When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, we did not have an ambassador in Egypt.

It seems like a big issue to me.

I want to thank you for your work on Remote Access Medical.

We need our diplomats out and development experts out in the field showing up, actively engaged, representing the United States.

Other nations do that and they have much better health outcome than we do.

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...

It seems like a big issue to me.

if somebody on the Senate is holding you up, and it is secret, you do not even have the ability to...

Thanks, Chairman Sanders, thanks to the panel.

the Senate holds on ambassadorial nominees are harming our national interest.

Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee?

When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, we did not have an ambassador in Egypt.

When the Houthis started to fire at U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea, we did not have an ambassador in Djibouti.

Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee?

We had no ambassador in country. That coup has led to a government that now wants to kick the U.S. out.

I'm going to be in Appalachian, Virginia tomorrow visiting the Allegheny Highlands Dental Center.