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the justice department, and daniel bennett smith, nominee to lead the state department's into rowe of intelligence and research this. uns about two hours. >> the committee will come to order. we meet today to consider two of president obama's nominees in the intelligence committee. mrs. caroline dianne krass, nominee to be the general counsel of the c.i.a., and ambassador daniel bennett smith, secretary of state for intelligence and research, i.n.r. welcome to you both. and to the family and friends with you today. i also understand that senator bennett will be introducing ms. krass and should arrive shortly from another hearing. when he does come in, i will give him the opportunity to make his remarks, and then we will go back to whatever we are doing. we are received appears toss our prehearing questions from both nominees, and those can be found on the committee's website for anyone who's interested. and we look forward to hearing both of your opening statements. this committee has the jurisdiction over all nominees requiring senate confirmation within the intelligence community

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cia, and ambassador daniel bennett smith, nominee to be assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. as we would say, inr. welcome to you both, and to the family and friends with you today. i also understand that senator bennett will be introducing ms. krass and should arrive shortly from another hearing. when he does come in, i will give him the opportunity to make his remarks, and then we will go back to whatever we are doing. we have received answers to our prehearing questions from both nominees, and those can be found on the committee's website for anyone who's interested. and we look towaforward to hear both of your opening statements. this committee has the jurisdiction over all nominees requiring senate confirmation within the intelligence community, and we try to move that process as quickly as we can. the number of these positions is fairly small, and so i appreciate my colleagues' cooperation to keep the process running. it is my hope that we will be able to vote on these two nominees as one of the first orders of business when we return in january. both ms.