02/04/2009
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"I want to thank you and Senator Corker, not only for the courtesy of introducing our great constituent, but for the great job you have been doing on this committee."
"I am proud to present her as President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next Ambassador to Japan."
"It is a career that leaves me no doubt she is well qualified to take on this great task that awaits her if she is confirmed as the next United States Ambassador to Japan."
"I am also sure that her father, mother, her uncles, and extended family are looking down with pride upon this hearing."