James E. Risch

Transitional government leaders should act with urgency to create conditions for a genuine and peaceful electoral process.

We cannot use U.S. taxpayer dollars to support an open ended, poorly conceived mission in a country plagued by extreme gang violence and political instability without some kind of assurances that things are going to be different this time.

This proposed budget does contain a poison pill... in the form of a, quote, 'Green Climate Fund' which proposes to transfer U.S. taxpayer money to China through the United Nations.

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.

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.

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

We are not going to outcompete China with our personnel sitting behind Embassy walls. They need to get out.

We are not going to outcompete China with our personnel sitting behind Embassy walls. They need to get out.

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

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.

They deserve our best.

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.

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

They deserve our best.

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

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

Hope is not a strategy.

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

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

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

Hope is not a strategy.

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