assad, who is known for long meetings, we discussed virtually every problem of the world and he have peri problem of the mideast. -- and every problem of the mideast. it seemed president assad was open to conversation. i had many similar meetings with him, was the only member of congress to attend his funeral in the summer of 2000. at that time i met his successor, president bashir assad and have gotten to know him with meetings virtually every year in the intervening time. there have been back channel negotiations conducted through turkish intervention between israel and syria, and i think that dialogue between the united states and syria could promote future discussions between syria and israel. it would be my hope that the day would be sooner rather than later when syria would be willing to talk to israel directly. the israeli officials, the prime ministers have repeatedly stated their interest in direct conversations. syria has resisted but has undertaken conversations through back channels. president clinton came very close to effectuating -- or made a lot of progress toward an agree

things you should be concerned about in the future, you can ignore that future time only at your)b perie point of a stress test is to tell you about the financial health of these institutions and whether or not they were -- they will be able to survive going forward. our concerns to not stop with december of 2010. but the stress test does, the time frame. that is particularly worrisome because of the state of the commercial real-estate mortgages. they are on a longer period for when they will come up to be refinanced, so that numbers -- we were supplied numbers from a representative from deutsche bank. the r & r annual report. the numbers for -- they are in our annual report. the numbers for 2012, 2013 are

as former chair and vice chairman, william peri, and former secretary of defense for energy and for -- william perry, and former secretary of defense for energy and defense for presidents nixon, ford and cart, jake schlesinger specifically, stated in testimony to the senate armed service committee, the congress wanted the commission to reach a bipartisan consensus on its recommendations and findings to provide a road map for action by the administration and the congres congress." the final report issued by the commission on may 6 did that to a remarkable degree, and i want today to compliment the members of that commission and their staffs for the hard work and the report that they issued n. fact, the commission reached a -- issued. in fact, the commission reached a bipartisan consensus on all but one issue, the merit of the comprehensive test ban treaty, which this body rejected ten years ago. it now falls to the administration and the congress to act on the findings and the recommendations of the commission and the recommendations come as a propitious time because the administration