First, I want to thank our ranking member Hagerty, for his cooperation and help in putting together this hearing.
I think it is very much needed.
I think it really is time for us to take a look at the Foreign Service Act working with the stakeholders to see whether ...
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...
We obviously want our workforce to reflect diversity of our Nation but also the diversity of the global community.
Welcome to the first hearing of the subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations on the State Department and USAID manag...
training does offer an opportunity for us to make some maybe immediate progress in looking at it this year.
It is very interesting that the diplomacy is there to try to prevent conflict as one of its major responsibilities.
we need... a broader pool that we could utilize to meet our diplomatic missions when we have vacancies for whatever reas...
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...
I want to add one additional point to this diversity of assignments that we have in the State Department.
We should be bold in re-imagining the State Department, and this should be guided by some very basic foundational questi...
Are we creating too many additional lines of responsibility rather than trying to coordinate things better?
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...
Congress should form a bipartisan commission to examine every aspect of American diplomacy.
One of the proposals that we have put forward, actually on a bipartisan basis, in legislation has been affordable housin...
I want to second the comments made by my colleague, Senator Ossoff, about the importance of the infrastructure moderniza...
