mr. chairman. i don't believe the congressional defeat of this nublt deal -- nuclear deal will lead inevitably to war. i don't think that is right. i think iran would we careful to become a threshold state but not to cross the line. but neither do i believe that it leds to an iranian nuclear weapon. a lot will depend on what we do. not so much president obama, but the next president an the president after that. and i think that is what congress should be thinking about. how do we strengthen america's strategic policy in the middle east to deter the iranians as we implement the nuclear deal. the president is giving a speech at this hour at the american university. i hope what he is saying there is that we're going to close the big gap right now between the united states and israel and assure israel's military edge. and i assume he's saying that ptd and that we -- and that we can continue -- i think successfully this week, we should say -- the american president should say that he would use force aga

mr. chairman. mr. wheeler, the big issue that i've been involved in as pirate radio, which you may know. and back in early june, pretty much every new york member of congress as well as jersey sent you a letter. and while the issue may not be a terrible issue in some parts of the country, it truly is in new york city as evidenced by not often you can get 27 members of new york to agree. upstate and downstate, we're like two different worlds. to sum it up, we're extraordinarily disappointed the fcc has clearly said it's not a priority. we've got the letter just from you yesterday. and it -- and i understand budget concerns. i guess what i'm trying to -- the point i want to emphasize is, this is an issue, even though it's not to you, and you are the chairman. we really don't appreciate you saying that, as you put in here, the time and expense of pursuing these cases present particular difficulties in the current flat budget environment where the commission staffing is at its lowest point in 30 years. ove

mr. chairman and to you all for being here today. mr. chairman chairman wheeler on july 24th four days ago, your agency announced that granted with conditions approval of the transfer of control licenses and authorization from directv to at&t. we hear much about the 180-day shop clock for reviewing such transfers, yet your agency's provisional grant of approval took over twice the amount of time, as you're well aware, over 400 days. i've got some questions that i'd like to have answers to. what's the point of the shot clock? >> the shot clock is aspirational to begin with, but it's something we try to manage here. the difficulty in this situation was that we were hung up by a court proceeding and a court decision that itself took as long as the shot clock. and so we -- specifically dealt with the kind of information that we could have on the public record. and we had to get through that before we could get to the decision. >> well, on the 170th day of the 180-day shot clock, your agency stopped it for three months. >> because of the court

mr. chairman. and mr. secretary, i have to echo the comments of the chairman and the ranking member about the challenges that you and the department have faced in implementing your other dramatic change in policy in the 2014 agriculture. i think in most areas it's been fundamentally amazing how successful that has been. but like anything i have a few questions, the secretary and one of the things i'm curious about, the $100 million that was provided for the implementation of title one, due to the increased workload from arc and plc, loum of that money was used and, if you could, perhaps a follow-up is necessary, but provide the committee with a written breakdown of how that money was spent. can you touch on that mr. secretary? >> i can mr. -- well i -- >> by the way, your county office folks have worked very diligently to get all this done. they're good people. but they face some challenges out there. >> there's so many chaires and former chairs on this committee i'm probably going to -- >> exactly. >> cong

mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, ambassador sherman and undersecretary szubin for your work. i think ago. understands that a nuclear-armed iran threatens the united states, threatens israel, threatens the entire world. the question now before congress, and the only question before congress is whether nuclear agreement negotiated alongside other countries represents our best available option for preventing iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. i wonder if you can fool some of the pieces together and evaluate the options. what happens if we go forward with a steel versus what happened if we back out? let's start with the tough sanctions imposed by the united states with the cooperation of other countries around the world such as the uk, france, china, russia, germany, the eu. if we reject this do we need our international partners to continue the tough sanctions, refuse to trade with iran, block iran's access to the frozen assets in order to be effective. so ambassador sherman, if we walk away, do you be

mr. chairman. >> thank you dr. benishek. mr. walz of minnesota. >> thank you to the chairman and thank you all for being here today. and i too would like to hit on this, the osi implemented in minneapolis and we followed this closely since october of 2013 and we're getting the results but my colleagues, and i would associate with them and this is nothing new to you that we saw dramatic increases in calls after it was implemented which is somewhat expected but i think the lack of maybe being there or the alternative and i say this very clear, this issue of mental health parody, this mental health treatment is societywide. this is a first step on clay hunt. but it is a broader issue. and on the opioid issue this nation has vacillated to overprescribing and underprescribing as the research gets it. and so i hear that. and my concern and frustration and you hear frustration from veterans whether it be here or all of the time, this pain management thing is a tough one. tough, tough, tough. i represent the mayo clinic area so these are

