15 minutes. We will reconvene at 5 49. You are welcome to our great coffee back there or sitting and talking to others, but thank you. Recess will end and well stand in hearing again. Ill move to senator portman. Thank you for being here, sir. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took on getting ot ot Otto Warmbier home. I appreciate you coming to his funeral. I know the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to you about that as it relates to the Global Engagement center. As you know it is something i feel strongly about. In 2017 as a senate and house in the National Defense authorization act asked the Global Engagement center to take on additional responsibilities, specifically with regard toinformation coming from countries intended to destabilize democracies, undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. Gc also has an important role, as you know
15 minutes. We will reconvene at 5 49. You are welcome to our great coffee back there or sitting and talking to others, but thank you. Recess will end and well stand in hearing again. Ill move to senator portman. Thank you for being here, sir. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took on getting ot ot Otto Warmbier home. I appreciate you coming to his funeral. I know the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to you about that as it relates to the Global Engagement center. As you know it is something i feel strongly about. In 2017 as a senate and house in the National Defense authorization act asked the Global Engagement center to take on additional responsibilities, specifically with regard toinformation coming from countries intended to destabilize democracies, undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. Gc also has an important role, as you know
15 minutes. We will reconvene at 5 49. You are welcome to our great coffee back there or sitting and talking to others, but thank you. Recess will end and well stand in hearing again. Ill move to senator portman. Thank you for being here, sir. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took on getting ot ot Otto Warmbier home. I appreciate you coming to his funeral. I know the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to you about that as it relates to the Global Engagement center. As you know it is something i feel strongly about. In 2017 as a senate and house in the National Defense authorization act asked the Global Engagement center to take on additional responsibilities, specifically with regard toinformation coming from countries intended to destabilize democracies, undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. Gc also has an important role, as you know
Provider. Now deputy secretary of John Sullivan testifies about reorganization plans. My question for you is, is there an ability to keep some of these important entities like the Global Engagement specifically from being weakened by a hiring freeze or other reorganizations that could lead to it having more difficult time carrying out its mportant responsibility . We would certainly entertain that. I think that the threats we talked about do present a National Security threat to the United States of america and ertainly that would qualify. Its more important than ever. I thank you for that. Like you to do is to get back to me on that and see why they have not mea a request. On the reorganization in general, like you to do i know an opportunity to speak about the this. The many entities that you now have oversight over in your role as deputy. The military financing. I think fmf is a critical component. That was to be reduced by 19 by 2017. With 95 of the request allocated to just four c
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