the senate foreign relations committee will hear testimony from debra jones, president obama's choiceo replace chris stevens, the u.s. ambassador killed in benghazi. look for coverage on c-span.org. also in the senate, the homeland security panel will focus on the border security pr

debra jones is her name. she testified at her senate confirmation hearing today.hen tomorrow morning the house is set to hold another hearing on last year's attack on the u.s. outpost in benghazi, libya. that killed a former u.s. ambassador chris stevens, the state department official sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen dority. -- five page prebuttle testimony we are supposed to hear at the scorcher of the hearing tomorrow. greg hix the number two diplomat under ambassador stevens. he will testify about his pleas in vain for military intervention. mark thompson of the state department's counter terrorism bureau will testify on 9/11 then secretary of state clinton and undersecretary of state patrick kennedy tried to cut the counter terrorism bureau out of the loop. a charge that spokesman for clinton and kennedy call 100% false. democrats on the house oversight committee say they have been cut out of the loop by the panel's republican majority. >> and what we have found is that while this is -- it should be a bipartisan situation, there is on

. >> reporter: at her senate confirmation hearing to be the next ambassador to libya, debra k. jones spoke about the last two. >> if committed i will carry on with congress. >> reporter: on wednesday the house oversight committee will hear testimony from the ambassador's assistant, hicks, i asked is there anything coming, anything out there to help our people from the military? the answer again was the same as before. what was that answer a committee investigator asked. the answer is they're too far away. there is nothing, nothing that could respond. >> if you have people that are being killed, the answer you don't come as you are is r reprehensible. >> that they were told to step down was disputed. >> gregory hicks testified before our board to the best of our recollection. he didn't make that suggestion to our board. however, it was our conclusion there were not assets in place able to reach benghazi in time to have made any significant difference in the attack on the u.s. mission. >> with the committee also set to hear allegations leveled against then secretary of state hillary cl

her name is debra k jones. the president nominated her after the death of ambassador chris stevens.career diplomat who has served in several middle eastern hot spots, including syria and iraq, as well as kuwait and turkey joan still faces a full senate confirmation. more fallout from those automatic success ter spending cuts. the defense secretary chuck hagel says most of the pentagon's 800,000 workers will have to take 11 days off without pay in july. broke the news town hall meeting in virginia. he says he tried everything to avoid the furloughs. he may still be able to shorten them. truth be told he has shortened them. the original estimate was for twice as much unpaid leave. the automatic spending cuts took effect in march after the white house and congress failed to cut a deal to prevent them. a -- well. >> iran is now the newly elected rotating chair of the united nations conference on disarmament. yes, iran. it's a move that the u.s. mission to the united nations is calling unfortunate and highly inappropriate. as you know doubt know, the united nations and the united states

the senate foreign relations committee will hear testimony from debra jones, president obama's choiceo replace chris stevens, the u.s. ambassador killed in benghazi. look for coverage on c-span.org. also in the senate, the homeland security panel will focus on the border security provision in the gang of eight's and immigration proposal. we want to get your take on usa today's front-page story from monday -- and \ / \ send us a tweet, post your comments on facebook.com, or e- mail us. here is "usa today" -- here is a quote from mark zandi -- we want to know what impact this economic growth has had on your paycheck. start dialing in now. good social media, code twitter, go to facebook. facebook. few of from we want to hear about your wages during this economic recovery, during the recession, what has happened. a little bit more from "usa today," this was a front-page story -- we will focus on the impact of the recovery on the wealthiest americans on the last 45 minutes today of "washington journal." right now, what has been the impact on your paycheck of this economic growth? send us a

in 1982, ambassador debra jones began her career as vice council of the u.s. embassy buenos air regs argentina. and she soon began to develop her expertise in the middle east. she is no stranger to tough assignments inch 18990 she was the section chief in damp mass, and syria, the desk officer for the kingdom of jordan from 1995 through 1997. she also was director of the office of the arabian peninsula affairs, and iran bureau of near eastern affairs, and served with dinks in her critical -- dinks in her critical mission of heave consecutive -- slow speaks air back, french, and an ms in national security strategy from the national war college and a b.a. in history from brig a ham young university. following her service as ambassador in kuwait she was work as a senior advised visor for international affairs at the u.s. naval war college and a scholar in residence at the middle east institute. ambassador jones will be ready from day one to tack the numerous challenges facing libya. the libyan people are still struggling to remake their country after years of des