Business meeting to consider pending calendar nominations.

Committee on Foreign Relations

2025-04-09

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Transcript

Thank you.
The Foreign Relations Committee will come to order in a business meeting.  We have for consideration this morning five nominees.  It's been requested we have a roll call vote on each of them.  I respect the request.  We're going to do that.  We're going to start with Monica Crowley.  Is there a motion to send her to the floor with a confirmation?  It's been moved and been seconded.  Is there debate?   There'd be nobody and you want to roll call voting up clicker call a roll call, please I have a proxy By proxy No, no by proxy I
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Unknown (SPEAKER_11)
No by proxy.  No by proxy.  No by proxy.  No by proxy.  No by proxy.  No by proxy.  No by proxy.
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Unknown (SPEAKER_03)
No by proxy.  Does that count for two?  I think so.  Aye.  Clerk a report.   Motions passed, the floor will be informed.  Next one's gonna be Mr. Warren Stevens.  Is there a motion?  So moved.  Second.   There's been a motion and a second that Mr. Warren Stevens be sent to the floor of the recommendation.  He be confirmed.  Senator Shaheen, remarks.  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I intend to vote for Mr. Stevens, but I just want to put into the record the concerns that I have regarding both the appointment of a special envoy and an ambassador to the United Kingdom.  I think it's a recipe for confusion, especially given the importance of AUKUS right now on...   the role of the United Kingdom and the United States.  I hope that this committee is going to ensure that the roles and responsibilities of the ambassador and special envoy are clearly delineated and that once the special envoy's temporary appointment concludes that this committee will have the opportunity to consider his nomination pursuant to the bipartisan law that requires Senate confirmation of special envoys.   Thank you, Senator Shaheen.  Certainly a legitimate request, and we're going to have Senator Rubio here before very long, and he can probably explain some of these things for us.  So further debate.  Being no further debate, you want to call on all of them?
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Unknown (SPEAKER_02)
Yes, please.  The clerk will call the roll.  Mr. Ricketts.  Aye.  Mr. McCormick.  Aye by proxy.  Aye by proxy.  Aye.  Aye.  Aye.

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