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[roll call] at this time we ask that you silence also phones and sound producing devices. Thank you. May i have a motion to approve the agenda . So moved. Second. Any discussion . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. May i have a motion to approve the august 7th, 2019 Meeting Minutes . So moved. Second. Any comments or changes . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. Item four, directors report. Good morning, commissioners. I just want to start with the Older Americans act. I usually start with the federal level and i wanted to give you a report that the Older Americans the Congress Passed...

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of National Service. Let me make a few brief comments to begin with. In such divided and turbulent times, we must look for ways to bridge society, to bridge the divides and to restore a sense of com...

Exactly as jane wrote it. Whats new and news worthy. Get some of the latest information about Addiction Recovery research. Years ago, i kept trying to convince dr. Clark that the best way to have any kind of research is to put a chip in the ear and track people as they come into oxford house and leave oxford house. Dr. Clark was then director of c set and used to suggest that my attitude was a bit of republican conservatism and not very american. Here, here. However, today, as years have passed, i have a thing on my wrist called a fitbit that keeps track of every step i take. I look at people ...

Okay. Oneminute warning. That invigorated people. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. Ill have to remember that. Well, its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston, a senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program here at brookings. Delighted to be a small cog in the brookings Service Year Alliance machine that has produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Bell sawhill for conceiving of this day and working tirelessly over a period of at least six months to bring it about. A...

A conference we will discuss a little more that we discussed in other panels and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad team with it for this panel which it think weve detected has been true for a lot of immigration stuff since at least this president took over is its a very important issues have been sort of getting shuttled among three branches of the government. In one way were saying you could say each branch of the government is sort of putting they cant any of the persons lapin hoping they can will stop there somewhere. Many of these cans have stopped. This is our job to see whe...