Nominations HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION Friday, March 11, 2005 Time: 9:30 AM Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building Presiding: Senator Lugar Senator Lugar's Opening Statement   Nominees: R. Nicholas Burns    To be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs C. David Welch    To be Assistant Secretary of State for    Near Eastern Affairs John B. Bellinger, III,    To be Legal Advisor at the State Department   Witness names in blue are links to the statement given. Statements are only posted if provided electronically by witness.