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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1021 on Nov. 30, 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)
UAE ARMS SALES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on United Arab Emirates arms sales from R. Clarke Cooper, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, and David Schenker, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, both of the Department of State; and Michael Cutrone, PTDO ASD for International Security Affairs, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
