The committee will come to order. Good morning to everyone and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that, i will now recognize myself for my Opening Statement. I am honored to be convening todays hearing. My very first as chairwoman. As we continue to mourn the loss of our dear friend and colleague, chairman elijah cummings. And as i sit here today in his chair, i am mindful of his Lifelong Mission to seek not only Common Ground but higher ground. With that in mind, i am very pleased to hold todays hearing on an issue we have been fighting for, for many years. The need for comprehensive paid, family, and medical leave. It is an important its important for people to understand the Current Situation in our country. Right now, we are one of only two nations in the world that does not provide our workers with any form of paid family or medical leave. The United States and papua new guinea. I remember when i was pregnant with my f
[inaudible conversations] lets get started and i will have a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan we have been doing a series of events over the last year we recently hosted a couple of weeks ago we could not have done this about the of partnership and as a friend thinks for everything. We will have been interesting and conversation today when i think about people who were qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cannot think of the of better person turning afghanistan around that usa id. To serve some of the toughest places in the world a patriot and a friend a qualified individual they got he raised his hand to do public service. [applause] it is very nice to see my old friends here in the audience is a particular that has been done in afghanistan for those of you that i have not met and i would like to say some words about the south asia strategy with the very few point on how that applies to usaid role and i will mention in pakistan and then
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