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Hill where the House Foreign Affairs committee is about to hear from secretary of state john kerry, jack lew, and earnest muniz. Last week the three secretaries were grilled before a senate committee. Libby casey is live on capitol hill. Libby, good morning, last weeks hearing did get testy at least at times. Are we expecting the same today . Stephanie we certainly are. The House Republicans intend to go over their own set of questions, and well hear tough questions from democrats too. It wasnt ...

To take out the facilities and who has actually deployed that weapon, but iran has already mastered the fuel cycle. They have mastered the ability to produce significant stockpiles of fissile material and you cant bomb away that knowledge any more than you can sanction it away. I was chair of the committee when we a lot of us joined together and put most of the iran sanctions in place, and i know well as you do that the whole point was to bring iran to the negotiating table. Even the toughest sa...

Ultimately, yes. Ultimately they are the iran sanctions act itself. There is the lifting of sanctions. Ultimately they would have to vote. If we dont do that pursuant to the agreement are there any penalties on our part . We would have broken it, and all bets are off. Can a future president choose to abide by the president . Absolutely. A future president can but its our adjustment if this agreement is fully implemented and its working well no future president is going too choose to do that beca...

The iaea contradicted that and said while its true with some of the larger scale operations some things such as manufacturing uranium components and triggers could be covered up in the 24 days. Im trying to get a clear answer on this issue because i think its one of the key components when trying to look at this in an intellectually honest way to see if we have a verifiable deal. Ive spoken with mr. Hinanen. Hes up the river at harvard these days, but the issue i want to emphasize and what ive a...

Come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. And we look forward to a fulsome hearing. I want to thank those, also in attendance. I know there was a little bit of an outbreak prior to us convene convening. We thank you for being here. We do hope youll respect that now the meetings in order. Outbursts of any kind are unwarranted and will respect the democratic process that is taking place here. So, again, we thank you for beg being here. We also thank you for your courtesy a...

United kingdom, our strong ally support this . Yes. Does australia, one of our strongest allies support this accord . Yes. Does germany support this accord tphao yes. Does france support this accord . Yes. Does new zealand support this accord . I have not seen their statement. They are on the Security Council, and they voted for it. Oh, in the vote, yes. Either by voice support or a vote. Did jordan voice its support in their vote . Yes. Did spain, did nigeria and lithuania . Yes. You get the dr...

Serious question that needs to be objected to. Senator menendez . I was going to add a small foot note to the issue of countries without diplomatic relations not being part of the inspection team. I want to point out again for decades now all inspectors have training here in the United States. Were very confident in a very, very broad set of confident people. In addition i could get you the exact number but right now i think we have a dozen americans in the safegardz efforts at iaea and they pla...

He gave 2 billion to nih, which is more than 5 . Its 5 plus inflation. Pretty darn good, better than the house, but better than the president and he did it at the expense of a lot of other good things in the bill. Dont get me wrong. Im not happy with the way he approached it, but he was sensitized by the researchers in st. Louis. Washington university to the need for medical research. And i believe this crosses the spectrum. We have to reach the point where we take the research and innovation an...

Goes forward, will the congress u. S. Congress have any role any further role in this Agreement Number one . Number two can any president alter this agreement or refuse to abide by it in the future . Well, congress will always have a role, obviously, and youve made that Crystal Clear in the context of what were doing here now. So, yes, there will be an ongoing role with respect to the enforcement, the implementation, our do we have to vote on anything . Afterwards . To repeal sanctions or ultima...

Provides a new tool for resolving such disputes within a short period of time so the iaea gets the acis needs within 24 days. This is the first time there is a cutoff in time. But of course most important to complement that is environmental sampling provides sensitive measurement of microscopic measurements of Nuclear Materials even after attempts are made to remove the material and in a 2003 example found undeclared Nuclear Material even after iran denied access for six months. The combination ...