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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D811 on Sept. 17, 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:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 3 nominations in the Army and Air Force.
NNSA BUDGET MATTERS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine matters relating to the budget of the National Nuclear Security Administration, after receiving testimony from Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; and Ellen M. Lord, Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment, and Admiral Charles A. Richard, USN, Commander, United States Strategic Command, both of the Department of Defense.
U.S. ENGAGEMENT IN THE INDO-PACIFIC AND BEYOND
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine advancing U.S. engagement and countering China in the Indo-
Pacific and beyond, after receiving testimony from Julie Chung, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Philip T. Reeker, Acting Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, and David R. Stilwell, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, all of the Department of State.
FIXING THE FAFSA
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine fixing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, after receiving testimony from Kim Cook, National College Attainment Network, Washington, D.C.; Rachelle Feldman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kristin D. Hultquist, HCM Strategists, Englewood, Colorado; Judith Scott-Clayton, Columbia University Teachers College, New York, New York; and Bridget Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of J. Philip Calabrese, and James Ray Knepp II, both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Aileen Mercedes Cannon, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Toby Crouse, to be United States District Judge for the District of Kansas, Michael Jay Newman, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, and Anna Maria Ruzinski, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Gregory Scott Tabor, of Arkansas, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, both of the Department of Justice.
