Speaker, and in recent years, there has been someone to do this
important work full time, but it has been reported that the
administration plans to combine this position with the Under Secretary
for Democracy. I think that would be a mistake. The Under Secretary position already oversees the bureaus and offices
that deal with a huge range of issues from counterterrorism, to
refugees, to narcotics, to human trafficking. It is a pretty full
agenda, yet the administration on the one hand says North Korean human
rights should be combined with that job, and on the other hand has not
yet nominated anyone to fill the position. So I think there is a lot of work to be done on both sides, and that
is what we are doing on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
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