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

I am glad you are paying attention to it. It is the right thing to do.

They deserve our best.

They deserve our best.

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

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

Our experts on the ground should make these decisions, not folks sitting 5,000 miles away in Washington.

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

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.

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

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

It appears to many of us that the Department under President Biden is more concerned with pursuing its own arbitrary DEI goals than results focused efforts to modernize its operations and work force.

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.

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

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.

Hope is not a strategy.