Cannot control these parameters which is surrounding us talking bout the idp as one example. How urdish questions as to much decentralization and. Bligations on the center so these [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2015] the future of technology. What we wanted to do was really create this onestopshop. A lot of these already exist from the government. But in a disparate world and kind of the online either. So we wanted to bring that together and make it easy from the public to Small Farmers all the way to engineers and professional developers to access the data and start using them in ways that would be powerful for them. Fab rirks will be ntelligent enough to receive the data we send it. So if im stressed out my fabric can soothe me with heat, vibration, other things i want it to do. So im going to turn it on hopefully the data we send and each one is a module. It provides vibe bration or heat. What are we looking at here . Whats contained in this . These are little microprocessers that actually tell these to vibrate. We have a lot of our suppliers to give folks a taste of who we are and what we do. One of our suppliers here is a Company Called eye patch. They have an interesting story. It was a person out of new york a journalist and he had an idea for a product. Had his product created now hes actually selling. So its almost sort of a success story. You can come, get your idea created and then become a supplier on the platform and sell your product back to others. I agree that theres still a long way to go. You hear debates about robots taking over the world and becoming more innocent than humans and so on. I would say thats a very optimistic perspective. I wish we were that smart to build robots that smart. But we are making a lot of headway in the recent years theres been a confluence of technologies enabling us to have robots that are smarter r away from the smart of human beings but smart enough to perform tasks on their own. Congress has until september 17 to vote on the Iran Nuclear Agreement that was reached in mid july. Before the congressional recess there was several hearings with u. S. Officials testifies on the deal including this one with secretary of state kerry moan yizz and jack lew. This portion is a little over an hour. The committee will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today, and we look forward to a hearing. I want to thank all of those in attendance. I know there was a little bit of an outbreak prior to us convening. We thank you for being here. We do hope you will respect that now the meeting is in order. Outbursts of any kind are unwarranted and we respect the democratic process that is taking place. We thank you for being here. We also thank you for your courtesy as we move ahead. Agreedthe witnesses have to be here as long as we wish. So we will start with seven minute questions. I do know based on last nights presentation, there is sometimes a tendency for witnesses to want to interject. What i would say is obviously we conduct our meetings with a lot of respect and courtesy, and i told ask the witnesses respond directly to the question with senators on both sides of the aisle. When you ask it directly to a witness, get them to respond. Someone else wants to interject, they can indicate they want to do so. Free totors should feel say i just wanted that witness and move onto the next to make sure we dont end up in a filibuster situation and we can get questions answered. I want to start today by. Hanking our committee we would not be here today, we would not have the information that we have today if we had not passed the Iran Nuclear Agreement review act. This would not be taking place. I think the American People now understand what this debate is all about. When congress put in place sanctions to bring irans iran successfully to the table as we did, we granted the executive Branch Something called a National Security waiver. And what that meant was, the executive branch had the ability to lay our congressionally mandated sanctions to suspend them until such a time as we permanently waive them down the road. As you know, unfortunately, over the objections of senator cardin and myself, unfortunately the executive ranch went directly to the United Nations this monday morning. Something that certainly was not in the spirit of this. But this was what was always intended. I do want to say that while secretary kerry has often said, congress will have the ability to weigh in at some point in time buyer to the law being being prior to the law passed, we now read the agreement and realize what he meant was a years from now. We would have the opportunity. Stated in thes agreement. I want to thank everybody. All 19 members for coming together unanimously, making that happen. And giving us a role. But a role that did not exist prior to that passing. I hate to say, we had a briefing last night and i left and spoke to members on both sides of the aisle. I was fairly depressed after last nights presentation. Deal,very detail of the witnessesaid out, our successfully batted them away with the hyperbole that it is either this deal or war. And therefore we were never able to appropriately get into the questions. As pulled secretary out a letter that was written in 2008 by the Prior Administration. I dont know if he will refer to that today. But as i thought about it, i realized that what he was we give out was unless enron what they want, iran what they want, x. Thats what it was about. Let me walk through that. We have been through an incredible journey. We began 20 months or so ago with a country that was a rogue nation. That had a boot on its neck. And our goal was to dismantle their program. Have ended up in a situation where the deal that is on the table basically codifies the industrialization of their Nuclear Program. Amazing transition that has occurred. And yet everyone here, not a person in this room