Hearing for state Department Nominees Including ambassador at large for Global Health security and diplomacy as well as u. S. Ambassadors. This is about an hour 20 minutes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Arme
[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Armed Services and Foreign Relations but sense of National Defense authorization bill will be up soon and im going to need his help, he goes first. [l
Security u. S. National security and investment in submarine production and maintenance. This is held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In march, President Biden stood alongside the leaders of the United Kingdom and australia to announce the agreement. A generational opportunity that will enhance u. S. National security interest by interests y transforming our alliances. Toot deterring aggression from the peoples republic of china fostering a more peaceful and stable indoic pacific. Beijing today has the Worlds Largest navy. Xi jinping hyper nationalist government has been laying claim to territory in international waters. They have built artificial buils for new operating basis with runways for military aircraft and ballistic missiles. At the same time they are aggressively trying to influence australia politics and civil society. Buying Critical Infr
Security u. S. National security and investment in submarine production and maintenance. This is held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In march, President Biden stood alongside the leaders of the United Kingdom and australia to announce the agreement. A generational opportunity that will enhance u. S. National security interest by interests y transforming our alliances. Toot deterring aggression from the peoples republic of china fostering a more peaceful and stable indoic pacific. Beijing today has the Worlds Largest navy. Xi jinping hyper nationalist government has been laying claim to territory in international waters. They have built artificial buils for new operating basis with runways for military aircraft and ballistic missiles. At the same time they are aggressively trying to influence australia politics and civil society. Buying Critical Infr
Security u. S. National security and investment in submarine production and maintenance. This is held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. In march, President Biden stood alongside the leaders of the United Kingdom and australia to announce the agreement. A generational opportunity that will enhance u. S. National security interest by interests y transforming our alliances. Toot deterring aggression from the peoples republic of china fostering a more peaceful and stable indoic pacific. Beijing today has the Worlds Largest navy. Xi jinping hyper nationalist government has been laying claim to territory in international waters. They have built artificial buils for new operating basis with runways for military aircraft and ballistic missiles. At the same time they are aggressively trying to influence australia politics and civil society. Buying Critical Infr