Honorable Hillary Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State
Secretary Clinton has served as U.S. secretary of state since January 21, 2009. For the previous eight years, she was a U.S. senator from New York. The following is excerpted from a May 23, 2012, statement during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “The Law of the Sea Convention: The U.S. National Security and Strategic Imperatives for Ratification.” Joining the convention and the 1994 Agreement that modifies its deep seabed mining provisions is a priority for the Department of State and for me personally. U.S. interests are deeply tied to the oceans. No country is in a position to…
