mr. sherman: i understand. ambassador nuland: with regard to your concern about a race all along the southern rim of ukrainian territory, not only a land bridge to crimea but onward to moldova, we worry about that, too. that is why we are paying such close attention today to these villages between the seas fire line -- mr. sherman: if you could focus on the question i asked. ambassador nuland: with regard to what one can buy on the international market, a number of the things that the ukrainians have requested are not readily available unless the u.s. were to license onward export, and we have a number of countries, including our allies -- mr. sherman: we are just talking anti-tank weapons. i see those in world war ii movies. ambassador nuland: they have also been out shopping on the world market and have had a lot of difficulty getting countries to provide in the absence of the u.s. providing. mr. sherman: yet our enemies turn money into weapons with great ease. you mentioned the importance of -- if we could h

mr. sherman. >> thank you. i know we'll get into it in closed session but i'll reiterate that i'm confused. on the one hand we tout the failure of isis to provide governance. their inability to provide for the people under their control. then at the same time, the iraqi government helps them provide governance with free electricity, setting salaries, et cetera. but what i want to deal with in open session is whether the aumf should include assad, or whether it should be limited to isis. now in the absence of isis, and before the beheadings, this country wanted to have as little military involvement in the middle east as possible. now americans see this as a problem that we have to confront but we have to confront it carefully. on the one hand we have to go after isis for what they've done. on the other hand there is this war between shiites and sunnis and it is not our role to be on one side of that or the other. the most evil element of the shiite alliance is assad. he hasn't beheaded anybody on youtube, but h

mr. gary sherman of our capital markets subcommittee. >> the administration follows the law. mr.secretary have been in government for most of her professional career. he spent from 1,922,010 as deputy of state for resources and that serves as the chief operating officer for the department and the principle adviser to the secretary on supervision and direction of resource allocation and management activities of the department. you were the department's chief operating officer during that period of time under secretary clinton responsible for devising on resource allocation. while you are the state were you also responsible for enforcing the department's policies regarding the use of personal e-mail accounts and record retention and if not who was responsible? >> congressmen i was in the states during during that period and responsible for a vast array of responsibilities in terms of managing the department. >> were you responsible for the enforcement policy regarding e-mail's? >> that were called having any conversations that i remember. >> said lewis was lockable? >> i would have

mr. gary sherman of our capital markets subcommittee. >> the administration follows the law. mr. secretary have been in government for most of her professional career. he spent from september 9,2010 as deputy of state for resources and that serves as the chief operating officer for the department and the principle adviser to the secretary on supervision and direction of resource allocation and management activities of the department. you were the department's chief operating officer during that period of time under secretary clinton responsible for devising on resource allocation. while you are the state were you also responsible for enforcing the department's policies regarding the use of personal e-mail accounts and record retention and if not who was responsible? >> congressmen i was in the states during during that period and responsible for a vast array of responsibilities in terms of managing the department. >> were you responsible for the enforcement policy regarding e-mail's? >> that were called having any conversations that i remember. >> said lewis was lockable? >> i wo

mr. sherman, this is one of the areas where i have to admit that i am most disappointed.his was one of the first subjects that i testified before congress on almost a decade ago about the problem that exists and has since continued to grow. congress did in power the irs to take actions to address this by forming agreements with various states and federal penitentiary correctional organizations. and they have -- they didn't some point take positive steps in doing so. some of those expired. others fell by the wayside. but this is a multibillion-dollar problem. it is still going on. and a lot of these individuals have so much time on their hands, and in all candor, have nothing left to you lose, that they're not going to stop. until something more tangible is done meaning further prosecutions or more authority or the irs somehow feeling the pinch of they don't tech -- take action with data information sharing programs and the like. this problem will continue to grow. it will metastasize. >> i red the ig report talking about this, and one of the recommendation was i think the

