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Public Hearings Universal Service COMMISSIONERS SHOULD SERVICE BE MANDATORY?

The Honorable Dr. Joseph Heck, Chairman The Honorable Mark Gearan, Vice Chair for National and Public Service The Honorable Debra Wada, Vice Chair for Military Service PROGRAM 1:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Mr. Edward Allard III, Commissioner Mr. Steve Barney, Commissioner The Honorable Dr. Janine Davidson, Commissioner OPENING STATEMENT AND REMARKS The Honorable Avril Haines, Commissioner Dr. Joe Heck, Chairman; Sylvia M. Burwell, President, American University Ms. Jeanette James, Commissioner PANELISTS TESTIFY Mr. Alan Khazei, Commissioner Mr. Thomas Kilgannon, Commissioner PANELIST Q&A Ms. Shawn Skelly, Commissioner (two rounds of questions directly from Commissioners)

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DOUG BANDOW, SENIOR FELLOW, CATO INSTITUTE DR. WILLIAM GALSTON, EZRA K. ZILKHA CHAIR f Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and a o l AND SENIOR FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION d

columnist for the American Conservative online. He served as a h William A. Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow in the e r Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. During that time e Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. Prior to January he worked with the Military Manpower Task Force, responsible 2006, he was the Saul Stern Professor and Acting Dean at the School of for assessing the performance of the All-Volunteer Force and Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for recommending policies to improve manpower recruitment and Philosophy and Public Policy, and founding director of the Center for retention. Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).

Previously a columnist for Forbes online, nationally syndicated Galston was Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy columnist with Copley News Service, and editor of the monthly from 1993 to 1995. Galston is a winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert H. political magazine Inquiry, he has been widely published in Humphrey Award and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-chair such periodicals as Time, Newsweek, and Fortune, as well as leading newspapers including the of The New Center with Bill Kristol. His most recent book is Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has written several books, Liberal Democracy (Yale, 2018). including Human Resources and Defense Manpower (National Defense University), Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon), The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in LUCY STEIGERWALD, AUTHOR Washington (Transaction), and Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway). Lucy Steigerwald is a journalist and editor in , . He received his B.S. in Economics from Florida State University in 1976 and his J.D. from Stanford Her work has appeared in The American Conservative, The Daily University in 1979. Beast, Reason, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She focuses on foreign policy, individual freedom, and criminal justice. Her twitter is @lucystag.

TED HOLLANDER, AUTHOR Mr. Hollander received a Bachelors degree in Economics from in 1957, and, in 1960, after a tour of duty with SYLVIA M. BURWELL, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY the U. S. Marine Corps, he joined The Presray Corporation in Sylvia M. Burwell is American University's 15th president and the first Pawling, NY , then a manufacturer of engineered rubber woman to serve as president. Burwell joined AU on June 1, 2017, products for the aerospace, defense, nuclear power and succeeding Neil Kerwin. semiconductor industries, now specializing in barriers for flood protection and biocontainment. In 1989 he took over as Burwell has held two cabinet positions in the President of The Presray Corporation, and later also as Board government. She served as the 22nd secretary of the US Department Chairman, a position that he holds to this day. of Health and Human Services from 2014 to 2017.

Mr. Hollander resides with his wife Barbara in Sherman, Connecticut where he has served in the past as Chairman of the School Board, Planning and Zoning Commission, The Naromi land Her additional government experience includes roles as deputy director of the Office of Trust, the Sherman Library and the New Milford Hospital. He currently heads up Friends in Management and Budget, deputy chief of staff to the president, chief of staff to the secretary of Service Here of Sherman providing transportation and medical equipment to the aged and the Treasury, and special assistant to the director of the National Economic Council. infirmed in the community. Burwell has held leadership positions at two of the largest foundations in the world. She served 11 In 2015 Mr. Hollander published his book Step Forward America! making a case for a years at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, including roles as the chief operating officer and mandatory National Service Program, following up with a second edition in 2017. president of the Global Development Program. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Government from and a BA in Philosophy, Policy and Economics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.