mr. chairman. >> thank the gentleman. mr. bishop you are recognized. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you madam secretary for being here today. i appreciate your testimony and discussion. i know there are a dozen windows open right now. i want to talk about the exchange enrollment issues i'm seeing in my office. it is an ongoing concern with constituents and i want to make sure while i have your attention i address this concern. the government accountability office put out a report highlighting various shortcomings of healthcare.gov, which resulted in numerous fictitious enrollees gaining access to coverage and subsidies paid by the american taxpayers. in the meantime, as i've said i've heard from an even number of my constituents, one anecdote after the next, very frustrated with regard to how this is working. purchased or tried to purchase on the website insurance only to have their coverage canceled because of a minor mistake they made on their application. and by the time they get to me, they are furious. and i can't say that i blame them. as a parent who has a family and is

mr. chairman. >> senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to address my first questions to you, mr. szubin. with regard to sanctions, at this point the jcpoa has been approved -- submitted to the security council and approved by the security council of the united nations, correct? what impact does that approval have on the sanctions regimes, both the u.n. sanctions regimes and the sanctions of the united states? >> it has no impact on the sanctions of the united states whatsoever. with respect to the u.n. sanctions regimes, as i understand it, the endorsement by the u.n. security council sets out a timetable right in line with what ambassador sherman was describing where iranian performance, when verified, will lead to the lifting of u.n. sanctions. >> and that would be all of the u.n. sanctions on iran? >> no. what it would mean -- at implementation day, when iran has taken initial steps and key nuclear steps would mean that the economic sanctions would be relieved. the sanctions on their arms trade, the sanctions on their acquisit

mr. chairman. thank you, mr. chairman.nk you from the secretary burwell for your testimony and the department on so many issues health care precision medicine, mental health services. thank you for your work on early childhood education and support programs. i want to spend a short time talking about the older americans act which celebrated its 50th anniversary and i want to thank chairman kline and ranking member scott. they are committed to optimizing the oaa. thank you for calling up the issue of elder abuse and i want to emphasize physical abuse but also financial abuse. i have three questions and i think i will tell you what the three are to save time. the population is changing rapidly. what steps are you taking for community living programs as our older population is becoming increasingly diverse. secondly, when i talk about the older americans act they knew about the nutrition programs like meals on wheels. when of the population of seniors is expected to double by 2050 so we support investment than would yield gre

mr. chairman. mr. geiger, the expectation of privacy, talk about that, certainly no court cases in light of the question comes down to what is expected of the person. i guess when you have drones it really broadens the expectation, is that right? it kind of throws, it just opens the door to all kinds of surveillance. do you follow what i'm saying? >> i do. i believe this is how courts will interpret that in the future. right now the supreme court has interpreted the regional expectation of privacy doctrine do not include aerial surveillance from the publicly navigable airspace. i can only imagine that regional expectation of privacy standard or in common law torts would count as highly offensive to raise will persevere i will only imagine that will shrink as more and more ues take to the sky. this is one reason why we are arguing that current federal law does not provide adequate privacprivacy protection to we d not just rely on common law or the fourth amendment, the ought to be something in federal l

mr. chairman. good morning to the witnesses. thank you for being here. i, like so many of us, are very concerned about this deal not supportive of it whatsoever. the more i read of the deal the less i like it. that doesn't include the parts that i do not know about, the iaea side agreements. ambassador, you've said a couple of conflicting things this morning from my perspective. sitting here i can see your notebooks. i can't read what's in it. in the final deal from the iaea, have you seen it and read it? >> let me be very clear. i have seen the documents that the iaea and iran discussed to create the final arrangements for the modalities that underpin the road map the road map document being a public document that congress has a copy of. i was not allowed to keep any of the documents about the arrangements on the modalities that underpin the public road map that you have a copy of. however, i told the iaea that given our constitution, that if congress asked me to brief on the details that i unders

