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I do hold the State Department responsible for the failure to provide the information.

They deserve our best.

In short, it seems like the Department currently cannot get out of its own way and focus on what really matters, which is advancing U.S. national security and keeping Americans safe.

I am not going to support anybody that was complicit in the horrific treatment of U.S. diplomats in China during COVID-19.

We deserve to know whether Mr. Malley's crimes impacted U.S. Iran policy, influenced nuclear discussions, or swayed the President's decisions.

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

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.

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

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

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

You are being too tough on ITAR. ITAR is really, really important when you are trying to withhold secrets from Russia, and China, and others.

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.

The Biden administration has been very open in its communications with us, and I think respects greatly the legislative branch of government.

I want to ask you about that.

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

Do we support in their ambition to eliminate Hamas?