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Budget? >> well, congressman engel, this is a bipartisan problem. since 2007, the department has consistently requested greater funding for embassy construction and diplomatic security, but with the exception of 2010, the congress has consistently enacted less than requested. most notably in 2012, the department received 340 million dollars less than requested, close to 10% less. now, over the last two years, cuts to the embassy construction, security and maintenance budget was almost 10% of that as well. now, the arb and i would refer to them because, now, they had an independent view of this...

Has recommended an increase in facilities funding to 2.2 billion per year to restore the construction levels called for in the 1998 arb report. the only other one that was ever public. and i would go back to something the chairman said because this was a point made in the arb. consistent shortfalls have required the department to prioritize available funding out of security accounts. and i will be the first to say that the prioritization process was at times imperfect but as the arb said the funds provided were inadequate. so we need to work together to overcome that. we are asking for funding...

I think it is an opportunity also as a committee but also as a country to develop a foreign policy that reflects again the dynamics of the region as they really are today. and then lastly, i think this is an opportunity this committee to finally do the work that it should have been doing for years. when you read the arb report and you realize we have never done an authorization of the state department in the six years that i've been here, we've never looked how foreign aid has been spent. we have never done a top to bottom review, i know it is something people like you who come to this positio...

And thank you very much, secretary clinton, for your contributions to securing america's place in the world for the past four years and for your contributions towards world peace. the first question i'd like to ask you has to do with the accountability review report. the report does identify specifically people who were found to have endangered in the department in systemic failures and inefficiencies. i want to be clear. you were not one of those people, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> now, it was identified a report dating from the 1990s had said that the secretary should take a perso...

Same type of flag in tunisia where the protesters were outside the embassy there. in addition i have a flag -- picture taken in cairo at the u.s. embassy where demonstrations took place. another picture in jordan at the u.s. embassy where protests took place. in bahrain over 2000 protesters who burned numerous u.s. and israeli flags again at the embassy. in kuwait chanting obama we are all osama. the flag again. and in libya, the flag was carried through the streets there as well. my question, madam secretary, is were you aware of this d.o.d. report prior to the terrorist attack in benghazi? >...