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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the in the Daily Digest section section on page D575 on May 24.
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 3,418 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Reuben E. Brigety II, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Michael Battle, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, who was introduced by Senators Portman and Ossoff, Margaret C. Whitman, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kenya, who was introduced by Senator Romney, Michael C. Gonzales, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, John T. Godfrey, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Sudan, and Michael J. Adler, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
