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

They want to participate in that.

In Africa, we have had coups in seven countries in the last 3 years.

By rejecting low carbon energy options like natural gas and pushing a green only approach the Administration is doing more to enable China than out compete it.

The Administration's policy is fatally flawed. Outreach and accommodation have failed, and the lack of any serious strategy has come home to roost.

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

We cannot help but conclude there is an orchestrated effort to obscure the facts from Congress.

I respectfully disagree.

No one who allowed a foreign adversary to treat U.S. diplomats this way should be a U.S. ambassador.

We deserve to know whether Mr. Malley's crimes impacted U.S. Iran policy.

I sent a letter stating that I would not support moving any nominees complicit in the horrific treatment of U.S. diplomats in China during COVID-19.

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

They admitted they have.

Hope is not a strategy.

Can you confirm that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security suspended Mr. Malley's clearance because he improperly transferred classified U.S. Government information?

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

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.

I am tired of the Department slow walking key reforms that would improve its efficiency and effectiveness.

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

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

It is going to be never. You guys are dreaming over there if this is what you are waiting for.

I have never agreed with every decision made by any Administration since I have been in the U.S. Senate on every issue.

AUKUS is an outstanding enterprise. It is the NATO of the 21st century right now for the Indo-Pacific.

For deterrence to be credible, it must be backed up by capability and political will to follow through on the threat.

Our commitment to Israel was ironclad.