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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D750 on July 12.
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)
AUTHORIZATIONS FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on S.J. Res. 10, to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq, focusing on recent United States military strikes in Iraq and Syria, from Joey Hood, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and Joshua Dorosin, Office of the Legal Advisor, both of the Department of State; and Catherine Visser, Special Counsel to the General Counsel, and Dana Stroul, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East, both of the Department of Defense.
