They want to participate in that.

Transitional government leaders should act with urgency to create conditions for a genuine and peaceful electoral process.

These are challenging times for the United States and the world, but our policies across the board are not helping us.

By rejecting low carbon energy options like natural gas and pushing a green only approach the Administration is doing more to enable China than out compete it.

You have to have that rigorous debate between the security professionals, between the people who are building, and we want to do this right.

They deserve our best.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Can you give me just a--I do not want a blah, blah, blah, answer.

I respectfully disagree. They have got it, they are in front of this committee.

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

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

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