mr. chairman. i want to reiterate as well my appreciation for the hearing and for your work in this area over many years. and for chairman wyden's work and in particular his legislation on the family stability and kinship care act which focuses on prevention and get i getting a set of services to families long before or at least early in the process. i was struck by, for our first two witnesses, ms. killett and ms. burton both using the same word at some point in your testimony, traumatized and traumatic. which i know for some people might seem self-evident in terms of how difficult these issues are for families, but there are a lot of things we do on this committee that involve policy and data and numbers. but a few things that we've examined here have the same kind of human gravity to them. and severity. so we appreciate you bringing your own personal stories. it's not easy to do to talk about what you've been through. it's easier to talk about things when they're theoretical and policy-oriented.

mr. chairman. i appreciate you holding this hearing on the needs of drinking water systems in rural and smaller communities. like you and many other members of congress i represent a rural district where many of my constituents get their drinking water from smaller cities, towns and water associations. according to the national rural water association more than 90% of the community water systems across the united states serve a popular of less than 10,000 individuals. these smaller communities do an incredible job of providing our constituents with clean safe drinking water but are often at a disadvantage because of commission of scale and need for more technical expertise. i know this is an important issue to you, mr. chairman, and the ranking member and i thank you for its opportunity to continue working on legislation to ensure our constituents get the help and clean water they need. i'd like to say welcome to mr. newman, mr. selman and thank you to them for providing their insight to the subcom

mr. chairman, and first of all, mr. labonte, my deepest apologies for you and what i understand, and you understand, much more clearly is that veterans care is a zero sum proposition. if one veteran doesn't receive the care they're entitled to and the best quality then it's a failure. so your situation is unacceptable. the thing i encourage you on and as i looked into this, the tort issue. that's your recourse on this and they will always try throw barriers up, both in the private sector and in the public. but there are a lot of good folks out there that can help with that, so i would hope you could pursue that. >> well, the efficacy of the tort program is that the va essentially investigates themselves. i mean, their attorney acts as their investigator which is -- >> trust me, people win these, and what i'm saying is, if this was wrong, there are people out there to assist you. there are veteran attorneys that are veterans themselves, that their job is to try and help make this right. >> yes, but the va has a six-month

mr. chairman. in fact, we won a victory because the -- we have seven nations negotiating and three of the seven thought the sanctions ought to be lifted immediately, iran russia and china and four thought they shouldn't. what we succeeded in doing was keeping both the arms embargo and the missile component, the missiles for eight years and the arms for five years, not withstanding the fact that iran has a very legitimate argument which they were making that the u.n. resolution 1929 which is what created the sanctions and the structure that we were negotiating under said that if iran comes to the table and negotiates, all the sanctions would be lifted. now, they just didn't come to the table and negotiate, they made a deal, they signed an agreement and came to an overall agreement, so they felt that they were in compliance with the u.n. resolution and we felt on the other hand, their behavior in the region was such it would be unconscionable to lift, and we don't feel we lost anything in that, mr. c

mr. chairman. mr. chairman, before getting started irwould ask unanimous consent to have two letters inserted into the record. the first one addressed to members of the house, and dated april 28. signed by nearly 400 stakeholders, including the national federation of farm bureaus and the state farm bureaus from alaska to florida. it is worth noting the vermont farm bureau is one of the signers. the letter expresses the support of the 400 signers for hr1599. i offer this letter. >> without objection so or thed. >> the second one addressed to mr. pompeo and me and dated april 16, 2015, is from 29 biotechnology industry stakeholdded and state biotech associationment, including the north carolina biosigns organization and the new jersey association,he let expressions again support for 1599. i offer this letter. >> without objection so ordered. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i apologize for being in and out but we're multitasking today and i think you forward that. thank you for being here today and l

mr. chairman. >> thank you. mr.sh, you're now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, and i'm going to venture out on a limb. welch, yd for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i'm going to venture out on a limb. i bet you get a call from the secretary now. you might back me on that. and it goes to something bigger on me. i would go back to secretary shinseki and others, they are led to those around them and it is the core issue of delegation of authority and in a delegation this big this has to happen. and in this training, i want to talk about how to change it and make it better and talk about 230 tc. and i bet somebody has gone through professional training whether it was a friday afternoon or in our professional careers you can count and tell those who were effective and those that were forgettable. this is an important issue. have either of you, dr. cooker and head and tremain, have you received 230 tc whistleblower notification training. >> i have not, i have not. >> no. >> don't you wish those thr

