This past weekend, the Africa Business Club had the immense privilege of hosting 1,000 participants at our annual Conference. Co-organizing the Conference in the capacity of CFO and Conference Lead was a huge labor of love, and I cannot overstate how much the collective engagement of our leadership team, sponsors, keynotes, panelists, volunteers, alumni, Harvard staff, venue staff, and importantly, conference guests contributed to the success of the Conference.
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is that the idea? reporter: just equal percentages of everything. martha: unbelievable. reporter: some congressman not as essential on as these other parts but that is not the way it works. martha: are lawmakers defending all of this? reporter: a democratic congressman from new jersey, rush holt, who is also a physicist, he testified yesterday scientists like him need conferences. first-hand how important scientific conferences and meetings are. the informal conferences and formal presentations that go into a conference lead to real collaboration. these are not fancy junkets. reporter: congressman holt thinks the federal government should spend more money on conferences. martha: maybe they do them in the conference room down the hall in with a the brown-bag bag as darrell issa report. thanks, peter. unbelievable. we didn t get to go to a conference last year. what are we doing wrong?