, then again Credentials would be involved but that is even less likely.
well if the FL and MI delegates show up...
its the credentials committee that will have to decide whether they get credentialed.
As far as I know, the decision of the Rules and Bylaws committee re: allowing some states to break the rules, and others not to, was never confirmed by the DNC as a whole. If that is the case, then we have a case where the Credentials Committee could simply say that absent a vote by the entire DNC, it will be making its own decision regarding who gets credentialled, and who doesn't.
Hard to project what might happen once the Convention is called
to order, which is one reason why Pelosi and now Reid have said it will all be settled before then.
The Rules and Bylaws Committee holds the power to decide, and needs no confirmation. That authority was delegated by resolution of the 2004 Convention; they are empowered by the Party.
Absent a variance by the Rules Committee or a new state caucus/convention/election that plausibly meets the requirements of the Party, the Credentials Committee has no power to hear any appeal from would-be delegates from FL and MI any more than from someone walking in off the street.