mr. chairman. as shown in table two and page 10 of our report the net reimbursement to the county would be 119,443. we recommend that you approve this resolution. >> okay. thank you mr. rose. seeing no other comments i will move this on to public comment. anyone wish to comment on item 5? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> thank you. >> thank you. colleagues do we have a motion to send it forward. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang and take without objection. madam clerk can you call item 6. >> item 6 is approval of bookstore lease - books inc. and the city and for a five-year term with two one-year options for 575,000 during the first year of the lease. >> thank you. >> thank you. cathy wagner with the san francisco international airport. item number 6 seeks the approval for a new lease with books inc. for a book store comprised of the square footage listed in the airport and has a term through june 2020 and two one year options to extend and minimum annual guarantee rent

mr. chairman. >> senator bennet. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you very much to you and the ranking member for holding this hearing. it strikes me listening to the it em that we've been victimized by two things, one, a generation that has not experienced these diseases because of vaccines and have lost sight of what they look like, and interestingly to dr. sawyer's point the unedited content on the internet that people, you know, more affluent families i guess are reading. i wonder, dr. sawyer and then i would ask the other panelists -- let me also say, dr. jacks, thank you for your testimony i hope maggie is having a chance at least to watch you while you're doing this or maybe doing something more interesting at home but thanks for being here. dr. sawyer, could you use this opportunity to tell us what the biggest falsehoods are that are being trafficked on the internet and what the answers to those falsehoods are? and the other panelists would like to join in that would be great as well. >> as has been mentioned here several times today,

mr. chairman. and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. my name is k.t. newman and i have been working for or in small and rural community water systems in the mississippi delta for nearly 20 years. i first started out as a small city water manager in my hometown of vaton, mississippi which has about 1,000 homes. i then worked for the mississippi rural water association as a circuit rider for ten years. in this capacity i visited every one of the delta's approximately 500 small communities to help them with their water and sewer problems. currently i am working for about two dozen small delta communities assisting them with their water and sewer utilities. i am honored to be accompanied here today by the mayor of one of these small towns, mayor everett hill from co mow, mississippi. the town of co mow has a population of approximately 1,200 persons. the mayor's challenges are compounded by the fact that as a small town mayor he has a full time job as a tr

mr. chairman. >> gentleman yields back. mr. barletta, you are recognized for four minutes. >> secretary burwell, my district is home to businesses that sell cigars to adult consumers. they are concerned about the expansion of the fda's regulatory authority under the tobacco control act. their shop serves a distinctly adult clientele. i don't believe this category was the intent of congress in 2009 when the law was passed. can you tell the committee what steps you are making to ensure such businesses which are a staple of main street america are not regulated out of business? >> with regard to -- right now as we are in the middle of a rule making process i think you probably know that we actually proposed two different alternatives as part of the rule. to gather the evidence and information with regard to the question of premium cigars and how they are or are not sold to children. that was a part of what we are trying to do. and we are reviewing that. and we are in the middle of that process now. having said that, as we are in t

mr. chairman. thank you for being here, mr. secretary. this administration, the president specifically called isis famously the jv team. that clearly wasn't true. this administration cited yemen as the model approach to u.s. countertimp. and that was shortly before yemen's near total collapse in the chaos. so that wasn't true, either. president obama declared al qaeda to be decimated, on the run, broken apart, on their heels, very weak and those are all quotes, by the way. now, that may be wishful thinking, but it certainly wasn't true and isn't true. why should the american people trust the administration now on this deal? >> we're not asking them to trust. we're asking them to read the deal and look at the components. as i've said many times nothing in this deal is built on trust. nothing. the it is on very specific steps that have to be taken. for instance iran gets zero relief from the sanctions until iran has implement eded one year breakout time by taking out the centrifuges, undoing their electrical, undoing the piping. they have t

