When the security situation in Haiti spiraled downward, we had no ambassador in place.
Your confirmation gives those candidates a different level of standing.
When the Houthis started to fire at U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea, we did not have an ambassador in Djibouti.
if somebody on the Senate is holding you up, and it is secret, you do not even have the ability to...
the Senate holds on ambassadorial nominees are harming our national interest.
When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, we did not have an ambassador in Egypt.
Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee?
It seems like a big issue to me.
Other nations do that and they have much better health outcome than we do.
Holding up a nominee, particularly a career nominee for reasons unrelated to that individual's qualifications is somethi...
I want to thank you for your work on Remote Access Medical.
And that is not just for the political appointees.
