[inaudible [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. we have an unusual proceduretoda today. as usual, we will defer to the outstanding senators who are here to introduce the others and we thank them for being here. it is an honor to have you in the committee that we will let them go first so they can go on to their other business and we will then convene the business meeting for just a moment andur hopefully pass the nominees and pass some bills out and then we will resume with the greathear testimony from the nominees. with that again, we welcome youu if i can remember the seniority order we thank you for being back here with another and i don t know whether senator lee or senator manchin came next. thank you for being willing to come and make good comments thank you. thanks for holding this hearing and i am here primarily to introduce wes mitchell but i have to comment on the great willingness of jon huntsman to o serve the country once againsm this ti
jon huntsman is president trump nominee to be ambassador to russia. he has a reason served as ambassador to china and governor of utah appeared at his senate confirmation hearing, mr. huntsman discussed the u.s. relationship with russia. senator bob corker chairs the relations committee. this hearing is two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the relations committee will come to order. we have an unusual procedure today. as usual, we will do for today outstanding senators who are here to introduce others and we thank them for being here. it anon or to have you here in our committee. we let them go first so they can go on to their other business. we ll then convened adjourning pending the business meeting for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominee is out and passing bills out and then we will resume with a great testimony we know we ll hear from our nominees. with that, and we welcome you. if i can remember the seniority order, i know senator c
[inaudible conversations] the relations committee will come to order. we have an unusual procedure today. as usual, we will do for today outstanding senators who are here to introduce others and we thank them for being here. it anon or to have you here in our committee. we let them go first so they can go on to their other business. we ll then convened adjourning pending the business meeting for just a moment and hopefully pass the nominee is out and passing bills out and then we will resume with a great testimony we know we ll hear from our nominees. with that, and we welcome you. if i can remember the seniority order, i know senator cornyn is first in seniority. i don t know whether senator leahy or senator manchin i will let you guys arm wrestle over that while senator cornyn gets his comments. thank you very much for being willing to come and make good comments about outstanding nominees. we thank you. thank you, chairman corker and ranking member card in. thanks
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