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Blinken told reporters that he had sent a letter to every member of the Senate urging swift confirmation of dozens of nominees for State Department positions. The nominations are being held back by Republican Senator Rand Paul while he seeks information from the administration on the origins of COVID-19. The department said it currently has 62 nominees outstanding with the Senate, including 38 ambassadorial nominees. Separately, nominations for more than 250 positions in the U.S. military are also being delayed by a single Republican - Senator Tommy Tuberville. Most nominations are approved by Senate committees, and eventually reviewed by the full Senate, which is controlled by Biden's fellow Democrats.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Joe Biden's, Blinken, Rand Paul, Paul, Tommy Tuberville, Tuberville, Patricia Zengerle, Simon Lewis, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: State Department, Republican, Senate, Defense Department, Thomson Locations: U.S

Representative Tim Burchett, a Republican member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, asked Blinken why U.S. funds are going to pay pensions in Ukraine when there is talk about funding for the Medicare government health insurance system. Blinken acknowledged the "generosity of American taxpayers," but said the burden had been shared by more than 50 other countries. The United States has committed $32 billion of security assistance for Ukraine, but $22 billion has been committed by other countries. And Washington has sent $2 billion in humanitarian assistance, but other countries have sent $3.5 billion, Blinken said. "If we pulled the plug on that, either ourselves or allies and partners, it would have disastrous consequences for Ukraine," Blinken said.

And I'm prepared to serve this," Representative Michael McCaul told Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he testified to the committee about the department's budget request. McCaul has launched an investigation into the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and events in the country since. McCaul sent a letter to Blinken this week requesting the information before Thursday. Blinken responded at Thursday's hearing that the department is working to provide as much information as possible. Blinken told the committee that several Americans were being held in Afghanistan, but they were not being identified at their families' request.

WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - China is "very carefully" watching how Washington and the world respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but has not yet crossed the line of providing lethal aid to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. "The stakes in Ukraine go well beyond Ukraine. However, he said he did not believe that China has been providing lethal aid to Moscow. "As we speak today, we have not seen them cross that line," Blinken told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, the first of four times he will testify to congressional committees this week. "The post-Cold War world is over, and there is an intense competition under way to determine what comes next," Blinken said.

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