It's my hope that this hearing will allow us to identify some of the challenges faced by previous under secretaries.
Did we make a mistake by changing the focus and accessibility of American Centers and what is the future there?
Thank you, Senator Kaufman, for convening this hearing to evaluate the future of U.S. public diplomacy.
Public diplomacy represents an indispensable component of any viable foreign policy.
The decision was made around 1998, 1999, to move those within the Embassy and, as you might expect, the attendance at these centers dropped ...
I understand what Senator Kaufman and you are saying about expanding the budget. I also worry about the national debt.
What strategy would we have to find some more?
Our ranking member on the full committee, Senator Lugar, has championed reversing this retrenchment of the American Centers.
We need to be trading on an economically beneficial basis with partners like China, but stimulus dollars going to China and Malaysia and els...
It is heartening to see that this proposed budget takes into account the public's input.
Most of the so-called good, high quality, new manufacturing jobs are going to Asia where labor costs are a fraction of the U.S. salaries.