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President here. Thank you. This evening. Public comment on all items will be heard under section e. Public comment. This includes Public Comment for agenda non agenda items, a speaker card must be turned in to staff in order to speak. Oh if you just took out one of the speakers. Oh oh. Um okay. Accessibility information Translation Services and information on how to observe the meeting are all posted online at this time before the board goes into closed session, i call for any speakers to the cl...

This is nearly 45 minutes. Good morning, it is a pleasure to be here. Welcome to all our panelists and our guests. This is the original lightning talk, i will go to introductions, im jane muniga, im with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace african program. Im joined by three people in our international program. Joe, who is right next to me. Joseph azunka is the chief executive officer, hes previously been the Program Officer at william and flora hewlett foundation. I know they are onl...

Comment period can also be provided via phone call by. Calling 14156550001. Again, the phone number. Is 14156550001 access code is. 2660 399 a1441176. Again, access. Code 26639141176 followed by the pound sign. Then press pound again to join as an attendee when your item of interest comes up, press star three. To raise your hand to be added to the Public Comment line. Public comment is also available via the webex client application. Use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the rais...

Comment period can also be provided via phone call by. Calling 14156550001. Again, the phone number. Is 14156550001 access code is. 2660 399 a1441176. Again, access. Code 26639141176 followed by the pound sign. Then press pound again to join as an attendee when your item of interest comes up, press star three. To raise your hand to be added to the Public Comment line. Public comment is also available via the webex client application. Use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the rais...

[inaudible conversations] clicks thank you very much. The subcommittee will reconvene in. In the sixth district for five minutes. Clicks im going to write down the questions. Doing a great job leading to do a lot of stuff. I will save the flowering go to questions. I want to start with broadbent equity excess the program. And michigan almost 500,000 households are underserved are unserved or underserved by highspeed internet infrastructure another seven or 33 households face excess broadband. Ap...

North korea expert, scholar and author for the sister, dr. Sungyoon lee. His bio is on the website, but i do want highlight that outside of his Academic Work research. Chair dr. Lee has been an Expert Witness for us congressional. Hearings on north korea policy, including the Otto Warmbier versus dprk trial this evening. We have a unique opportunity to hear his insights about country that keeps us awake, continues to present challenging policy problems for the region and beyond and. As if that w...

Members of the armed forces for their service. That thinks is almost always genuine. Not everybody decides to either commit themselves to protecting the country or to putting their lives on hold for several years to protect the country. So we think that in many cases that for person has spent 2025, even 30 years in the military. They decide to start 2nd careers and Public Service and often in the service of other members of the military. Im not talking just about the pentagon of course, but also...

Affairs, that large govern mental bureaucracy created to help and to serve the countries veterans. But for multiple reasons, the department that has never run the way it was supposed to. Many veterans receive sub standard medical care, many are denied medications necessary to live their lives as normally as possible. And then another terrible development. According to military veteran project dot org 22 veterans commit suicide every single day. Saw me even do so in the parking lots of the vetera...

Not everybody decides to either commit themselves to protecting the country or to putting their lives on hold for several years to protect the country. So we think that in many cases, that for a person has spent 2025, even 30 years in the military, they decided to start 2nd careers in Public Service and often in the service of other members of the military. Im not talking just about the kind of golf course, but also about the department of Veterans Affairs. So many of our active duty Service Mem...

Members of the armed forces for their service. That thinks is almost always genuine. Not everybody decides to either commit themselves to protecting the country or to putting their lives on hold for several years to protect the country. So we think that in many cases, that for a person has spent 2025, even 30 years in the military, they decide to start 2nd careers and Public Service and often in the service of other members of the military. Im not talking just about the pentagon of course, but a...