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[background noises] good morning. Today we welcome for nominees to testify before the committee as we consider the nominations to serve as commissioners of the federal trade commission. Joseph simons has been nominated to serve as commissioner and tc chairman and his credentials are impressive. He served as the f tcs antitrust enforcer among other positions of the commission. Most recently he served as partner and cochair of the antitrust group at the law firm of paul, weiss, ripken and garrison. Hes in antitrust and Consumer Protection attorney who was recently served as Vice President for Re...

[background noises] [background noises] good morning. Today we welcome for nominees to testify before the committee as we consider the nominations to serve as commissioners of the federal trade commission. Joseph simons has been nominated to serve as commissioner and tc chairman and his credentials are impressive. He served as the f tcs antitrust enforcer among other positions of the commission. Most recently he served as partner and cochair of the antitrust group at the law firm of paul, weiss, ripken and garrison. Hes in antitrust and Consumer Protection attorney who was recently served as V...

Verification will end when the comprehensive solution ends. Then we revert back to the Additional Protocol and comprehensive safeguards. The same verification that every other country in the world is subject to. Its a critical question for the committee to ask, whether youre prepared today to agree that if iran behaves for a set period of time then were prepared to end their sanctions and prepared to end special scrutiny of iran and treat them as if they were japan. I point out in my testimony, there are other examples of countries that have abandoned Nuclear Weapons programs and weve accepted...

With zero tolerance for cheating. An immediate test of irans willingness to cooperate rests with the iaeas attempts to clarify evidence the International Observer group has on the potential military dimensions of irans programs. For several years, iran has refused to provide information or explanation to the iaea on past bomb efforts. This includes the Parchin Military base where iran has gone to Great Lengths to eliminate all traces of any clandestine activity, including demolishing buildings and including removing large areas of soil from the site. Irans willingness to come clean on its past...

Verification over several decades and the views i will be presenting are my own and not intended to represent views of those ive been associated with such as the department of defense and the Nuclear Treaty monitoring and verification. My statement draws in part on those experiences and on the Defense Science Board Task force report as well as the work of a nongovernmental task force on verification requirements for Nuclear Agreement with iran. Neither of the two task forces makes a judgment as to whether compliance with any particular Nuclear Agreement is ver fibl. Indeed, we do not yet know ...