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Updated 08/20/2012 01:45 PM

RNC officials release theme, event schedule for day 1 of convention

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday announced a schedule of events for the first night of the Republican National Convention, which will have the theme "We Can Do Better.

The convention begins Monday, Aug. 27 in Tampa. Among those speaking that night will be House Speaker John Boehner, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ann Romney, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Aug. 27 Schedule of Events


2:00 pm
• Chairman of the RNC Reince Priebus
• Color Guard
• Pledge of Allegiance
• National Anthem: The Oak Ridge Boys
• Invocation
• Opening procedural steps, appointment of convention committees
• Welcoming remarks, and House and Senate candidates and RNC auxiliaries
• RNC Chairman Priebus
• RNC Co-Chairman Sharon Day
• Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn
• Convention Chief Executive Officer William Harris
• Chairman of Tampa Bay Host Committee Al Austin
• Republican Congressional Candidates
• State Delegate Barbara Comstock (VA)
• Representative Tim Griffin (AR)
• Republican Senate Candidates
• Republican National Committee auxiliaries
• Consideration of convention committee reports
• RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
• Committee on Credentials Chairman Mike Duncan
• Committee on Permanent Organization Chairwoman Zoraida Fonalledas
• Convention Permanent Chairman Speaker John Boehner, Presiding
• Official Convention Photograph
• Committee on Rules Chairman John Sununu
• Committee on Resolutions Chairman Governor Bob McDonnell
• Committee on Resolutions Co-Chairman Senator John Hoeven
• Committee on Resolutions Co-Chairman Rep. Marsha Blackburn
• Roll Call for Nomination of President of the United States
• Roll Call for Nomination of Vice President of the United States

7:15 p.m.
Recess

7:45 p.m.
• Remarks by Speaker John Boehner
• Remarks by Governor Rick Scott (FL)
• Remarks by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
• Video
• Remarks by Senator Rand Paul (KY)
• Various Speakers
• Remarks by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA)
• To Be Announced
• Remarks by Artur Davis and video
• Remarks by Senate Republican Candidate Ted Cruz (TX)
• Musical Act
• Remarks by Governor Nikki Haley (SC)
• Remarks by Mike Huckabee
• Remarks by Mrs. Luce' Vela Fortuno
• Remarks by Mrs. Ann Romney
• Benediction by Sammy Rodriguez and adjournment.