They deserve a system that recognizes their talent, that encourages their development and promotion, and is compatible with family life.

see, these are individuals on the front line, and they take exception to what is going on with this administration and this Executive order that is forcing them to get a shot that maybe their doctor is saying: Hey, this is not one for you…

I hope to work with Senator Cardin to make significant progress on personnel-related matters over the near future.

A rigorous doctrinal approach to the art of diplomacy in the State Department.

I look forward to seeing a concrete plan on the issue from the State Department.

I think we can do better.

The length of training, I think, likely reflects the priority that the organization places on the tenets of and the art of diplomacy or the activity in their department.

We must also incentivize and reward our diplomats to seek further education and professional development opportunities.

I am beginning to feel a little bit like a broken record when I am here on the floor and talking about all the ways that Tennesseans feel like this administration has backed them into a corner. It doesn't matter if I am going to fill up…

Technology and the realization that we have come to over the past year and a half, 2 years, may present a real opportunity here.

Our Foreign Service officers and the personnel at State Department are dedicated individuals serving our country with great distinction.

I think striking a balance there will be critically important.

This hearing has been extremely helpful to us in helping us understand what we need to do.

I just--I will encourage--and we will spend some time after this--to look at that balance again.

I look forward to seeing a concrete plan for the rebuilding effort Mr. Blinken spoke about.

There is a tremendous amount of capacity that is being underutilized in the Department today.

We will continue to reach out to you for help as we try to struggle with what we can do both legislatively as well as through oversight and appropriations.

earlier today, President Biden announced his new, revised, supposedly curtailed, social spending plan for America. It seems that the depressing economic numbers, the soaring costs of goods, mounting data that government spending is to…