Our Honorees
We’re thrilled to recognize these Members of Congress who have dedicated their career to promoting civic service and bipartisanship, as well as our Corporate Honoree for their valued partnership.
Senator John Boozman
Senator Boozman is Arkansas’s senior U.S. Senator, a fifth-generation Arkansan, and the dean of the state’s Congressional delegation. Prior to serving in the Senate, he represented the people of the Third District of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Decades of experience as a successful healthcare provider and a small business owner guide Senator Boozman’s approach to governing. He is committed to advocating for economic policies that help Arkansas’s small businesses and has been a consistent champion for his state’s farmers, ranchers, and loggers.
As the son of an Air Force Master Sergeant, Senator Boozman learned at an early age about the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, as well as the unique challenges military families face. He brings these values with him to Washington as a member of the Committee on Veterans’ Affair, where he is committed to enhancing the quality of life for veterans and their families. He also serves as Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, enabling him to play a key role in influencing policy that relates to the agriculture economy, nutrition programs and quality of life in rural America. Senator Boozman will also continue to serve on the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and the Committee on Rules and Administration in the 119th Congress.
Along with these committees, Senator Boozman serves on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, commonly referred to as the Helsinki Commission. He is the Republican Senate Co-Chair of FMC’s Congressional Study Group on Europe (CSGE), a bipartisan organization dedicated to frank and candid dialogue between American lawmakers and their peers in European capitals and Brussels, and currently chairs the Senate Delegation to the British-American Interparliamentary Group.
In addition, Senator Boozman also serves as one of six Congressional Regents on the Smithsonian Institute's Board of Regents, as well as one of four congressional members of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission that facilitates wetland conservation efforts and projects to sustain migratory bird populations.
He is married to the former Cathy Marley and they currently reside in Rogers. The couple has three daughters and four grandchildren.
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock was raised in public housing in Savannah, Georgia and is the first in his family to graduate from college. Senator Warnock earned his undergraduate degree from Atlanta’s historic Morehouse College and received two master’s degrees and a Doctor of Philosophy in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary. He has been awarded ten honorary doctorates from institutions across the country, including his alma mater, Morehouse, in recognition of his leadership and public service.
Since 2005, Senator Warnock has served as Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elected Georgia’s first Black Senator in 2021, Senator Warnock has championed legislation to cap the cost of insulin for seniors, invest in students and the workforce, and address the maternal mortality crisis. He has secured more than $265 million for Georgia HBCUs, more than $17 billion in total for HBCU campuses across the country and has successfully fought to secure $138 billion in student debt relief for more than 4 million Americans.
Senator Warnock continues to use his moral voice in the U.S. Senate to deliver for Georgians — from ending gun violence and closing Georgia’s health care gap, to supporting farmers and rural communities, expanding tax cuts for working families, and protecting the sacred right to vote
Congressman Bill Huizenga
Congressman Bill Huizenga represents Michigan's 4th Congressional District, which stretches along the shores of Lake Michigan to Battle Creek. Prior to serving Michigan's 4th Congressional District, Congressman Huizenga represented Michigan's 2nd Congressional District from January 2011 until January 2023.
Huizenga's interest in public service began when he was a young boy. When the family was gathered around the dinner table, his father would encourage thoughtful discussions surrounding business and politics. Huizenga went on to attend Holland Christian High School and later received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Calvin College. After college, Bill began his career as a realtor and entrepreneur.
As Vice Chairman of the prestigious House Committee on Financial Services, Congressman Huizenga has been a leading voice in making the United States the place for capital to invest, right sizing our regulatory structure, and making it easier for Americans to achieve a more financially secure future. As Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South & Central Asia, Congressman Huizenga led the bipartisan overhaul of the State Department’s public diplomacy authorities for the first time in two decades.
As the founding Republican Co-Chair of the Congressional Burma Caucus, Huizenga recently united the House of Representatives behind the Brave Burma Act to hold the Burmese Junta accountable for their horrific crimes against civilians. Huizenga has also led bipartisan efforts to strengthen the AUKUS partnership and sanction Iran for its financial support of terrorism in the Middle East and across the globe.
