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since 2007, Carl Levin leads Senate oversight of the Pentagon and is at the forefront of the raging debate over the defense budget. Levin and Sen. John McCain, the committee's ranking member, agree that the $600 billion in military cuts set to take effect next year unless a new budget passes would be, in

passes would be, in Levin's words, "a train wreck." (Defense Secretary Panetta has preferred the more apocalyptic "doomsday mechanism.") But while McCain has proposed protecting the defense budget by reducing federal spending elsewhere, Levin has argued, "We should do something intelligent, which mea

companied Bill Clinton to North Korea to en gotiate the release of two American journalists who had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. 13. Jake Sullivan Despite his slight frame and tender age -- he is not yet 40 -- Jake Sullivan is a definite heavyweight in the U.S. foreign policy establishment. A

convince his Egyptian counterpart to refrain from kwidating protest camps of Morsi supporters in August. The subsequent diplomatic efforts of Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham were equally futile. For Egypt's current leaders, Washington is no longer a prime guarantor of security and stability. The US-Eg

The subsequent diplomatic efforts of Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham were equally futile. For Egyp

day sessions, along with two of Ms. Rice's deputies, Antony J. Blinken and Benjamin J. Rhodes; the national security adviser to the vice president, Jake Sullivan; the president's counterterrorism adviser, Lisa Monaco; a senior economic official, Caroline Atkinson; and a handful of others. It was a tight gro

pan." According to the US Navy, "the USS John S. McCain was sailing in the vicinity of Peter the Great Ba

crease the amount of cybersecurity intelligence that government shared with industry." Biden's pick for Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, as well as Jake Sullivan at NSA and Avril Haines as DNI, "tackled cybersecurity problems during the Obama years." DHS will also play "a major role helping state and county