mr. sherman, and i disagree on so much. but i know him to be an honorable man. and he understands iran doesn't care about breaking deals. any deal with iran is like a deal with hitler. soviet union thought they could cut a deal with hitler. the thing that their leaders were most mad about is that hitler breeched the agreement before they -- breached the agreement before they did because they had intentions apparently of breaching it. so we're somewhere between neville chamberlain and stalin in trying to reach a deal with a modern-day hitler except hitler didn't have some crazy religious idea that he should wipe out everybody in the world that didn't have the exact same religious beliefs that he did. look, we're on the side of right. presidential cissy in egypt's on the side of right. saudi arabia u.a.e., all over the middle east they're becoming afraid because this administration is on the virge of cutting a deal that will allow iran to continue moving forward, to not just one nuke, but many nukes and a breakout could be a matter of weeks. i know people are talk

mr. sherman -- representative sherman: we should remember why where in the situation. the executive branch under the bush administration refused to enforce sanctions and violated american statutes for the benefit of iran for eight continuous years. the bush administration prevented congress from passing and used all of its power in congress to prevent us passing new statutory sanctions. now, that doesn't fit with the image we have of president bush until you realize that at the time the sanctions all focused on international oil companies which was not president bush's target of choice. had we continued president bush's policies, -- we should know that during the bush administration, iran went from zero to 5000 installed centrifuges. had we continued as policies iran would have $300 billion more available to it in cash right now because we have frozen $100 billion and $200 billion has been lost to iran and lost oil sales. but congress had it right for the last 15 years, which is why take such offense when i hear the administration say congress, if we have a view, we're

mr. sherman. first of all, i tend to believe that the israeli prime minister is right on iran.y will have nuclear weapons underneath this administration. it might be 10 years down the line, but you know the plan is. americans have been left out of it. we do not know what is going on. another thing -- this has been the least trusted president in my 45 years. i can give you 20 reasons right now, but i will give you one. we debated health care for two years. it had only been delayed it -- debated for a month if we were told that it was going to be taxes. everyone knows that and mr. obama knew that. it was just put on us and delay tactics. people i've talked to -- we are not ready for another lawyer. another thing real quick -- my question is iran, are they on the terrorist watch list? are they a terrorist sponsored state? thank you, c-span. guest: iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism. they have done more in the government to sponsor terrorist activities in south america tuchman north america -- south america, north america, the middle east, and europe. as to the obama

mr. brad sherman of california. >> i have a lot of questions for which i'd just like a response in writingnd i'll end with one i'd like an oral response. >> i had hoped to encourage dialogue. >> it had the opposite effect, mr. chairman. >> i'm responding to the chairman's policies. >> i'm happy to listen to an hour worth of questions and not respond. >> i want to commend you for the action regarding ebola and want to be one of the first to commend you for the administration's approach to iraq and syria. . we kept chemical weapons out of the area. otherwise they would be in isis' hands and we repelled the tax on the haditha dam, mosul dam and baghdad, all without u.s. combat casualties. a lot of people throw out other ideas. maybe they would have made things better and things would have been worse. than any other strategy could have. as to the partnership, you say it shouldn't be a race to the bottom. but vietnam is 30 cents an hour. that is the bottom. and we're told that we're going to get free access to the markets of vietnam, but they don't have freedom and they don't have markets. they

mr. brad sherman of california. >> we should remember why we're in this situation. the executive branch under the bush administration refused to enforce sanctions and violated american statutes for the benefit of iran for eight continuous years. the bush administration prevented congress from passing and used all of its power in congress to prevent us passing new statutory sanctions. now, that doesn't fit with the image we have of president bush until you realize that at the time the sanctions all focused on international oil companies which was not president bush's target of choice. had we continued president bush's policies, -- we should know that during the bush administration, iran went from zero to 5,000 installed sentry fumings. had we continued those policies iran would have $300 billion more available to it in cash right now because we have frozen 100 billion and 200 bill has been lost to iran in lost oil sales but it is not the executive branch but congress had i it right for the last 15 years, which is why i talk such offense when i hear the administration

