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Rex tillerson was on capitol hill this past week to outline the president s 2018 budget request for the state department. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had questions about those budget cuts, sanctions against countries doing business with north korea, and future relations with russia. It was also at this hearing were secretary tillerson announced the release of an American College student who had been imprisoned in north korea since march of last year. The Foreign Relations committee has come to order. Banging] tillerson, we appreciate you being here. We were having a discu...

He talked about foreign aide and stratsagies dealing with russia, north korea, and cuba. Held before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, this is two hours. The subcommittee hearing will come to order. Our hearing today is on the president s fiscal 2018 funding request and budget for the department of state. Id like to welcome our witness, secretary of state tillerson. After Opening Statements from myself and Ranking Member, well hear from the secretary and accept your written testimony and anything youd like to tell us personally. So this is going to be a little bit longer than normal. This ...

Committee. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Mr. Tillerson, mr. Secretary, we appreciate you being here. Were having a little bit of a discussion about the timing issue. We do have a lot of other things happening today, and i would really like to finish this in one round. So what i think im going to do without i think what well do, senator cardin, if it is okay with you, lets put six minutes on the clock. If we need to have a second round for some reason we will. Im open to discussion about that right now if you wish. I think six minutes sounds fair on the first round. I dont wan...

Committee. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Mr. Tillerson, mr. Secretary, we appreciate you being here. Were having a little bit of a discussion about the timing issue. We do have a lot of other things happening today, and i would really like to finish this in one round. So what i think im going to do without i think what well do, senator cardin, if it is okay with you, lets put six minutes on the clock. If we need to have a second round for some reason we will. Im open to discussion about that right now if you wish. I think six minutes sounds fair on the first round. I dont wan...

3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a t...