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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D278 on March 22.
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)
U.S. AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on the policy and legal rationale of U.S. airstrikes in Syria from Joey Hood, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and a briefer from the Office of the Legal Advisor, both of the Department of State; official briefer, Office of the Director for National Intelligence; and Dana Stroul, Deputy Assistant Secretary, and Lieutenant General James Mingus, USA, Director for Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
