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This means the Department cannot deliver on its ambitious agenda to open new embassies in places where we are directly contending with China.

No one who allowed a foreign adversary to treat U.S. diplomats this way should be a U.S. ambassador.

We deserve to know whether Mr. Malley's crimes impacted U.S. Iran policy.

I am tired of the Department slow walking key reforms that would improve its efficiency and effectiveness.

I am glad you are paying attention to it. It is the right thing to do.

Our experts on the ground should make these decisions, not folks sitting 5,000 miles away in Washington.

We are not going to outcompete China with our personnel sitting behind Embassy walls. They need to get out.

Can you confirm that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security suspended Mr. Malley's clearance because he improperly transferred classified U.S. Government information?

They admitted they have.

I sent a letter stating that I would not support moving any nominees complicit in the horrific treatment of U.S. diplomats in China during COVID-19.

It appears to many of us that the Department under President Biden is more concerned with pursuing its own arbitrary DEI goals than results focused efforts to modernize its operations and work force.

AUKUS is an outstanding enterprise. It is the NATO of the 21st century right now for the Indo-Pacific.

Nobody has said anything to me. I turned on TV set. And there it is that somebody has made a decision that countermands the agreement that we made.

I have never agreed with every decision made by any Administration since I have been in the U.S. Senate on every issue.

It is ironclad as long as they do what we tell them to do.

They are partners, they are friends. If we are going to work together with them, they need to have access and flex.

I think respects greatly the legislative branch of government.

Do we support in their ambition to eliminate Hamas?

I think we are concerned.

Ma'am, you are living in la-la land. They are not coming back to the table.

Soft power only works when it is backed up by hard power.

Our commitment to Israel was ironclad.

We are all full of hope. But unfortunately, the history that we have had with these two countries is very, very discouraging.

I am really disappointed in what I have heard today.