Congressman Huizenga is an original member and Republican Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum (BFF), a group founded during the 118th Congress that is dedicated to sounding the alarm about our nation’s unsustainable debt trajectory and working together to get control of our fiscal future. Since 2017, Congressman Huizenga has served as a Republican Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, which fosters cooperation and support for policies and programs that enhance the environmental health and economic potential of the Great Lakes.
Huizenga also serves as the Republican lead of the US-Canada Interparliamentary Group, the Northern Border Caucus, the Friends of Switzerland Caucus, and the Congressional Study Group on Europe.
Congressman Huizenga is a lifelong resident of Ottawa County, where he currently resides with his family..
Congressman Gregory Meeks
Now in his thirteenth term, Congressman Meeks has served New York’s fifth district for over two decades.
Congressman Meeks’ value for social justice and giving back to his community in East Harlem was instilled in him by his parents. These values, alongside his childhood dream of becoming a lawyer, propelled him first into Adelphi University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history; and then to Howard University Law School. In the years to follow, Congressman Meeks worked as a Queens County Assistant District Attorney, a prosecutor for a special anti-narcotics taskforce, and chief administrative judge for New York State's worker compensation system. In 1992, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he served until 1998, when he won a special election to represent the Fifth Congressional District of New York.
Congressman Meeks is the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and in the 117th Congress was the first Black Member of Congress to serve as Chairman of the Committee. He is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, where he served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions.
Rep. Meeks previously served as a Dodd-Frank conferee, where he helped co-author provisions in Wall Street reform law such as stress testing requirements and creating the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at the financial regulatory agencies. He is part of the forward-thinking, pro-growth Democratic members who comprise the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), the largest ideological caucus in Congress.
Congressman Meeks is focused on revitalizing the economy, creating jobs, and enhancing the resiliency of the Fifth District's transportation, housing and environmental infrastructure, which were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy. He has helped secure funding for new affordable residential units in Jamaica and the revitalization of Downtown Far Rockaway and fought to improve public transit accessibility for his constituents, especially to and from JFK Airport.
Congressman Meeks is a member of the Allen AME Church in St. Albans, New York and a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. As a huge sports fan, Meeks enjoys watching the New York Knicks, the New York Giants, and the New York Mets. He is married to Simone-Marie Meeks. He has three daughters – Ebony, Aja, and Nia-Aiyana, four granddaughters, and one grandson.
Deutsche Telekom
With over 273 million mobile customers, more than 24 million fixed-network lines, and more than 22 million broadband customers, we are one of the leading integrated telecommunications companies worldwide. We provide fixed-network/broadband, mobile, internet, and internet-based TV products and services for consumers, and information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for business and corporate customers. We have an international focus and are represented in more than 50 countries. With some 200 thousand employees worldwide (as of December 31, 2025), we generated revenue of EUR 119.1 billion in the 2025 financial year. 78.0 percent of the Group’s net revenue is generated outside of Germany.
Our mobile communications business offers mobile voice and data services to consumers and business customers. In addition, we sell mobile devices and other hardware. We also sell mobile services to resellers and to companies that buy network services and market them to third parties (mobile virtual network operators). Our fixed-network business includes all voice and data communications activities based on fixed-network and broadband technology. This includes the sale of terminal equipment and other hardware, as well as the sale of services to resellers. Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, we operate ICT systems for multinational corporations and public-sector institutions.
Our ambition is to become the Leading Digital Telco. In pursuit of this, we are driving the responsible digital transformation of our Company and leveraging the potential offered by our data and by AI. This applies both to internal processes, so as to further enhance quality and efficiency, and to specific offerings to our customers. As a global Group with a large footprint in Europe and the United States, we are ideally positioned for this. The operation and sale of convergent networks remains our core business.
Sustainability forms an integral component of the Group’s strategy, and as such is systematically and organizationally embedded in our business model and our company culture.