WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Steve Daines issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, where urged his colleagues to swiftly confirm Christopher Anderson, President Trump's nominee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia. Anderson has served on Daines' staff for more than four years.

Daines' opening remarks:

Today I have the honor of introducing Christopher Anderson, President Trump's nominee for Ambassador to Cambodia. He hails from Barron, Wisconsin, a small town with a population of 3,000, where he tells me that there are more turkeys than people.

And Chris is a lot of things. He is the husband to Jen, sitting right behind him, and father of Charlotte, the 1...