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. mr. puritz, in both your spoken testimony and your written testimony, you refer to something called a brokerage refugee. i think that someone who fled a brokerage and had a bad experience, i guess, right? okay. it was mentioned in your written testimony, a married 37-year-old mother of three who was paying excessive fees, was recommended by a broker she inherited from her family. how do the services you provide and the fees you charge under your duty as a fiduciary differ from those that this woman experienced with her inherited broker? what does that mean for retirement investors' nest egg? or their ability to retire after, say, 30 years of working and saving. >> [ inaudible ]. >> she literally means raising the microphone to your lips or to your mouth -- not to your lips, but -- >> how is that? >> you can turn the light on. >> push the button. >> thank you. >> there you go. >> there we go. >> senator, thank you. that's an excellent question and really gets to the heart of this matter fr

mr. chairman. thank you, sir. secretary johnson, a report from the national academy of sciences places an estimate of 1$1 trillion to $2 trillion to the societal and economic costs of a severe geomagnetic storm scenario with a recovery time of four to ten years. another report from lloyds of london stated between 20 and 40 million people in america are at risk of extended outages for up to one to two years in duration. i can read excerpts of 11 major government reports that all share a very similar finding. and yet the federal government has really done next to nothing to help protect the electric grid. and so i just would remind you that last year, you testified that it was the main responsibility of the national programs and protections directorate, or the nppd along with the homeland security along with the relevant agencies to protect the electric grid. i would like to ask you what is being done today at dhs to protect the grid from geomagnetic disturbance or from weaponized electromagnetic puls

mr. chairman. >> the chair recognizes mr. carter. >> thank you mr. chairman. admiral, welcome. i in no way speak for all members of this committee but for myself and i suspect the committee members would agree with this we wish you success. we want to see you succeed and do everything we can to help you. i want to touch quickly on two things first understand i represent the entire coast of georgia. on the coast we have two major ports, we have to the savannah outport which is the number 2 container port on the eastern seaboard and brunswick port which is the number 2 porche in the nation. both of those ports are vitally important. in both of those ports we use the transportation workers identification credentials. i want to talk briefly about that very quickly. i would like to read to use examples of situations that have occurred with quicks cards that i am concerned about. and individual using netflix card to gain access, kill the naval officer. and individual who threatened to detonate a bomb demonstrating a terrorist could do the same and the ineffectiveness of the twix prog

mr. chairman. thank you mr. chairman, mr. grain, very much appreciate the imitation to testify before you this morning on behalf of the information technology and innovation foundation, the safety and appropriate labeling for crops and foods in fruits or biotechnology. we are a nonpartisan research and educational think tank whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to to advance technological innovation and productivity. the focus on integration issues. we have long been involved in the conversations about agricultural biotechnology and how best to ensure its widely shared benefits to humans and the environment are not burdened by ill-considered policies especially those based on fear and misunderstanding. i very much appreciate the opportunity to comment on these issues today and think of particular mr. pompeo for proposing this legislation which i think is approaching perfection as a solution to some of the problems we have hasten this area of public policy. introduction of crops often called gmos has been

mr. chairman, for mr. levitt. you describe in your testimony that major secondary bank sanctions will be retained under the agreement. you note that's a good thing. if congress does not reject the deal, are there ways the treasury should be using these bank sanctions in a morrow bust way to mitigate the problems you've identified with the deal? >> thank you for the question. the secondary sanctions, as we've all said, are very, very powerful. secondary sanctions would remain on nonwd. the kicker, they're not everything. it's never been a case that a particular bank was only involved in proliferation or terrorism? it's going to be difficult to get the intelligence sometimes to be able to show an entity is engaged in activities relating just to terrorism. then a question of political will as mark said, if you have something like the central bank of iran, will there be the will to put forward sanctions on those types of major entities or even smaller ones if we think that might annoy the iranians. it will deter major

mr. chairman. i want to take note of the fact that you, mr. chairman has spent decades, literally decades keeping child welfare issues bipartisan here in the united states senate and i commend you for that, look forward to building on the partnership. i know becky shipp has here and has carried the torch for many years as well and once again the finance committee can work in a bipartisan area on this issue. mr. chairman and collects chairman and colleagues, this morning in america there's likely a single mom with two kids, multiple part-time jobs and one really big worry. she works long hours to provide for her family but even then it is a struggle to pay the bills and keep food on the table and because her work schedule changes week to week, she is forced to leave her children unattended at times. a neighbor might place a concerned call to child services. once that happens, social workers have to choose between two not very good options, breaking up the family or doing nothing at all to help and th

