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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D524-D525 on May 17.
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)
HORN OF AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on the challenges and opportunities for the United States in the Horn of Africa from Robert F. Godec, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, and Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, both of the Department of State; and the National Intelligence Officer for Africa, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
