at the same time, national reforms that the drc has agreed to implement under the prc framework need to begin in earnest and be supported by the international community. i'd like to welcome the recent initiative of the democratic republic of congo and the international conference of the great lakes to launch a mineral certification program in an effort to stop the illegal exploitation of minerals and prevent armed groups in eastern drc from benefiting from it. this is an important first step which deserves the full support of the international community. at the regional level, the first meeting of the regional oversight mechanism, the 11+4 mechanism, took place on the 26th of may and established a technical support committee mandated to develop the benchmarks and indicators of progress for the implementation of the prc framework amongst other tasks. the committee is made up of senior representatives from the signatory countries of the pfc who met twice so far on the 24th of june and earlier this week on the 22nd and 23rd of july under the co-chairmanship of my special adviser and the

people talk about the government of north korea like the prc. it is not you like him or you're 6 feet under. if north korea took a softer stance it was because kim jong-il wanted it it was harder is because he wanted it did his generals suggest things to him? absolutely but you agree with the cheerleader or you ended up in camp 913. it is a little different now because it has to be under kim jong-un because the biggest problem is he does not know what he does not know and does not have the background or experience to make these judgments calls that the leader has to make an just doesn't have that experience or background to so i believe, they're not ordering him to do anything but he is taking a lot of advice to run the government because i think right now they're trying to help kim jong-un make the decisions even though he can't yet and if the government stabilizes over the next five years, then things may go back to the way they were. we will have to see but right now his judgment is weak because of the lack of the power base if he just doesn'

it are have travel reporting for the potes l governor arch prc. it also will -- agreement related to reduction. it will; however, require that those be placed or harmonized with the rest of the federal work force at time of new contract but in no way affect current contract with the life of the contract. it will have a work force specific pension assumption. i realize it's unfair to -- i don't have specific language, but i want to make sure those particularly the ones that the ranking member included in the draft legislation will be employed. >> okay. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you're saying the things you named are what? >> those are being placed before the bill comes to the committee. those are being placed to the base text of the bill. >> i see. >> we circulated draft legislation and been up on called madison. we have public comment in addition to yours. i want to make sure that the committee understands as you said we were 85% last year with the senate, even though we had to start over. we want to get as close to that 100% as we can before it