mr. chairman. in 2008, the bush administration failed to heed the unanimous recommendations of aircommittee, of the clean ,cientific advisory committee lowering the ozone quality standards. under president bush set the standard at 75 pbb. xt 270 -- 60 270 would be more protective of public health -- 6 70 would be more protective of public health. the obama administration also refused to consider the standard until order to do so by the by a lawsuitear brought by environmental and public health groups. , let's ask the question, mr. chairman. why is this rule so very why is it so important for epa to act? we know there are serious health effects caused by the ozone and the epa proposal will improve in quality and result significant public health benefits. children, the elderly, and diseasesth respiratory such as asthma will be impacted directly by this room. -- by this rule. the epa estimates there are currently 25.9 million people in the u.s. with asthma, including 7.1 million children, and, mr. my

mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. aises some pretty fundamental questions about the future of and values and parts of our philosophy we thought were settled. i think mr. geiger, you're quite right to raise the flag and what does privacy mean as we move toward the future? even a commercial drone whose mission is purely delivery of a good could be equipped with surveillance equipment and, actually penetrate the walls of a house and look into what's going on. technology isn't far away from being able to do that. i'm not arguing anyone would do that but we're going to, the proliferation of drones will make it very difficult to enforce even those regulations we ultimately adopt. so, it is a fascinating frontier kind of issue for us. i don't think we have easy answers yet. i think so much for helping highlight them. mr. whitaker, i was listening to miss lawrence. before i ask mr. misener some questions about amazon, and their operation i'm what is, if i'm a homeowner, how high up do i go in my property control? can someone f

mr. chairman. mr. chairman, mr. shuman, thank you for being here and for your very important public service. a witness we will hear from the second panel, four who work in the bush administration, terrorist finance and middle east policy. this whole process began in the bush administration with a republican president who was in the wake of the iraq war willing to engage iran diplomatically. as secretary kerry observed the bush administration laid the foundation for the iran agreement, sanctions relief and strict limits on the nuclear program. in june 2008, president bush's national security advisor signed a memorandum with the p5 plus one, which is said that in return for iran doing key things to limit its maker program, the united states was ready to do a number of things. one, to recognize iran's right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. two, treat iran for the nuclear program like any other non-nuclear weapons state to the npt with international confidence that the peaceful nature of the program to be restor

mr. chairman.ck, roll 212. >> you know, i'm kind of sick and tired of, you know, the left and democrats in this country when they get into trouble and don't get their way and backs are up against the wall on legislation or whatever it is they're trying to do they go to that card. they play that race card, that slavery card, that civil rights card. >> jon: chairman michael steele, isn't that hypocritical? you, sir, attacking democrats for using the race card when you yourself use it, sir! is that not hypocritical, sir? mr. chairman? ♪ push it... ♪ >> jon: oh, that's somebody's phone. is that your phone or mine? >> jon: it's not my phone, my ring tone isn't "push it." >> i guess that's me. you got the steele! what's that? right now? i have to go now? in the middle of my interview with john bailey? (laughter) all right. hibbledy bibbledy! >> jon: michael steele everybody, we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) aah, the majestic hermit crab. they mate once in a lifetime. and he who has the most uni

mr. chairman. thank you to the ranking member for holding this hearing precision medicine is extremely exciting. those of us in minnesota thank you, dr. collins because mayo and the university of minnesota have been doing a genomics project funded by you. very smart on your part. this is an exciting because there's been a paradigm shift in the way we think of health care in this country and in some part due to the health care reform law and health care providers and insurers are moving more towards person centered care and i'm talking about coordinated care, medical homes, acos that provide incentives and information that help doctors tailor their practice, their treatments and their therapies to meet the needs of individual patients. and that's of course what precision medicine is all about, making sure the right patient gets the right treatment. the right treatment doesn't -- as you were saying, dr. collins, doesn't necessarily mean it isn't treating people when they are sick. it's about health c

