John Curtis: “I've picked up the Uyghur Policy act, which you led when you…”

“Your budget notes the merging of the Foreign Service Institute, where a lot of the state language training takes place with the Human Resource Bureau. And I'm hoping that can improve the language capacity. But here in the Senate, I've picked up the Uyghur Policy act, which you led when you were here. Part of the bill that I'm especially supportive of is the provision that's supporting the Uyghur language training for Forest Service officers is not only important, but required, and that we have Foreign Service officers and in Asia and China that can speak that language.” (03:19–03:24)

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