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Welcome afghans to the united states. let me just start with a question about visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a bipartisan letter in mid-august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. i'm interested if how you are working to expand eligibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but who were not direct employees? i want to start if i could, mr. secretary by asking you yes or no questions about three groups that other senators have mentioned. there are about 550 employees and family me...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it wh...