Senator Kaine and I, who's the ranking member, tried to do a hearing on Venezuela late last year. We were told the State Department would not participate in that hearing. I'm trying to put together a hearing right now on the prioritization of the Western Hemisphere, which I think would be very helpful to the administration. And we're struggling to get the State Department to participate in that. I couldn't get a briefing on the drug bill operations until the Cain War power resolution. And then all of a sudden we got a briefing. (01:26–01:39)
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