including everyone here knows there is not one practical need for the program. Not one. We have not had a single scientist, not a single witness can lay out any reasoning, not a run single reason for a to be developing this program from the standpoint of what it means to them from a similar endpoint. Not one. Nine months after this agreement goes into effect, we realized u. N. After mondays adoption, unless congress intervenes, and 90 days this will be implemented. Sixnths after that months after that, all of the that exist will be lifted. Incredible. A few remaining sanctions, but the big ones that matter will be lifted. They have access to billions of dollars. Their economy will be growing, they will be shipping all around the world. It is an amazing thing. And so what happens, i think all this figure this out. Right now, we have some leverage. But nine months from now, the link leverage shifted, because we have a sanctions snapback. If we ever try to apply that, is what is called a nuclear snapback. The way the deal is structured, they can immediately just say, if you add sanctions, we are out of the deal. The leverage ships to them. The p ndp, i think most of us call it the previous military dimension, we know they were involved. Bearingy, that has no per the agreement. The witnesses say, if we dont deal in this it wont implement. But according to the agreement, it has no bearing whatsoever on whether sanctions are removed or not. And yet that was such an important piece for everyone to know. Anytime anywhere in sections. Last night we had witnesses being, i never said that. That has been a part of the mantra from day one. A part of their mantra. Anywhere, anytime. Now we have a process that they are declaring is 24 days. We know that is not right. Iaea hasns after the found violations that they are concerned about, and then you give a wrong time to respond to that, and by the thymic cakes and there is a 24 day process. But it could be months. As we know, in laboratories when you are developing a nuclear easy to it is very cover things up like that. All the focus has been on finding uranium. There are aspects of this that are very difficult to find. This is thesaid most comprehensive inspection regime. Thats not true. I have spoken to secretaries of state and others. More rapidr inspection process in iraq. That certainly did not serve us particularly well. Then and i have written of letter asking for additional materials we do not have. Havef the items we dont is regarding the agreement between iran and the iaea. My sense is we are never going to get that letter. Entity that we are relying upon to find out whether iran is cheating, we are not even going to have act is to that. But we do know one of the characteristics is very interesting. We have a professional athlete in chattanooga that spends about a month there. He is incredibly a role model. He has got incredible integrity. Hes a role model for the world. I was talking to him a couple of weeks ago about the program that professional athletes go through for drug testing. There are qualities to this that unfortunately, im told i cannot get into. But there are qualities to this program that would not be unlike send her owntes to urine samples in the mail, and asieving that believing that it came from them. Ive got some questions. I want to talk about who we are dealing with here. Have been to iraq many times. Listening toforget the general in baghdad. , he would we visit have on his coffee table, the i fps that were and kill americans. They were laying out. The ieds. They were laying on the coffee table. Every single one of them made by a ron. Once we develop the technology to counter that, what they did next was develop something called eft. Penetrator. Formed if they have an explosion. It heats up copper to go through andece of machinery to maim dismember americans. This was all a ron iran, every bit of it. We have visited these incredible heroes that have lost in some cases, to arms and a leg. Some cases, two legs into arms. Two arms. We see them all over the country. They are living with this today. This is the country we are dealing with. A country that created some of the most disturbing types and methods of meaning americans that have a been seen. Ambassadorto kill an here in washington dc not long ago. We know that. Then and i went over with others see somethingto the Holocaust Museum had put together. A young man named these are had taken a photograph caesar had taken a photograph of the syrian presence, which by the way, a iran a side would not even being in office if it were not for iran. The torture has been photographed and caught chronicled. It is an amazing thing. It is happening right now, i laid, as we sit here. Some people might say, that was iraq, but this is happening this very second, with the support of iran. Do you understand that . Peoples genitals right now are being amputated. People are being electrocuted. This is happening this very second in a prison in syria that iran is supporting. Someone say we have not done as much as much as we could to stop it because of these negotiations. College, i wasnt a particularly good student. The first part of college i was interested in sports. The latter part was interested in working. I learned one thing. Learned about the credit Critical Path method. I ended up building all over the country. I learned that you start with Something Like this, and you layout out a vision and build it out. You begin with the end in mind and you put first things first. It is the Critical Path. What i have seen our secretary he developed a tremendous warmth with irans foreign minister. But when i think he has actually done in these negotiations is codified a perfectly aligned pathway for iran to get a Nuclear Weapon just by abiding this agreement. Look at the things that they need to do, the way it is late out. I dont think you could more perfectly laid it out. Laid