October 19 - Day One: Diagnosing the problem

9:00am-10:30am - Session I: Framing the Problem

• How responsible? Executive action and the administrative state
• How effective? Performance successes and failures

10:30am-10:45am: Break

10:45am-12:15pm - Session II:  Presidency and Congress

• Presidency v. Congress: What’s working and what’s not?  

12:15pm-1:00pm: Break 

1:00pm-2:30pm - Session III: Presidency, the courts, and the people

• Presidency and the courts: Who judges a president? Who enforces the law? 
• Do presidents drive polarization or vice versa?

October 20 - Day Two: Exploring solutions

 9:00am-10:30am - Session I: Rules, norms, parties, and the selection process 

• Understanding previous reforms: the evolution of rules, norms, practices
• Fixing the parties and the presidential selection process

10:30am-10:45am: Break

10:45am-12:15pm - Session II: Repairing presidency-Congress relations: Legislative outcomes and confirmations  

• Encouraging greater legislative effectiveness and executive-legislative collaboration
• Resetting the appointment bottleneck: navigating vacancies and acting appointees

12:15pm-1:00pm: Break 

1:00pm-2:30pm - Session III: Emergency powers and presidential constraint 

• Fixing emergency powers: Can we balance the president's needs with congressional and judicial oversight?
• Fixing presidential accountability: Who should police the president?

5:00pm-6:15pm - Covering the White House, a special event at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, VA

This event is hosted and produced by the University of Virginia's Karsh Institute of Democracy and the Miller Center of Public Affairs as part of Democracy360, a vibrant exploration of democracy from every angle

A panel of esteemed journalists—moderated by PBS correspondent Judy Woodruff—offers insights on what it takes to report on the inner workings of the White House, especially in times of crisis.