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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D713-D714 on June 21, 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.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill (S. 3107) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019;
An original bill (S. 3108) making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019; and
An original bill (S. 3109) making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Gordon D. Sondland, of Washington, to be Representative of the United States of America to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, who was introduced by Senators Tillis and Wyden, Ronald Gidwitz, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, who was introduced by Senators Gardner and Durbin, Cherith Norman Chalet, of New Jersey, to be Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, and Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Edward W. Felten, of New Jersey, and Jane Nitze, of the District of Columbia, both to be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