mr. chairman. i think the weakest part of the opinion is when it deals with the appropriations language. section 218. i think that was clear and i think the discussion of the olc opinion -- that is probably the weakest part. to make it clear, did you have language at various parts of the olc opinion, i believe on page 46 or so, it talks about notwithstanding language. inventions that a number of places. onpage, i think it begins page 45, but mainly on page 46. it talks about other statutes that would not apply because it has language saying notwithstanding any other law or notwithstanding any statutory prohibition on disclosure, etc. etc. and then at the end, it talks about a clear statement being clear, manifest, and unequivocal. and i think any sort of fixed would have to be clear, manifest, and unequivocal. i think that is on page 56. 57 of the opinion, first full paragraph. problem with saying notwithstanding any other law is -- you run into this problem that you mentioned, mr. chairman, that t

mr. chairman. especially to mr. zarate and ambassador burns, thank you for the work he did and i think neither u2 nor secretary clinton press secretary kerry or president obama or bush get the credit for weaving together these countries, the p5+1 against all odds holding them together in the sanctions in historical context and the difficult diplomatic maneuvers and accomplishments he made we should all thank you or. ambassador burns you said a number of things. do not see a more realistic alternative that would give the u.s. a greater probability at this point that preventing an iranian nuclear weapon. if congress rejects the agreement, you mentioned the global coalition with weekend sanctions and shackles on iran undoubtedly send. talk to us what would happen if we reject this and especially in light of what our p5+1 allies with you what their reaction would eat and what about other countries in europe and asia notably japan and india and italy with their reactions might be. >> thank you, senator.

mr. chairman. >> i would like to address my first questions to you, mr. szubin with regard to sanctions. has beenoint the jcpoa approved and submitted to the security council of the united nations, correct? what effect does that approval have on the sanctions regimes, both u.s. and u.n.? sec. szubin: it has no impact on the sanctions of the u.s. whatsoever. with respect to the u.n. sanctions regime, as i understand it, the endorsement by the un security council sets out a timetable in line with what ambassador sherman was describing, where iranian performance, when a verified, will lead to a listing of sanctions. that would lead to all of sections on iran? when enron has taken its initial steps in all of those key steps -- when iran has taken those initial steps. the sanctions on their arms trade and acquisitions of ballistic missile knology remain in place for many years to come under the u.n.. >> in your opening statement, you made a point that it would be very hard for the u.s. to back out of the agreement that it has reached and then reimpose sanction

mr. chairman. program has been in existence for one year and as such we don't have the kind of statistical data that lets a seattle does. seattle has shown that in the program, the santa fe is modeled after, the recidivism is -- let me just, i want to make sure i have the correct number for you. it's that -- let me see, i had marked here for you. i'm sorry, sir. it would be 80% less. >> it's 80% less than recidivism rate before the program started in seattle? >> correct. >> let me say that they think this is probably the most important thing that we ought to look at. because as demand goes down, the profits that are made -- as the demand goes down, the profits that are made by the dealers go down as well. we can talk about saving lives and giving people hope. in my home community in southeastern wisconsin we've had a rash of deaths as a result of heroin overdose. attorney general of wisconsin last week convened a task force to try to deal with this both from law enforcement as well as a treatment a

mr. chairman. i wanted to go on and just ask mr. chairman for unanimous consent that the cbo scores show the repeal of the affordable care act that would be entered into the record. thank you, madam secretary, for your service, and joining us today. you mentioned nih earlier. i know that you care deeply that we continue to fund this at higher rates. we absolutely cannot fall behind the global community in how we address science and innovation. i think that's very, very important and i'm pleased that the president has increased that funding. but i also wanted to talk about not just the innovation piece of it, but really the access piece, and affordability. and particularly focus on the changes that you have recommended in reforming medicare part "d." specifically, in ways that you call for in the budget request in terms of reducing medicare costs, both for the government and the consumer, and looking at the question of giving authority to you, and to the department to negotiate drug prices. in medicare part "d." can you talk a little

mr. chairman. sen. warren: thank you, mr. chairman, thank you, undersecretary szubin, and ambassador for your work. i think everyone understands that a nuclear-armed iran threatens the united states, threatens israel, threatens the entire world. the only question before congress is whether the nuclear agreement negotiated alongside other countries represents our best available option for preventing iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. i'm wondering if you can pull these pieces together and evaluate the option. what happens if we go forward with a deal versus if we back out? let's start with the tough sanctions imposed by the united states with the cooperation of other countries around the world, such as the u.k., france, china, germany, the eu. if we reject this deal, we need our international partners to continue the tough sanctions, block iran's access in order to be effective. ambassador sherman, if we walk away, do you believe that all the other nations that have endorsed this deal are likely to continue working with us t

