You are going to be serving Europe at a very critical time, when I think the future of the EU, of NATO, and of the transatlantic alliance is really at stake.

If confirmed, I will strongly advocate for continued U.S.-EU unity in maintaining pressure on Russia through sanctions.

But this administration has reduced the ability of refugees to come to the country, particularly Syrian refugees who are fleeing violence and a horrible situation in their own country.

I think that we should continue to support that in every way we can, especially in those places where we are seeing famine as the result of manmade conditions.

I think we do have some shared objectives in Syria. We face a common enemy in ISIS.

I thanked him for his leadership.

I think is absolutely critical, and as we look at how do we raise the economic prosperity of countries around the world, we know that empowering women is a very important piece of that.

I look forward to seeing your ongoing efforts to continue to work to empower women because I think that is a critical piece of what we need to do and what we need to do if we are going to provide economic opportunities around the world.

I hope that it is the will of this body to do some repair on the budget, so that the message that we send is not one that we are reducing America's traditional commitment to those issues.

There have been some suggestions and concerns raised about the administration using impoundment to actually not spend monies that have been appropriated.

One of the jobs that we have is to try to figure out how to make them more effective and make sure they have the resources that they need.

I will continue to advocate that that is money well spent that is a benefit to us here in America if we make sure that women and girls who are vulnerable around the world get the health care that they need.

I was very distressed when I saw the budget proposal from this administration that would phase out OPIC.

No country can rise if it is discriminating against any marginalized community. No country can be a vibrant democracy if it is not listening to all of its voices.

I appreciate your commitment to that.

I hope that you will continue that role as the head of OPIC and with Mr. Bohigian that the two of you will preside over an expansion of OPIC in a way that helps small businesses in this country create jobs because that is our goal.

We want to be part of that discussion.

Even though we had not had any incidents from terrorist from any of those seven countries that we could point to?