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We would like to thank mrs. Obama, mrs. Bush and all the wonderful first ladies who are here. We are delighted to have you. In the United States, we have a very powerful notion that we all hear about from the time were children that education is the key to a Better Future for us and for each successive generation. I heard about it in my family where i was the first person to graduate from college. Mrs. Obama spoke about it today. I think it was a similar experience for her. Here in the United States, we refer to it as the American Dream. But in my travels around the world as the ambassador for global womens issues, i have discovered it isnt really just an American Dream at all. Its a universal dream. Millions of parents want their children, girls and boys, to learn more, to do better, to achieve greater things than they did. I saw it at st. Josephs girl school in sierra leone. We all saw it with the girls trying to hard and against such incredible odds to again an education in northern
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Email issue with epka. I think for passage we ought to deal specifically with emails so we can get something and amend it as we progress through technology, keeping its mind, the spirit of the Fourth Amendment as well. Thank you very much for your attention. I appreciate it. Thank you. Ill invite our Panel Members to join me here on stage, as formidable panel as one could ask for an event like this. Joining me, we have if youre here, greg new james from i know quite well. A Senior Council of the senate for democracy and technology and the hed of the project on freedom, security and technology and cochair of the american Bar Committee on American Civil Liberties. And an attorney in private practice and director of Legal Services for the American Discrimination Committee as well as Legislative Council at the American Civil Liberties union. A veteran of the fight for judicial privacy and is also a driving force behind the digital due process coalition. We have several members represented
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