I returned from the British Virgin islands where i saw the scale of destruction and the ordeal that have affected the people across the caribbean and in florida. To provide heavy lift for their aid effort. Theres help with overseas territories and in addition the government will match every pound to a maximum 3 million. Later today im going to chair cobra ii check on the progress of our response. The minister for the commonwealth is arriving tonight to assess the situation on that british territory. Once the emergency is over the overriding need will be for longterm reconstruction to get our caribbean territories back on their feet and in that effort written, france, the u. S. And the netherlands will be working sidebyside. I met with this the secretary tillerson and their colleagues from egypt United Arab Emirates and france. Libya is a frontline in our common struggle against terrorism and illegal migration and we all share of vital interest too countries stability. Our shared goal i
Please feel free as you come to your turn to introduce your family and friends who are here with you. We thank them for their willingness to support you and the efforts that youre getting ready to undertake. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much mr. Chairman. I dont have my two teenagers here. Many of you knew them when they were little babies and i was walking the halls with them because they are both back in dallas. I have my neighbor from virginia. We do hope to get you to nato by the time School Enrollment starts. Okay thank you. It is so important that my son start school on time so i think both of you for acknowledging that. I also want to thank you, mr. Chairman and mr. Ranking member for your courtesy throughout this process, and your leadership and the way you work this committee. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate all the members of the committee and i know how much you spend in time and effort to make sure our foreign policy, i ow our ambassadors and state departmen
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i