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Republican
National
Convention
Committees
(page revised
June 17, 2016)
Committee on Rules and Order of Business (Rules Committee)
"The RNC
Rules Committee has been reviewing and modifying the Rules
of the Republican Party for the past three years. These amendments will
be presented to
the RNC and then to the Convention Rules Committee, which will
review these changes and propose final Rules, as amended, for adoption
by the convention."
Chairman Enid Mickelsen (UT)
Co-Chair Ron Kaufman (MA)
(announced June 17, 2016)
Committee on Credentials
"The
Credentials Committee will receive the credentials of each
delegate filed in accordance with the Rules and submit the temporary
roll of the convention,
which will have been previously reviewed by the RNC. The Credentials
Committee may hear and resolve appeals to the ruling of any contest
adjudicated by the
RNC Committee on Contests, as to the seating of delegates to the
convention."
Chairman Mike Duncan (KY)
Co-Chair Doyle Webb (AR)
(announced June 3, 2016)
Committee on Organization
"RNC Chairman
Reince Priebus selects a number of convention officers,
including the Permanent and Temporary Chairmen, the Secretary and the
Sergeant-at-Arms. The Permanent Organization Committee will meet at
the beginning of the convention to review the slate and make its
recommendation to the
convention."
Chairman Former Gov. Haley Barbour (MS)
Co-Chair Mary Buestrin (WI)
(announced June 17, 2016)
Committee on Resolutions (Platform Committee)
(announced May 24, 2016)
Chairman Sen. John Barrasso (WY)
Co-Chair Gov. Mary Fallin (OK)
Co-Chair U.S.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC)
Platform Committee Staff
Executive Director Ben Key
Also served as executive director of the 2012 platform
committee. COO of Eagle Express, Inc. since Sept. 2014, and
senior counsel and strategist at Silver Bullet LLC from May 2013, in
Dallas, TX External affairs in the chairman's office at the
RNC, Jan.-May 2012 and Sept. 2012-April 2013.
President of Key Consulting, 2008-11. Executive vice president of
sales and marketing for Reddy Ice, 1997-2008. President of Key
Consulting, Inc., 1994-97. Senior vice president at Foster &
Associates, 1988-1994. Partner at Marsh & Key Consulting,
1984-88. Chief of staff to Republican caucus leader Pat Nolan in
the California legislature, 1984. Field representative for
Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr., 1977-82. Field representative
on the President Ford Committee, Fall 1976. B.A. in economics
from UCLA, 1976.
Policy Director Andrew Bremberg
Policy
director for Gov. Scott Walker's presidential campaign and earlier at
his Our American Revivial. Policy advisor and counsel on
nominations to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, March 2014-May
2015. Department manager at MITRE, Feb. 2009-Feb. 2014.
Chief of staff in the Office of Public Health and Science (July
2007-Jan. 2009), special assistant in the immediate Office of the
Secretary (July 2005-July 2007) and special assistant to the Executive
Secretary (July 2001-July 2005) at the Department of Health and Human
Services. J.D. from The Catholic University of America's Columbus
School of Law, 2006; B.A. in psychology and theology from Franciscan
University of Steubenville, 2001.
Editor William Gribbin
Gribbin was also editor of the 2012 and 2008 Republican platforms. Director of legislative affairs for Vice President Dan Quayle. Deputy assistant to the President for legislative affairs in the first year of the Reagan administration. Staffer on the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Aide/speechwriter to Sen. James L. Buckley (NY), 1975-76. Ph.D. in American history from Catholic University.
Assistant Editor Eric Ueland
Republican staff director at the U.S. Senate
Budget Committee from June 2013. Vice president at the Duberstein
Group, April 2007-June 2013. Staffer in the U.S. Senate,
1989-2007 including chief of staff to the U.S. Senate Majority Leader,
Jan. 2005-Jan. 2007; chief of staff to the Assistant Republican Leader
in the Senate, Jan. 1999-Dec. 2002; and staff on the Senate Republican
Policy Committee, 1989-96. Bachelor's degree in history from
University of San Francisco, 1988.
Executive Assistant Mary Salvi
Most recently working at a paralegal at Salvi &
Maher LLC as well
as a private tutor and barista. Bachelor's degree in political
science and arts and letters pre-professional from University of Notre
Dame, 2015.
David Schiappa, Parliamentarian
Justin Riemer, Counsel
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, Clerk
Allison Curry, Clerk
Sloane Skinner, Clerk
Karen Portik, Graphic Designer
Marcia Brown, Production
Sheila Berkley, Platform Consultant
Mike Mears, Director of Strategic Partnerships
Rachel Packebush, Intern
Administrative Team
Brian O’Malley, Ed Cowling, Blake Glovitz, Kim Owens, Will Gillette,
Gordon James
Court Reporter
Stephen Mengelkamp, Nate Riveness
Policy Staff
Restoring the American Dream
Jeff Schlagenhauf
Eric Ueland
A Rebirth of Constitutional Government
Stephen Higgins
Robert Porter
America’s Natural Resources:
Agriculture, Energy, and the Environment
Brian Clifford
Justin Memmott
Government Reform
Danielle Cutrona
Katy Talento
Great American Families, Education,
Healthcare, and Criminal Justice
Katie Altshuler
Cyrus Artz
America Resurgent
Jonathan Burks
Michael Stransky
Robert Wilkie