As a NATO ally, we expect Turkey to advance democracy and human rights and yet it is moving in the opposite direction.
The message should be clear. Any effort to weaken NATO from within or outside will be met by a robust response by the Un...
I think we should be very, very judicious. I do not want to take a blanket rule to it, but I think the special represent...
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good morning, everyone.
First, I want to thank our ranking member Hagerty, for his cooperation and help in putting together this hearing.
Congress should form a bipartisan commission to examine every aspect of American diplomacy.
I think we have missed opportunities where there were opportunities for us to make major advancements in building democr...
I think that a system that puts a priority on personnel category, on tenure rather than merit, is something that serious...
We should be bold in re-imagining the State Department, and this should be guided by some very basic foundational questi...
I agree that when the National Security Council is too big, then they think they have the capacity to actually drive thi...
I want to add one additional point to this diversity of assignments that we have in the State Department.
we need... a broader pool that we could utilize to meet our diplomatic missions when we have vacancies for whatever reas...
Are we creating too many additional lines of responsibility rather than trying to coordinate things better?
Forty-one years have passed since the last major restructuring of the State Department, and we should seek to update and...
It is very interesting that the diplomacy is there to try to prevent conflict as one of its major responsibilities.
I think it really is time for us to take a look at the Foreign Service Act working with the stakeholders to see whether ...
I think it is very much needed.
we have a responsibility in Congress to figure out a way forward to deal with how we can get our input into having the m...
