DNC Rules Committee Meets Later Today

At 11:30AM local time (1:30PM Atlanta time), the Rules Committee for the 2008 Democratic National Convention will meet for the first time to adopt the permanent rules of procedure for the conduct of business inside the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field.

The DNC Rules Committee has 186 members including five from Georgia:

Ambassador Gordon Giffin;
Evelyn Hall;
Don Roman;
Rachel E. Rosenblatt; and
Brian Wertheim.

Also on the agenda for the Rules Committee is the Obama proposal to create a delegate selection reform commission that will look at making changes to the way Democrats select the Party's presidential nominee.