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Mr. Band. Yes. Mr. Harnice. Do you have any other questions before we begin? Mr. Band. No. Mr. Harnice. I understand that you have an opening statement. You may read that now. Mr. Band. Yes, thank you. Good morning, Chairman Comer, committee staff. My name is Doug Band. I worked for President Clinton for the entire first half of my adult life, first as his aide and traveling assistant during his presidency, helping him stay on schedule and manage daily administrative tasks, and then continuing in that role as he transitioned to post-Presidential life. During his post-Presidency period, I supported the President across various endeavors, and I was responsible for the conception of what became the Clinton Global Initiative, an effort to bring people together from around the world to make concrete commitments to action on important global issues. Since its founding in 2005, the Clinton Global Initiative has launched more than 4300 projects and has reached over 500 million people worldwide. It was in the course of my work for President Clinton that I came into limited contact with Jeffrey Epstein. My interactions with Epstein were infrequent and incidental to my duties. I did not know him well at all, and I rarely interacted with him. I also met Ghislaine Maxwell in the course of my duties with President Clinton, and over time we developed a friendship. However, that friendship ended well over a decade ago. As I sit here today, I recall that in roughly 2011, I started hearing rumors and reading reports about her potential involvement in troubling activities. Given these