06/11/2003
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"Every judicial nominee should receive an up-or-down vote in the full Senate, no matter who is President or which party controls the Senate."
"I intend to nominate Richard Eugene Hoagland to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Tajikistan."
"We need an energy policy."
"Richard Eugene Hoagland, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United State..."