mr. sherman. the gentleman from colorado. >> his excellency benjamin netanyahu into the house chamber.he senator from kentucky, the senator from south dakota, the settlements -- the gentleman -- the senator from wyoming. the senator from tennessee. the senator from illinois. the senator from new york. the senator from new jersey, mr. menendez, and the senator for maryland. speaker boehner: the members of the committee who elect the chamber through the lobby doors. >> mr. speaker, the acting theme of the diplomatic court. [applause] [indiscernible talking] [indiscernible talking] >> the prime minister of israel. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] speaker boehner: members of congress, i had the distinct honor of introducing to you his excellency, benjamin netanyahu. [applause] prime minister netanyahu: speaker of the house, john boehner, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, house minority leader nancy pelosi, and house majority leader mccarthy. i also want to acknowledge senator democratic leader harry reid. harry reid, it is good to see you back on your feet. [applause] it i

mr. sherman: and hopefully electing your own governor would be part of that because our friends in kiev need to help them 70's, not just ask for our help and they could help themselves a lot by countering that russian propaganda. i yield back. >> we go to mr. critz smith of new jersey -- mr. cris smith of new jersey. mr. smith: i believe delay is denial and i believe we have a de facto defensive weapons arms embargo on ukraine. and it's reminiscent to me to the balkans war when we totally misguided fashion ensured that bosnia and the croatians did not have the ability to defend themselves against any lohse vits' aggression and now we see that aggression to our good friend and ally the ukraine. when you get to secretary of defense carter, james clapper and as one of my colleagues already mentioned and i read his speech and it's an excellent speech that was given by our top military commander lieutenant general ben hodges, he has made a number of important points, i think in his speech perhaps chief of which is while ukraine's defense capability might not necessarily turn the tide overnight or

sherman: you have an intrusive regime, and then the blindfold will go on and you hope you can prevent it after that. mr. blinken: the blindfold one beyond, they will be off. >> mr. chairman, it is tiring to be reminded that president bush is responsible for all of our problems. after all this time, they are still blaming president bush. rep. sherman: i blame the executive branch. i have spent four years blaming the current executive branch. >> are we more concerned about the regime in iran having possession of a nuclear weapon versus what we seems to be just talking about the ability to manufacture a nuclear weapon? do you see that in this debate, mr. secretary? shouldn't we be -- frankly, what we have been hearing here, the american people are being rolled into a false sense of security. if we just prevent them from being able to manufacture the weapon, the crazy mullahs are not going to have their hands on the ability to have possession of a nuclear weapon. mr. blinken: like it or not iran has mastered the fuel cycle. we can't bomb that away or sanction not away. we probably cannot negotiate that way

sherman and jiim of the wireless telecommunications bureau. and claude aikin and melissa of the competition bureau. melissa will present the item. >> good morning, mr. chairman and commissioners. at the outset, the order before you sets for three bright line rules to ban conduct that we know threatens the open internet. first, broadband providers may not block access to legal content, application, services or non-harmful device. second, they may not impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of content, applications, services, or any classes thereof. third, they may not favor some internet traffic over other internet traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind. in other words, no fast lanes. as in the commission's open internet order, today's order also adopts a standard for judging concerns with any future practice is on a case i case basis. that standard will prohibit broadband providers from unreasonably interfering with or disadvantaging the ability of consumers and providers to reach one another. all of these rules, other than the ban on paid prioritization are subject to a common than's exception for reasonable network manag

mr. chairman, for holding this hearing. we all have stories of our constituents. we have the same stories of virginia. richard sherman, one of the things i think we could do that has come to my attention, the irs currently interprets the law saying that they don't believe that if they find out that you have been the victim of identity fraud, they don't even tell you as a citizen that you are the victim of the fraud. they don't notify law enforcement, so the notion -- i believe they can do it administratively but perhaps you were the ranking member can shake them up a little bit more, but if we can't get it administratively. -- business to the, was that we can sickest summation of the irs is a partner in this identification when it comes to their attention that someone has been a victim of identity theft and that we notified the victim and law enforcement. i think we see some not from the panel there. again, the numbers are huge as you pointed out. 5.8 billion in 2013. the second item i think we ought to consider, and this is something i have been working on the banking committee but some level of mandatory data breac