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Office of Regional, Global, and Functional Affairs

Our Mission

The Office of Regional, Global, and Functional Affairs interacts with Congress on the Department’s full range of policy issues of interest to the Congress. The office’s Legislative Management Officers are the principal substantive liaison officers between Department bureaus and Congressional offices. It works in close cooperation with the Department bureaus in briefings on administration policy and manages Congressional appearances of Department witnesses for foreign policy hearings.

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