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In North Carolina, charlotte. A special yeah. Give it up to the queen city. I want to thank especially our esteemed guests. I would lick to thank the members of the first bipartisan here. When i started 8 years ago, i had no idea that we would grow to have more than 100 members but now 8 years in i know that the strength is a strength of how much support we had. Last year we were about to get ignite funding for hbcu through appropriations. Because of the work that we did, 50 million in grants are available to our schools. All right. [applause] make transformative investment and, of course, this includes research productivity, fact ultimatey expertise, graduate programs. Human capital leading to external funding. The investments made in our schools today in investment in the future and so i just yaws myself as an example. I am a living testament for importance of hbcu. My mother raised me. She did domestic work. She was not formall ....
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I want to thank you for coming back, personnel from the break i went to welcome my panelists took thank you for being willing to participate. Obviously is the topic du jour i would say for Election Administrators as well as folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election Cyber Security and securing the elections process. Just as a way of the background this topic is obviously the top of jews your coming out of the 2016 election where we saw a nation state state level election systems through registration as well as vendors and spear phishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of election with Critical Infrastructure by the department of Homeland Security, ....
Thank you for hosting me with hese students today. And i thank you, students, for allowing me to be part of this conversation with you. You and hundreds of your peers across the campus we hope will continue the intellectual journey thats higher education. I loved my education experience so much and i suspect you do too. You will discover new areas of knowledge, you will engage in debate, great and small and many of the views you have will be challenged and some of your views may even change. You will if your institutions follow our nations historic and Cultural Education traditions, pursue truth while growing in mind and spirit. In short, we hope youll take part in the right of every american, free, robust, sometimes Contentious Exchange of ideas. As you exercise these rights, realize how precious, how rare, and how fragile they are. In most societies throughout his ....