Chris Coons

We need to continue to reinforce that America sends its best and brightest to represent us around the world.

You are going to have quite a challenge dealing with Turkey and trying to strike a balance between their dramatic backsliding on human rights and transparency and democracy.

I join Senator Kaufman in urging support for Mark Gitenstein, who I know will be a very capable and experienced Ambassador.

The Nicaraguan electoral process, including its eventual results, has lost all credibility.

I know he will be even more successful with his amazing wife, Cheryl, by his side, and I look forward to supporting Senator Flake's nomination and encourage my colleagues to do so as well.

Senator Flake has long championed American leadership around the world by promoting the rule of law, protecting human rights, and through strong international agreements.

Canada is not just a critical trade partner, not just a critical values partner, but is a real security partner.

I am committed to working with you on ensuring Israel's security and the continued strengthening of that long, deep, and important partnership.

If we really believe in the importance of NATO, if we really believe in the importance of NORAD, we have to invest appropriately.

I look forward to partnering with you and figuring out how we can more fully implement them.

The COVID-19 pandemic right now is a wake-up call, and this is an area I have been very concerned about for many, many years.

Yet at the same time, the international instrument that at least my Bureau is responsible for, the Biological Weapons Convention, is the least institutionalized, least developed, and in many ways least significant of the many…

China has expanded its influence not just in the Indo-Pacific but in Europe, investing in infrastructure, heightening its emphasis on the Arctic, targeting countries in Eastern, Central, and Western Europe with disinformation campaigns.

It is important for us to be able to be at the table with the full weight of United States from a diplomatic perspective backing us

I think that is urgent work and I look forward to working with the chairman to ensure that the resources for that are available.

If you would just share with me, briefly, what lessons from your service as ambassador to Croatia would you bring to PRM...

Thank you for setting the record straight about both the bipartisan support for the Abraham Accords here and the ways in which the State Department continues to advocate for their full implementation.

I am pleased to strongly support his nomination, and I urge the committee to do so as well.

I am going to do my level best, working with the Chair and Ranking Member, to make sure that the resources are there so that we have real-time insights into how they are or are not making positive improvements on delivery standards.

There are significant structural reforms planned. Changes that you describe as complex and difficult, you said there is a risk implementation could result in regional or widespread service issues, more service issues, and that historically…

I hope we will work together to deliver those resources to the IG.

I am gravely concerned about the service delivery standards of the U.S. Postal Service and the intended significant realignment of the Postal Service that you were just describing.

Would it be your advice that there has to be service delivery impact analysis done before these major restructurings are undertaken?

This alignment has benefited our State, and provided opportunities for banks like mine to finance projects.

I want to thank you for what I think is an appropriately robust request for funding for the GEF and the Green Climate Fund, a modest but necessary request for $15 million to continue to implement the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef…