And great question. And this concludes todays hearing. I want to thank all of our witnesses for appearing and without objection, all members will have five legislative days to submit additional written questions. Ms. Busch, you can submit your last question for the witnesses or additional materials for the record. With that, the hearing is adjourned. Week nights, we have our lectures in history series, John Heitmann and Tothd Uhlman have the program cars in america. They also talk about the impact of oil shortages, the rise of coast to coast races called cannonball runs and the popularity of trucker movies and music. Watch american History Tonight starting at 8 eastern and every weekend on cspan 3. American History Tv on cspan 3 every weekday, saturday at 5 p. M. Eastern, a look at controversies over free speech with authors jonathan zimmerman and their book free speech and why you should give a dam. 6 p. M. Eastern, author of the civil war. Grants last battle. And saturday at 8 p. M.
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Mr. Secretary, welcome. Pleased to see you again. It is nice to see the secretary engage on a regular basis. We appreciate that. Even though we may not always agree on everything, i appreciate you proactively making yourself available to discuss the budget. It sends a signal about the Value Transparency in our branches of government working together on behalf of the american people. I am pleased to note after four years in which this committee on a bipartisan basis greeted the forward Affairs Budget proposals with various tones of incredulity, we have a serious Budget Proposal that if enacted would represent the largest increase to the regular international Affairs Budget and more than a decade. That is not to say we will cii on all the specific components. Eye to eye on all the specific components. After a year in which the international community has been shaken by the Covid Pandemic, it should be clear to everyone an ounce of revision
Priorities and 2022 budget. Heres the three Hour Hearing chaired by Senator Bob Menendez of new jersey. This hearing comes to order. Mr. Secretary, welcome. Pleased to see you before the committee again its nice to see the secretary engage on a regular basis and we appreciate that. Even though we may not always agree on everything i appreciate you proactively making yourself available to discuss the budget. It sends an important signal about the value of transparency in the two branches of government working together on behalf of the american people. I am also pleased to note after four years in which this committee on a bipartisan basis created the foreign Affairs Budget proposals with various tones of Incredulity Today we have a serious Budget Proposal that if enacted would represent the largest increase to the international Affairs Budget in more thanmo a decade. Thats not to say we will see i to i but we are looking forward to the discussion. After a year during which the community
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Mr. Secretary, welcome. Pleased to see you again. It is nice to see the secretary engage on a regular basis. We appreciate that. Even though we may not always agree on everything, i appreciate you proactively making yourself available to discuss the budget. It sends a signal about the Value Transparency in our branches of government working together on behalf of the american people. I am pleased to note after four years in which this committee on a bipartisan basis greeted the forward Affairs Budget proposals with various tones of incredulity, we have a serious Budget Proposal that if enacted would represent the largest increase to the regular international Affairs Budget and more than a decade. That is not to say we will cii on all the specific components. Eye to eye on all the specific components. After a year in which the international community has been shaken by the Covid Pandemic, it should be clear to everyone an ounce of revision
Address international spread of covid19. Gail smith is the coordinator for global covid response and health security at the u. S. Department of state currently on leave from the one campaign where she has served as president of the ceo since march 2017. Prior to the one campaign she served in the obama administration special assistant to the president and senior director for development and democracy at the national security council and administrator for international development. Jeremy is the executive director of the u. S. A id covid task force serving four years in the obama administration as director of usa ids office of u. S. Foreign disaster assistance where he led the u. S. Government s response to international disaster including ebola outbreak in west africa. Before joining the government, a senior policy fellow of the center for global development. Thank you for your willingness to serve again, we appreciate it very much. The last time this committee held a covid hearing, ju