RANKING MEMBER SHAHEEN OPENING REMARKS FOR NOMINATIONS HEARING FOR KEY AMBASSADORIAL POSITIONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member issued the following news release:

Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks during a committee hearing on the nominations of Michael Young to be Ambassador to Serbia, Ronald Johnson to be Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Julia Nesheiwat to be Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic, Steven Gillen to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic and Nutan Patel to be Ambassador to Cabo Verde.

You can watch her opening remarks here (https://youtu.be/qmZTolV-sho).

"More than thirty years ago, the United States helped end the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina," said Ranking Member Shaheen. "That w...