mr. kaine: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to ten minutes recognizing that it's after 12:30. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. kaine: thank you, mr. president. in november 2013, the united states and five global powers, the p-5 plus 1 announced an interim deal to freeze iran's nuclear program and negotiate a diplomatic resolution to one of the most challenging issues affecting global security. since then, as a member of the senate armed services and foreign relations committees, i participated in scores of hearings classified briefings meetings and calls about this topic in virginia, washington, and during five trips to the middle east, including two trips to israel. i've listened to the administration to allies and -- in the middle east and elsewhere, to current and former senate colleagues, especially former armed services chairman john warner and carl levin to national security and foreign policy experts to critics and proponents of the deal,

mr. chairman. >> 's senator kaine. >> i appreciate the chairman o. allowing me to ask an additional 15 questions. i don't have any questions. i want to thank our witnesses that this has been eliminating and i think we can make a real difference here and help in the public be more aware. i love the idea of having an automatic response that goes to consumers who file complaints and tells them it is helpful to them. that would help them feel it was worthwhile even if it does not not -- if you are not responding to their specific complaint. people like to feel they make a difference and this panel has certainly made a difference. this hearing is about to adjourn if i could find my closing statement which tells you how long the record is to be open. and i have it. i want to thank all of our witnesses and as you can see there's a great deal of interest in the hearing today by our excellent attendance the committee members will have until friday, june 9th team to submit any additional questions for the record or testimony. i want to thank both the majority

mr. godwin: as senator kaine knows, we have a high percentage of veterans in virginia. it benefits the older populations as well. sen. collins: thank you. senator kaine. sen. kaine: welcome from our hometown. i came to the hearing really thinking about the work needs of older workers and what i found myself thinking in your testimony, this question of flexibility for workers -- mr. godwin, your testimony is about your particular industry. it is not just for older workers. in the health care field it was dominated by women workers, the schedules that were appropriately flexed for family needs. you guys may have been culturally a pioneer of some of the flexible work arrangements, and yet, that really does seem to be a broader trend for older workers. my dad sold his manufacturing business and decided he wanted to be a volunteer for a local catholic charities organization and volunteer one or two days a week, and they said "we want to hire you." "i don't want to be hired, i want more flexibility." they struck a deal with flexibility every week in terms of how many days he

kaine: what is the water to things we can do to help you? mr. dandurand: there is a no call working group that we have right now. they stay abreast of all live the cutting edge things that are available to use. receive,that we can senator mccaskill's bill that she is looking at but i have not seen it, but hopefully that will help with this, those things will be helpful. but i have to give credit, as i can, to the feds to all of the assistance they give to the states as it is. ms.tor donnelly: blase, you are a tireless bulldog on this issue. as you look at this, one of the as my that has struck me caller id comes up and displays fbi. that means so many things to people in our country. when you saw that, how did you know that was a scam? ms. blase: i did know what i saw fbi. the phone and answered the call, and did not take my 15th two got into the camp because -- the because demands that we are conducting an investigation and your name popped up. i said why would my name problem in a drug investigation? i called him a fraud and hung up. and then

mr. godwin: as senator casey knows, we have -- senator kaine knows, we have a high percentage of veterans in virginia. it benefits the older appellations as well. sen. collins: thank you. senator kaine. sen. kaine: welcome from our hometown. i came to the hearing really thinking about the work needs of older workers and what i found myself thinking in your testimony, this question of flexibility for workers -- mr. is aboutour testimony your particular industry. it is not just for older workers. in the health care field it was dominated by women workers, the schedules that were appropriately flexed for family needs. you guys may have been culturally a pioneer of some of the flexible work arrangements, and yet, that really does seem to be a broader trend for older workers. manufacturings business and decided he wanted to be a volunteer for a local catholic charities organization and volunteer one or two days a week, and they said "we want to hire you." "i don't want to be hired, i want more flexibly." they struck a deal with flexibility every week in terms of how many days he works. my dad

kaine is great. it is great to have him. erik: absolutely, you should make a guest appearance. tom: we have mr. gross and jim glassman.ll you look for? --er you told the program president, i cannot do it, you are in the white house, what do you look for? what will be the item to date that matters? alan: i tended to take a longer heizon, not so much -- started posting five takeaways from the report, about an hour after the report, i find it informative. he put in there every month, the 12 month change, it smooths out the fluctuation. when i was working for the president, we were having ups and downs month to month, if you look at the 12 month picture, it was pretty smooth. it gives you a good read on where the economy is going. vonnie: talking about here too. lending. p --eer to peer lending. vonnie: they are not taking the credit creation out of the banking system, they are intermediaries. -- they arey are raising money directly from investors and those investors are using that equity to create loans voia peer-to-peer lenders. lending club is an intermediary. brendan: the banks are interested in this. do you see this

kaine. >> thank you for filibustering a bit until i got there. this was deeply important to me and i was in it an armed services hearing. and particularly i wanted to thank mr and ms. smith. thank you so much for doing the work that you are doing to really educate and demonstrate the challenges of early onset alzheimer's. it's such a difficult thing. and obviously in the midst of a difficult thing to try to help others islaudable. so i want to express my appreciation to you for that. this is an issue i'm dealing with in my own family and it's new and hard to figure out. and the challenge for family members and caregivers, it's a hard thing. so can i just begin by xresing my graduate to you for being courageous and hopefully educate others for this. >> thank you very much, senator. you know, we're hear because we've been foreign ttunate and d with some of the fruits of this great country of ours. and when you start to get involved and give back and you see people struggling and you see single head of households who don't have anyone, any resources, and they're dependent totally upon the system. and you see how they're falling through the cracks. you realize

mr. kaine: mr. president we're about to start our traditional august recess. congress is an interesting place because we not only get a recess a vacation, as many americans do, but we're legally required to take one. that's right. my an act of congress, congress is required, absent a separate agreement, to take a month off during august. i learned that just yesterday during a great presentation from one of our senate historians, kate scott. this mandated august adjournment is part of the legislative reorganization act of 1970, and the act provides that in odd-numbered years the house is adjourned from the first friday in august until the tuesday after labor day. mr. president, there is an exception the mandated recess -- quote -- shall not be applicable if on july 31 of such year a state of war exists pursuant to a declaration of war by congress. again, the mandated recess is not applicable if on july 31 of such year, a state of war exists pursuant to a declaration of war by congress. this provision makes basic sense, doesn't it? congress shouldn't go out for