Department of health and Human Services. Mr. Todd park is the chief Technology Officer of the United States. Roekel is the chief Information Officer of the United States. Rules, asuant to the many of you will see, i was asked that you rise to take a sworn oath. Please raise your right hands. Do you swear or from the testimony you are about to give away the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth . But the record reflect that all answers all answered in the affirmative. This is a large panel. It is going to be a long day. Witnesses will be asked questions by both sides of the aisle. I would ask that since your Opening Statements are placed in the record verbatim that you adhere to the time clock and come to a halt as quickly as possible when its red. Yellow is not an opportunity to start a new subject. It is an opportunity to wrap up. With that, we will go to our distinguished guests, mr. Pounder. We appreciate the opportunity. O testify in july, i testified before the Sub Committ
They went back to their homes they could be hurt in the crossfire, in the violence. In all my meetings, security was the number one topic of concern from cabinet ministers, to u. N. Leaders, to refugees, they all spoke of the need to restore a sense of law and order in the country. This is the number one message or one to bring to you today. Is that they were concerned about the violence. When i asked for fiji is why they had fled they all mentioned fear of attack and concern for their families whenn i asked refugees why they had fled. I cannot reiterate strongly enough the importance of u. S. Government support to the African Union stabilization in c. A. R. Of security is essential to creating conditions that will one day permit these one million uprooted people to return home. Meanwhile, the u. S. Government is committed to working with the International Community to provide assistance inside c. A. R. And in neighboring countries and structure are aid programs to enhance efforts to p
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The work that was done during that tsunami in 2004 by crs. It is great to know that you were there making sure that happen because otherwise it would have been far worse than it actually was. I would like introduce ms. Madeleine rose is an advocacy advisor for mercycorps an aid agency. She leads mercycorps portfolios on subsaharan youth programs, counterterrorism, and humanitarian access, countering violent extremism and atrocity prevention. She has also worked for the committee on National Legislation in congress at the United Nations and with Community Based organizations in south africa and for netapp. We will then hear from mr. Caspar i hope i am pronouncing that correctly. Who is the ugandabased field researcher for the enough project. We had John Pendergrass here many times. His work focuses on the Lords Resistance Army and includes on the Ground Research and remote areas of uganda, south sudan, and the Central African republic that have been most affected by the lra crisis. His