[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will do a little bit of the front end and hopefully will take care of the business quickly and i know people have other meanings and it will move to the hearing itself. We think our witnesses for allowing us to do this and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today ander we will movea number of nominations and Foreign Service officer led and will also take up as 1928, multilateral act of 2017. I want to think senator coons for his leadership and hard work on this bill. L. I want to also recognize isaacson, rubio, young, cain and merkley for their contributions to thisct bipartisan important legislation for the committee. This bill will establish a process for conducting injected reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding, the authorities after review. Eleven years. Through this process we will be able to evaluate their performance
Quest the business many will come to order, we will do a little business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly, i know people have other meetings and then will move to the hearing itself. We think our witness for allowing us to do this and we are glad you are here. Items on theber of agenda today, we will move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer list. Theill also take up multilateral act of 2017. I want to think sen. Coons his leadership and hard work on this bill, i want to recognize senators isaacson, rubio, young, kane and merkley whether contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. Establish all process for conducting objective reviews on how multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. Authorities through this process, we will be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will look at performance, management, accountability and transparency. Transparency alig
This period of the subcommittee on civilian, security, democracy, human rights and global womens issue sz going to come to order. And the u. S. Tax on cuba oversight. We have one Government Panel testifying with it following three witnesses here. The acting assistant secretary of state for the bureau of western hemisphere affairs. International programs that department of state and dr. Charles, the medical director at the bureau of medical services for the department of state. Thank you all again for being here on this important topic. There are two goals. The first is to establish the facts. And of what has occurred and the second is to conduct oversight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today by our panel. In late 2016 staff at the United States embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among it descriptions they complained of, high pitched beam of sound, incapacitating sound, akin to
This period of the subcommittee on civilian, security, democracy, human rights and global womens issue sz going to come to order. And the u. S. Tax on cuba oversight. We have one Government Panel testifying with it following three witnesses here. The acting assistant secretary of state for the bureau of western hemisphere affairs. International programs that department of state and dr. Charles, the medical director at the bureau of medical services for the department of state. Thank you all again for being here on this important topic. There are two goals. The first is to establish the facts. And of what has occurred and the second is to conduct oversight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today by our panel. In late 2016 staff at the United States embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among it descriptions they complained of, high pitched beam of sound, incapacitating sound, akin to
This period of the subcommittee on civilian, security, democracy, human rights and global womens issue sz going to come to order. And the u. S. Tax on cuba oversight. We have one Government Panel testifying with it following three witnesses here. The acting assistant secretary of state for the bureau of western hemisphere affairs. International programs that department of state and dr. Charles, the medical director at the bureau of medical services for the department of state. Thank you all again for being here on this important topic. There are two goals. The first is to establish the facts. And of what has occurred and the second is to conduct oversight over the conduct and the activities of the United States state department. Here are the facts as will be testified to today by our panel. In late 2016 staff at the United States embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among it descriptions they complained of, high pitched beam of sound, incapacitating sound, akin to