Jeff Flake actually said...

For Somalia and the surrounding region, U.S. interests abroad, the stakes are simply too high to let the country backslide.

Is it concerning to you? ... that we have not, one year into this administration or beyond a year, named an Assistant Secretary for Africa?

Senator Booker and I are holding this hearing to demonstrate the interest of the United States in helping Somalia to turn that page.

I look forward to hearing testimony on these bills and will turn to Senator Cortez Masto.