"I'm going to be in Appalachian, Virginia tomorrow visiting the Allegheny Highlands Dental Center."
"Thanks, Chairman Sanders, thanks to the panel."
"I want to thank you for your work on Remote Access Medical."
"Other nations do that and they have much better health outcome than we do."
"I appreciate your service, your testimony, and thanks Mr. Chairman."
"We had no ambassador in country."
"the Senate holds on ambassadorial nominees are harming our national interest."
"Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee? The country believes, wow, we must not be that important in the United States."
"Your confirmation gives those candidates a different level of standing. They show up with a letter from the President that they present to the head of state, gives them a different level of understand..."
"And that is not just for the political appointees. The thing that is a little bit unusual about this is you see the holds of these career appointees who served under Presidents of both parties, who ha..."
"if somebody on the Senate is holding you up, and it is secret, you do not even have the ability to..."
"if we mattered to you, you would have someone here, right?"