CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings March 9, 2016
Our Relations Committee will come to order. I want to thank you for your testimony today. As chairman one of our priorities as the state Department Reauthorization process. I want to thank senator menendez for beginning that. I think its critical oversight tool and a healthy exercise to take an annual look at the authorities that need updating. We passed an authorization bill out of Committee Last year for the first time in five years. We hope to build upon that progress with another bipartisan bill for 2017. Like last year, our bill will focus on diplomacy programs and the nuts and bolts oper...