EurasianeurAsian Affairs. Live coverage here on thoigs. Cspan3. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have an unusual procedure today. As usual well defer to the outstanding senators who are here to introduce others, and we thank them for being here. Its an honor to have you here in our committee. We will let them go first so that they can go on to their other business. We will then convene adjourn and convene the business meetings for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominees out and pass some bills out. And then well resume with the great testimony we know well hear from our nominees. So with that, again, we welcome you. If i i dont know if i can remember the seniority order. I know senator cornyn is first in soeniority. Ill let you guys armwrestle over it while senator cornyn gets his comments. Thank you so much for being willing to come and make good comments about outstanding nominees. We thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, chairman corker. And Ranking Member carden,
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Absolutely. Hello, welcome. [speaking french] thank you for being here. It is a great honor for me to be here and im somewhat intimidated even though its been several years since minister and the president were in office im still intimidated when im around them, but i do want to point out that our titles start with the same word, former. [laughter] so that makes us as equal. [laughter] [inaudible] [laughter] you would have a lot of reason to take that back. [laughter] its so bright i can see, but i know that google is here somewhere. I would like to acknowledge ramon and my partner when i was the ambassador, he was the canadian ambassador to the United States and was a remarkable Career Foreign Service officer for canada and we did work very well together which i think is a model for how ambassadors should work. President clinton looked for a nephew t to a point ambassador o canada, couldnt find one and settled on me. [laughter] so, lets move along. These two gentlemen served as the ke
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There will be light rain. Did you this thing has changed today with a lot of cloud cover. We will get the rain in here tonight. 600s on the temperatures. Were you out the wearing your shorts again yesterday sal . What wants to know . I do. Yes. There you go. 70 degrees. Why not . It was wonderful. Im doing what you say. I listen to you every morning. Several time a morn and i listen and i knew it was going to be nice weather and you were right. Lets look at the drives now. I want to show you the traffic on the bay bridge span is going to bedwetterring a little slower. We normally do have lights that are on and you can see the towers. Some sort of issue. Just to show you where the tower would be. Right here. Yeah . So . Its not there. Traffic seems to be okay. Also going on on the other side. Now normally we see on the lower deck of the bay bridge you see lights here but its all dark. See this is what you would normally see. The only thing you do see on this are the deck ratiff right it