officials, since a catastrophic attack could occur with little or no notice. today there are nearly 80 state department nominees pending before the senate. nearly two dozen have already been voted out of this committee on a strong bipartisan basis. and simply await a vote in the senate. for our national security, i respectfully urge the senate and this committee to move as skbiftly as possible to consider and confirm all pending nominees and address the significant disruption in our national security policy makes. now let me briefly outline what the state department has done in the last couple of weeks and where we re going in the weeks ahead. first as you know, we moved our diplomatic operations from kabul to doha where our new afghan affairs team is hard at work. many of our key partners have done the same thing. they ve joined us there in doha second, we ve continued our efforts to help any remaining americans as well as aftghans leave afghanistan if they