there s blame to share right here in congress. over the past two years alone, the request, for diplomatic funding has been slashed in congress and current appropriations bill for fiscal 2013 continues the negative trend slashing funding for worldwide protection, embassy security, construction and maintenance by more than 260 million dollars so i d like to ask you, madam secretary, do you think that congress has provided adequate resources for diplomatic security in recent years? can you talk about security priorities? you ve not been able to complete due to inadequate budget? and what advice would you give the committee as it considers funding to protect our diplomates? and i want to also add what would happen even worse to the security of our diplomates and our diplomatic facilities if there is a sequester or worse, the government shut down, as the state department begin planning for the dangers of congress not agreeing on a