Domestic Policy Council - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Domestic Policy Council Index / Organizations Transcripts Stephanie Cutter ...Wing team to get it done, certainly the Domestic Policy Council . Heather Higginbottom was ver... Alan Bersin ...Muñoz, Esther Olavarria, and the DPC [Domestic Policy Council] and th... ...Muñoz, Esther Olavarria, and the DPC [ Domestic Policy Council ] and the people in the administratio... Patrick Gaspard ...affairs versus being the head of DPC [Domestic Policy Council], literall... ...affairs versus being the head of DPC [ Domestic Policy Council ], literally every intern in th... Marielena Hincapié ...of Homeland Security [DHS], and the DPC , the Domestic Policy Council. ... ...Security [DHS], and the DPC, the Domestic Policy Council . I personally actually did not mee... ...meetings at all with Cecilia Muñoz at DPC ? Yes. Cecilia was part of almost al... David Simas ...[NEC], the deputy in the National Domestic Policy Council , the deputy in the agencies, th... ...principals. So the NEC director, the Domestic Policy Council director, the secretary of Homelan... ...Cecilia Muñoz, who was head of the Domestic Policy Council , lovely human being, super smart, bu... Cecilia Muñoz ...[IGA], and also the director of the Domestic Policy Council [DPC], and was a member of th... ...of the Domestic Policy Council [ DPC ], and was a member of th... ...Felicia Escobar [Carrillo], who led the Domestic Policy Council 's immigration team the whole eigh... ...Affairs, then director of the Domestic Policy Council , serving in the administration for al... ...first time, under President Obama, the Domestic Policy Council also had an office dedicated to polic... ...by Jodi, actually. When I was at the Domestic Policy Council , Jodi served in a policy role. Amon... ...ring to interview for the director of Domestic Policy Council . Could you talk about the decision t... ...interview what your vision was for the Domestic Policy Council job? It's funny because I was in th... ...it was January tenth when I started at DPC . And that was the year that Jack Le... ...but it was not so much the way that DPC or NEC [National Economic Council] di... ...you were much better suited for the Domestic Policy Council job than the Intergovernmental Affair... ...I know that I was more suited for the DPC job than for the IGA job is because ... ...really. How would you explain the DPC job to an outsider? What was it tha... ...that you were doing? Yeah. The actual Domestic Policy Council is a council. It consists of the—it'... ...the federal infrastructure and at the Domestic Policy Council do the first cut at brainstorming an... ...Partnerships were also part of DPC . So yes, it's enormous. It'... ...going to work for me. I tried to be the DPC director who—if healthcare was on th... ...that process was also led out of the DPC for the White House, also with th... ...team of folks from the agencies and the Domestic Policy Council who physically relocated to the Hill... ...ways, that's a classic example of how DPC should function, which is facilitatin... ...with Congress change over your years at DPC ? Are there conversations about, W... ...Education Act. The White House, and DPC in particular, was very, very deepl... ...one of the first documents out of the Domestic Policy Council 's education team under Melody Barne... ...was the blueprint for this bill. The DPC team worked on it all eight years... ...especially in the last few years at DPC . A, why were you writing those? And b... ...Affairs, then director of the Domestic Policy Council , serving in the administration for al... ...by the National Security Council and DPC . There was a work stream that wa... ...Intergovernmental Affairs director. The DPC staff at the time, Roberto Rodríguez... ...time, Roberto Rodríguez, who led the DPC education team all eight years, wer... ...It was a partnership between the DPC staff, really led by my deputy, Jame... ...guy, Roberto Rodríguez, who led the DPC education team, and the Department o... ...again, along with Roberto from the DPC team, in close collaboration with th... Show more... Sharon Block ...structure of the law look like? Then DPC [Domestic Policy Council] is involved... ...of the law look like? Then DPC [ Domestic Policy Council ] is involved, and we have to explai... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Democrats Democrats