mr. chairman. >> mr. davis, please, the list that i gave you because right now i'm people stronghold. >> working sharing with mr. jefferson. >> that lady that is on the back, name is barbara jackson she is the residents counsel person, for all these people, she is a very important person, to contact. she can put you in touch with a lot of others. >> i hope when you leave you will come to back share with us if you have film other things you want to share with us. >> i wasn't able to get my film developed but i'm going to send it back. >> so we can least get it make it part of the record thank you all, mr. williams thank good to have you in washington thanks, thank you all we'll take a 3 minute reseas we move to the last panel. >> thanks to plis jenny in houston, texas for opts praiting relief out of her home, to hurricane victims. >> thank you. you will get the last word. >> saturday, august 29 marks the 10th anniversary of katrina. twoght at 8:00, c-span's thousand six of hurricane damage and recovery at

mr. chairman. last week the l.a. times reported that the iran foreign ministers told the parliament that under the deal that they can deny inspectors access to military sites and the defense ministers has stated that he would not allow inspectors to enter military sites but president obama stated quote, inspectors could access any suspicious location, put simply, the organization responsible for the inspections, the iaea, will have access where necessary, when necessary. end quote. can the iaea really have access to all military sites suspected of housing nuclear activity and does the agency need preapproval from iran to access these sites? and the whole point of sanctions, mr. secretary, was not to bring iran to the negotiation table and dismantling the iran nuclear infrastructure used to be the administration's goal. the administration repeatedly told us it would focus sanctions only on the nuclear portfolio yet in the deal we have 60 pages of individuals, companies, vessels that will be de-listed, specifically men

mr. chairman. and thank you, madam secretary for your testimony. the president helped to law mandates certain employers provide health care coverage to their employees and those in text employers to take a much is generous. section 1511 of the health care long requires imposed automatically enrolled employees and continued enrolling current employees into the health care coverage. given employers on a very small window to choose to opt out. this mandate takes away the ability for employers to choose coverage that best meets their needs and could result in the lost update company to cover possibly more expensive health insurance than they otherwise would not have chosen. i've introduced h.r. 3112, to be open to eliminate this harmful and unnecessary provision. could she discuss whether mandatory auto enrollment can took individual mandate penalty for employers receiving subsidized exchange coverage? >> with regard to the specific about application issue that isn'tthat isan issue i would defer to mca

mr. chairman, thank you welcome mr. nibi i touched on his extremely important work on differential response, and trying to make sure that wont a one size fits all approach for helping these youngsters and he's been doing it for the oregon department for the human services for the past 13 years from caseworker to supervisor, and now it will be fair to say that chuck implements the strategy that people are looking prior to working for the youth authority. and mr. chairman, i won't filibuster here but we have got three oregon connection on the panel. i'm not only -- chuck but is donna butts we just mentioned showing my age, i remember jack and his good work with roots in oregon and burton is a transplant to oregon for the summer, so we kind of run the tables. by the end of the day over there. thank you mr. chairman. >> last but certainly not least i'm pleased to note that we'll hear from executive director of my states, utah's department of human service its mr. williamson graduated from college in south carolina with a ba

mr. chairman. and he never bothered her again. martha griffiths, a power in her own right, said of julia hansen that she knew how to exercise power better than any woman she had ever seen in legislature. coming from martha that's high praise. here we have a campaign postcard of martha griffiths, one of the influential members from the 1950s into the 1970s. she represented a michigan district. like some of the earlier women here like julia butler hansen, she has a lot of experience before she ever comes to congress. she's a lawyer. she serves as a judge in michigan. she elected to the house in 1954. she comes in in 1955. she, too, she quickly moves into positions of influence. after a number of women in congress had campaigned with the speaker, to get a seat on the exclusive ways and means committee, the tax committee. from that position she weighs in on a lot of issues affecting women monetarily. but she is probably best known as the mother of the equal rights amendment. every year she reintroduced the equal rights amendment. whic