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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1109 on Oct. 4, 2018.
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.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BROADBAND IN RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine broadband, focusing on opportunities and challenges in rural America, after receiving testimony from Denny Law, Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc., Wall, South Dakota; Mona Thompson, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone Authority, Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Grant B. Spellmeyer, United States Cellular Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; and Godfrey Enjady, Mescalero Apache Telecommunications, Inc., Mescalero, New Mexico.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Earle D. Litzenberger, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Eric George Nelson, of Texas, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Judith Gail Garber, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, and Jeffrey Ross Gunter, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
