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Thank you, Madam Chairman.

It is a dereliction of duty, in my view, that we are not moving these men and women through the process.

It makes no sense and undermines our interests every day that we do not have ambassadors on post at places around the world.

You cannot beat something with nothing.

We need all our players on the playing field.

Volvo is actually losing orders right now from people that want to, you know, purchase these electric medium and heavy duty trucks, but cannot because of this issue of charging stations.

When you have a huge, what economists call externality, which is climate change, I know some of my colleagues do not really believe in that as a threat.

I appreciate that. As you say, you want to work at both ends of the equation, the expense as well as the profit end.

I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said, but it still begs the question that without much complaint Azerbaijan is now occupying part of Armenia--strategic part of Armenia--and there has been no real protest about their…

I support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.

Which Russia is trying to make sure does not happen.

You cannot beat something with nothing.

It is a dereliction of duty, in my view, that we are not moving these men and women through the process.

It makes no sense and undermines our interests every day that we do not have ambassadors on post at places around the world.

We need all our players on the playing field.

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.

We think the United States has to work with our partners in South America to make it clear that that was not an election where Maduro won.

The level of divisiveness and backwards-looking ideology that he continues to introduce into the public discourse is incredibly troubling. And I think it also is important to show that distinct difference between these two.