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“RESIGNATION FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H6848 on Dec. 4, 2020.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
RESIGNATION FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Harder of California) laid before the House the following resignation from the House of Representatives:
House of Representatives,
Washington, DC, December 7, 2020.Ms. Nancy Pelosi,Speaker, House of Representatives,Washington, DC.
Dear Speaker Pelosi: I hereby submit my resignation, effective Monday, December 7, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. EST, as the United States Representative of the 8th District of California. Attached is the letter I submitted to the California Secretary of State.
Sincerely,Paul Cook.
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House of Representatives,
Washington, DC, December 7, 2020.Hon. Alex Padilla,Secretary of State, California Department of State,
Sacramento, CA.
Dear Secretary Padilla: I hereby submit my resignation, effective Monday, December 7, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. EST, as the United States Representative of the 8th District of California. Attached is the letter I submitted to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Sincerely,Paul Cook.
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