We're never going to get the debt under control unless you not only look at the spending side but the revenue side.

What is the Corps doing to think long-term about the investments that we need to make to address existing waterways, and how we respond to climate change?

Other nations do that and they have much better health outcome than we do.

I'm going to be in Appalachian, Virginia tomorrow visiting the Allegheny Highlands Dental Center.

I want to thank you for your work on Remote Access Medical.

if somebody on the Senate is holding you up, and it is secret, you do not even have the ability to...

Thanks, Chairman Sanders, thanks to the panel.

I appreciate your service, your testimony, and thanks Mr. Chairman.

And that is not just for the political appointees. The thing that is a little bit unusual about this is you see the holds of these career appointees who served under Presidents of both parties, who had to pass one of the toughest exams in…

if we mattered to you, you would have someone here, right?

We had no ambassador in country.

Holding up a nominee, particularly a career nominee for reasons unrelated to that individual's qualifications is something that needs to end.

Your confirmation gives those candidates a different level of standing. They show up with a letter from the President that they present to the head of state, gives them a different level of understanding.

We need our diplomats out and development experts out in the field showing up, actively engaged, representing the United States.

It seems like a big issue to me.

Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee? The country believes, wow, we must not be that important in the United States.

the Senate holds on ambassadorial nominees are harming our national interest.

Your work on this has been critical. You have been out to our State twice.