01/14/2009
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"The Department of State remains committed to Afghan partners who assisted the United States over the past two decades in Afghanistan."
"If confirmed, I will work to strengthen our economic partnership, which supports prosperity in both Costa Rica and the United States."
"Our futures are inextricably bound together as two nations, as people that have a very common heritage."
"This hearing on nominations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order."