out. From my perspective, mr. Secretary, im sorry. Thatnlike a hotel guest leaves only with a hotel , i believe you have been fleeced. In the process, of being fleeced, which you have done here, you have turned iran from being a pariah to now congress being a pariah. Ago, you were saying that no deal is better than a bad deal. Is no way that there that you could have possibly been thinking about war a few weeks ago. No way. Now,et what you say to us and said it over and over yesterday, that if somehow congress were to turn this down, if congress were to turn this down, the only option is war, whereas a few weeks ago for you, for you to turn it down, the only option is war. I dont think you can have it both ways. If congress were to say these sanctions cannot be lifted, it wouldnt be any different than the snapback that we now have where, in essence, the United States on its own, the United States on its own can implement snapback, but my guess is the other countries, as you stated before, would not come along. We have got to decide which way that it is. I know you speak with a degree of disdain about our regional partners when you describe their reaction to this deal. The things we have to remember is if we had actually dealt with dismantling their Nuclear Program, they wouldnt even responding in the way that they have. Notnot only is this occurred, in addition, we are lifting the Ballistic Missile embargo in eight years. I have no idea how that even entered into the equation, but it did at the end. We are lifting the embargo in five years. Unbelievably, we are immediately lifting the Ballistic MissileTesting Program. We are lifting that band. I have to say that based on my believe you have crossed a new threshold in u. S. Foreign policy. We are now at the policy of the United States to enable a state sponsor of terror to obtain sophisticated, Industrial NuclearDevelopment Program that has only one real practical need. That is what you hear it today to ask support. I look forward to the testimony and the appropriate questions. Senator cardin. Senator cardin first mr. Chairman, thank you very much for convening this hearing. I want to thank secretary kerry and lew. Tary moniz, have beenssistance to negotiating. Incredible service to our country, incredible sacrifice to families. Very much for your dedicated service, your hard work, and your service to america. The iranian Nuclear Agreement review act that senator worker referred to passed earlier this year, was an effort by the members of congress to set up the appropriate review for a potential deal with karen. With iran. We are pleased that with difficult negotiations, we were able to get a unanimous vote of the committee to get the support of the white house, and we believed we accomplished two major objectives. In passing that statute. First of course, we set up the appropriate review for congress. It allows us to take action, or we dont have to take action. It recognizes the fact that the sanction regime was passed by a role toand we had play in regards to implementing any agreement as we now see in oa that congress has a role to play. So it set up for an early process. This hearing is part of the process. It took you two years to negotiate this agreement. Took two months at the energy that final details. We are on day four of our review of 60 days. I have not reached a conclusion. And i would hope that most members, i would hope members of the congress would want to get all the information, allow those who were directly involved to make their case. We have hearing set up the following week. We will get outside experts. Many of us have taken advantage of that opportunity in the past and i would hope we would all use that opportunity before drawing a conclusion. This is a very important agreement for the point of view of u. S. Foreign policy. Iran and the region is critically important to the United States security. But there is a second objective to the Nuclear Review act. That is to concentrate all of our efforts on iran. And speak with unity as much as we could in the United States. Couldt our negotiations concentrate on vienna and not on washington. In dealing with getting the very best possible agreement. You, mr. T tell chairman, i have looked at the framework that was agreed to in april, and looking at the final agreement we have gotten today, our negotiators got an awful lot. Particularly on the nuclear front, which is beyond my expertise. We got things that there were many rumors during these last wasle of months of what going to be in this agreement. And how it was going to be the april frame framework, that in fact have been strengthened. I want to applaud our negotiators for taking the strength of our unity and turning it into results. We will be talking a little bit about that. The objective is clearly to prevent iran from ever becoming a Nuclear Weapon power. That is our simple objective. We know who we are dealing with. This is a state sponsor of terrorism. This is a country that abuses human rights, that violates the Ballistic Missile area. We know all that. We singularly are trying to prevent iran from becoming a Nuclear Weapon power because we know that is a game changer in the region. That is the objective of this agreement. And the standard that we have to use, because there is no trust in iran for us, the supreme friday after the agreement said, we will trample upon america. We dont trust iran. But we have to leave emotion out of this. We have to look at the agreements. And weve got to determine whether the compliance with this agreement by the United States will put us on a path that makes it less likely are more likely that iran will be coming Nuclear Weapon power. That has got to be the test that we use. Mr. Chairman, i have many questions. That i hope we will get answers today. I hope those answers will provoke a debate among us in congress on the American People, and help us make the