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the hearing of the senate foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today. as this committee continues to seek to restore its position of conducting robust oversight, we greatly appreciate your willingness, like that of secretary blinken, to come before us for hearings, and that s refreshing. let me also acknowledge that you and secretary blinken inherited a damaged and depleted state department. as i documented in a committee report last year, diplomacy in crisis, the last administration s repeated assault on state department personnel, management, and resources were, in my view, unconscionable and dangerous for long-term u.s. foreign policy interests. when you assume your position, morale was at its lowest point in decades. confidence in leadership had decayed. key bureaus had been gutted. budgetary and morale problems at the department are the result of many years, multiple administrations, and, yes, congressional acti ....
the hearing of the senate foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today. as this committee continues to seek to restore its position of conducting robust oversight, we greatly appreciate your willingness, like that of secretary blinken, to come before us for hearings, and that s refreshing. let me also acknowledge that you and secretary blinken inherited a damaged and depleted state department. as i documented in a committee report last year, diplomacy in crisis, the last administration s repeated assault on state department personnel, management, and resources were, in my view, unconscionable and dangerous for long-term u.s. foreign policy interests. when you assume your position, morale was at its lowest point in decades. confidence in leadership had decayed. key bureaus had been gutted. budgetary and morale problems at the department are the result of many years, multiple administrations, and, yes, congressional acti ....
the hearing of the senate foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today. as this committee continues to seek to restore its position of conducting robust oversight, we greatly appreciate your willingness, like that of secretary blinken, to come before us for hearings, and that s refreshing. let me also acknowledge that you and secretary blinken inherited a damaged and depleted state department. as i documented in a committee report last year, diplomacy in crisis, the last administration s repeated assault on state department personnel, management, and resources were, in my view, unconscionable and dangerous for long-term u.s. foreign policy interests. when you assume your position, morale was at its lowest point in decades. confidence in leadership had decayed. key bureaus had been gutted. budgetary and morale problems at the department are the result of many years, multiple administrations, and, yes, congressional acti ....
the hearing of the senate foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today. as this committee continues to seek to restore its position of conducting robust oversight, we greatly appreciate your willingness, like that of secretary blinken, to come before us for hearings, and that s refreshing. let me also acknowledge that you and secretary blinken inherited a damaged and depleted state department. as i documented in a committee report last year, diplomacy in crisis, the last administration s repeated assault on state department personnel, management, and resources were, in my view, unconscionable and dangerous for long-term u.s. foreign policy interests. when you assume your position, morale was at its lowest point in decades. confidence in leadership had decayed. key bureaus had been gutted. budgetary and morale problems at the department are the result of many years, multiple administrations, and, yes, congressional acti ....
china. this is about 90 minutes. the hearing of the senate foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today. as this committee continues to seek to restore its position of conducting robust oversight, we greatly appreciate your willingness, like that of secretary blinken, to come before us for hearings, and that s refreshing. let me also acknowledge that you and secretary blinken inherited a damaged and depleted state department. as i documented in a committee report last year, diplomacy in crisis, the last administration s repeated assault on state department personnel, management, and resources were, in my view, unconscionable and dangerous for long-term u.s. foreign policy interests. when you assume your position, morale was at its lowest point in decades. confidence in leadership had decayed. key bureaus had been gutted. budgetary and morale problems at the department are the result of many years, multiple administratio ....