2012
December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January
December
12/20/12 Benghazi Attack, Part II: The Report of the Accountability Review Board; Deputy Secretary William J. Burns; Opening Remarks Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Washington, DC
12/20/12 Benghazi: The Attack and the Lessons Learned; Deputy Secretary William J. Burns; Opening Remarks Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC
12/19/12 Update on the Evolving Security Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Implications for U.S. National Security; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the House Armed Services Committee; Washington, DC
12/11/12 The Devastating Crisis in Eastern Congo; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights; Washington, DC
12/05/12 Addressing Developments in Mali: Restoring Democracy and Reclaiming the North; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs; Washington, DC
November
11/28/12 International Human Trafficking and Forced Labor; Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission; Washington, DC
October
10/10/12 Hearing on Benghazi Security Issues; Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy; Testimony Before the House Oversight Committee; Washington, DC
September
09/20/12 Maritime Territorial Disputes and Sovereignty Issues in Asia; Assistant Secretary Kurt M. Campbell, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Washington, DC
09/13/12 Assessing U.S. Policy on Peacekeeping Operations in Africa; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights; Washington, DC
09/10/12 The Continued Free Association with the Republic of Palau Act of 2012; Deputy Assistant Secretary Edgard Kagan, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs ; Washington, DC
August
08/01/12 Implementation of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry Report; Assistant Secretary Michael H. Posner, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Testimony Before the Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights; Washington, DC
July
07/24/12 U.S. Engagement in Central Asia; Assistant Secretary Robert O. Blake, Jr., Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs; House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia; Washington, DC
07/19/12 Human Rights Situation in Bangladesh; Assistant Secretary Robert O. Blake, Jr., Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs; Testimony: Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission U.S. Congress; Washington, DC
07/18/12 Ambassador-Designate to the Republic of the Marshall Islands; Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
06/28/12 Economic Statecraft: Embracing Africa's Market Potential; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Washington, DC
06/27/12 Ambassador-Designate to Burma; Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma Derek Mitchell; Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; Washington, DC
06/21/12 New START Implementation; Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
06/21/12 Russia's WTO Accession: Administration's Views on the Implications for the U.S.; Deputy Secretary William J. Burns; Testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance; Washington, DC
06/20/12 Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization and Granting Russia Permanent Normal Trade Relations; Deputy Secretary William J. Burns; Statement before the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives; Washington, DC
06/07/12 The Path to Freedom: Countering Repression and Strengthening Civil Society in Cuba; Assistant Secretary Roberta S. Jacobson, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; Washington, DC
06/06/12 U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance; Deputy Assistant Secretary James P. Zumwalt, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Washington, DC
May
05/23/12 The Law of the Sea Convention (Treaty Doc. 103-39): The U.S. National Security and Strategic Imperatives for Ratification; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Washington, DC
05/16/12 Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges in South Asia; Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Dan Feldman; The House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia; Washington, DC
05/16/12 Countering Narcotics Threats in West Africa; Assistant Secretary William R. Brownfield, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Statement before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control; Washington, DC
05/16/12 President Obama's Nominee to be Ambassador to Mongolia; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
05/16/12 President Obama's Nominee to be the Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia; Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
05/16/12 Status of the Processing of the Camp Ashraf Residents; House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; Washington, DC
05/10/12 NATO: Chicago and Beyond; Assistant Secretary Philip H. Gordon, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
05/08/12 Building Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific Region; Senior Official for APEC Hans G. Klemm; Statement Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security; Washington, DC
April
04/26/12 The Chicago Summit and U.S. Policy; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Tina S. Kaidanow, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia; Washington, DC
04/26/12 The North-South Sudan Conflict 2012; Assistant Secretary Anne C. Richard, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; Before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives; Washington, DC
04/26/12 U.S. Policy Toward Burma; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Joseph Yun, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Washington, DC
04/25/12 LRA, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Aqim, and Other Sources of Instability in Africa; Coordinator Daniel Benjamin, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism; The House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC
04/25/12 Remarks as Prepared to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere; Assistant Secretary Roberta S. Jacobson, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Washington, DC
04/25/12 The LRA, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, AQIM, and Other Sources of Instability in Africa; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs; Statement Submitted; Washington, DC
04/25/12 The LRA, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, AQIM, and Other Sources of Instability in Africa; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC
04/25/12 U.S. Policy Toward Burma; Assistant Secretary Kurt M. Campbell, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Statement Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Washington, DC
04/24/12 U.S. Policy To Counter the Lord's Resistance Army; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sub-; Washington, DC
04/18/12 Examining the U.S Policy Responses to Entrenched African Leadership; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee African Affairs Subcommittee; Washington, DC
04/18/12 Examining the U.S. Policy Responses to Entrenched African Leadership; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee African Affairs Subcommittee; Washington, DC
04/18/12 The Asia Pacific: Trade Opportunities for Agriculture and Food Producers from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest; Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats; Statement Before the Senate Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness; Washington, DC
04/18/12 The State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism: Budget, Programs, and Policies; Coordinator Daniel Benjamin, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism; House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcomittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade; Washington, DC
04/17/12 The Comprehensive Contingency Contracting Reform Act of 2012; Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy; Statement before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight; Washington, DC
04/17/12 The Increasing American Jobs Through Greater Exports to Africa Act; Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, Bureau of African Affairs; Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on African Affairs; Washington, DC
March
03/29/12 Assessing China's Role and Influence in Africa; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs; Washington, DC
03/29/12 Security Challenges in Latin America; Assistant Secretary William R. Brownfield, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Statement Before the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs of the House Appropriations Committee; Washington, DC
03/27/12 Creating Jobs: Economic Opportunities in Europe and Eurasia; Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats; Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe; Washington, DC
03/27/12 Testimony Before the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform; Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons; Washington, DC
03/14/12 Managing Interagency Nuclear Nonproliferation Efforts: Are We Effectively Securing Nuclear Materials Around the World?; Assistant Secretary Thomas Countryman, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Washington, DC
03/13/12 Nominee for Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia; Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
03/07/12 The State Department's Rewards Programs: Performance and Potential; Deputy Assistant Secretary M. Brooke Darby, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Statement before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Washington, DC
03/01/12 Syria: The Crisis and Its Implications; Assistant Secretary Jeffrey D. Feltman, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs; Opening Statement Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
February
02/29/12 Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities Amidst Economic Challenges: The Foreign Relations Budget for Fiscal Year 2013; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee ; Washington, DC
02/29/12 Budget Hearing for the Department of State and USAID; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Statement Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; Washington, DC
02/28/12 National Security & Foreign Policy Priorities in the FY 2013 International Affairs Budget; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
02/28/12 State Department and USAID Budget Request; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Opening Remarks Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; Washington, DC
02/16/12 Examining the European Debt Crisis and its Implications; Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats; Testimony before the Senate Banking Committee; Washington, DC
02/07/12 The U.S.-Philippines Alliance: Deepening the Security and Trade Partnership; Assistant Secretary Kurt M. Campbell, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade; Washington, DC
02/02/12 U.S. Policy Toward Post-Election Democratic Republic of the Congo; Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Baer, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Testimony Before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights; Washington, DC
02/02/12 U.S. Policy Toward Post-Election Democratic Republic of the Congo; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs; House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights; Washington, DC