i hope that especially the nomination of adam zubin can be approved by the senate. hopeful chairman shelby and all of us who support zubin will go to leadership and ask them to move on this. he's tremendously well qualified. he started with president obama. his job as undersecretary for treasury for terrorism and financial crimes is essential in carrying out our mission around the world. he was nominated almost a year ago. i would also ask that we move more quickly on the nomination of the confirmation of the export/import bank nominee who will mean that agency can actually carry out its entire mission. thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman? >> senator schumer. >> thank you for the courtesy. i'm going to take a minute why i will vote no on the block of nominees. not because of three of them but because of the two s.e.c. nominees. i voted no because i have not received answers sufficient from either nominee to the s.e.c. on the question of the s.e.c.'s rule making on the disclosure of corporate political spending. i believe this should be a priority for the s.e.c.

enacting under secretary zubin is right. iran is responsible for making iran an attractive, safe place to do business, and for many individuals and businesses, iran appears neither attractive nor safe. for example, in october, iran arrested ciamak namazi, a businessman who is a dual iranian citizen. he previously ran a consulting business in iran. he still has not been charged. in fact, the only recent development in mr. namazi's case, is that his father, aquir, an 80-year-old man who suffers from heart problems was arrested in february and sent to a notorious prison fnlt why would iranian leaders expect foreign investment to flow into their country when it arbitrarily arrests and detains those seeking business opportunities for their own country? and it's not just iranian's flawed legal system or its ongoing human rights violations. more than half of iran's economy consists of shadowy organizations controlled in part by the iranian revolutionary guard corps, the irgc, the hard-line military force committed to the preservati