Thank you for being here, sir. You know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took a. Its something we feel strongly about in 2017 the senate and the house and the National Defense authorization act with a take on additional responsibilities with regards to d get this informatin coming from countries intended to destabilize democracies, undermined some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. My question for you, is there an ability to keep some of these important entities in the Global Engagement centers, specifically from being weekend by the other organizations that could lead to a more difficult time and the responsibilities. Certainly. Thank you, senator. With respect to the Engagement Center it is a priority for something. We are flexible and there is a hiring freeze, but we are flexible and weve granted a number of exceptions, over 700 exceptions to the hiring freeze to support safety, security and health. So, we are reviewing
3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became thachairmand im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and analyzed in well over a decade. This lack of oversight res
Recess will end and we will stand in her new again. I moved to senator corcoran. Care. You for the thank you. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took. I appreciate your coming for the service as well, the funeral. I was not here earlier. I know the hiring present the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to about that a little bit. It is something i feel strongly about. We as a senate and a house and the defense reauthorization act, we ask the local Defense Center to take on more responsibility, specifically with regard to disinformation coming from countries meant to undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. There is an Important Role in pushing back against extremism, is question for you is there an ability to keep some of these important entities like the Global Engagement centers specifically from being weakened by a hiring freeze or by other reorganizations that
Venezuelan people and global markets, we are issuing general licenses permitting ands actions that would otherwise be prohibited under the executive order. These include a 30 day wind down time, the financing for humanitarian goods to venezuela, and certain dealings in specified debt instruments that it on secondary markets and certain dealings with u. S. Entities owned or controlled by the government of venezuela. Also the executive order carves out shortterm financing for most commercial trade including the export and import of petroleum. This executive order builds on a number of actions taken by the u. S. Government to prevent the flow of funds to maduros regime. On my first day in office, i was here with you at this podium when the Treasury Department venezuelanthe president under the kingpin act. We have sanctioned 30 officials including maduro himself. We urge those within the regime including those who had an sanctioned to distance the violence and the dictatorship. President t
Venezuelan people and global markets, we are issuing general licenses permitting ands actions that would otherwise be prohibited under the executive order. These include a 30 day wind down time, the financing for humanitarian goods to venezuela, and certain dealings in specified debt instruments that it on secondary markets and certain dealings with u. S. Entities owned or controlled by the government of venezuela. Also the executive order carves out shortterm financing for most commercial trade including the export and import of petroleum. This executive order builds on a number of actions taken by the u. S. Government to prevent the flow of funds to maduros regime. On my first day in office, i was here with you at this podium when the Treasury Department venezuelanthe president under the kingpin act. We have sanctioned 30 officials including maduro himself. We urge those within the regime including those who had an sanctioned to distance the violence and the dictatorship. President t