Sunday. Lynn cheney this month. Shes the author of 12 books. Her most recent madison. Now some other programs on the threeday weekend to look out for. John hopkins all that and much more this labor weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. We are going today with michael hiltzick. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. We are going to get started. My name is candace. I work with the events here at politics and pros. We have a will the of events coming up this fall. I encourage you to grab one of our print calendar, sign up for our email list at the info desk as well as online for the events in september. As for tonights event, first thing if you would check again that your cell phones are on silent or off so that it doesnt disrupt our time here. What we are going to do is have an hourlong event, half of the time from the presentation from our speaker and half of the time to our questions. We are recording, cspan is here and it helps us catch your question on the reco
The administration is working on has had a lot to do with their national laboratory. Secretary moniz talked about to his earlier. With two of the three nationals be let into mexico. We cant talk to about all the great things those scientists have done and the contribution they have made but they really on top of these Nuclear Enterprise issues. I know the story will come out eventually how important it is and i would ask that the Washington Post editorial be put in the record at this point. Thank you all for your work they didnt. Thank you come and ive visited both of those labs with you. Certainly they bring an incredible role in our National Security as is Oak Ridge Lab in tennessee and cooperation with the on these issues. Any other comments . Senator kaine, yes sir. Thank you, mr. Chair come and to all Committee Members rationally supported the beginning of the negotiation with iran when president obama announced in november 2013 and really viewed as the fruition of their efforts.
Building. The committee was set to meet beginning now 2 15 eastern, but its pushed back a half hour, to 2 45. Taking up legislation that will require congressional review of the nuclear deal with iran. This is White House Press secretary josh ernest said president obama wouldnt necessarily reject the bill proposed by bob corker which would require greater congressional review of a potential deal to curb Irans Nuclear program. The National Journal writes that corker and the new member of maryland reached a compromise monday night to alter parts of the bill in ways that ernest said the administration would consider accepting. The White House Briefing is online at cspan. Org. Were also covering the la times festival of books. Heres a preview. In los angeles is the annual Los Angeles Times festival of books. And book tv will be live, both april 18th and 19th from the university of Southern California campus. Nick is the deputy publisher of the la times. When and how did the la times start
Bookseller. The white house reached a compromise with Congress Today over the Iran Nuclear Program framework. The new iran bill, better but still risky. He outlined the bill. The. To implement sanctions has been cut from 60 days to 30. Under the framework, he said the administration would report to Congress Every 90 days and observe the ultimate congressional approval vote on the bill itself. You can read more at Washington Post. Com. Next up, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee markup of the iran Nuclear Framework. It is one hour and 15 minutes. [no audio] senator corker this business meeting will come to order. The only order of Business Today is s615 the iranian act of 2015. I want to start by thanking all the members of the committee for the tremendous amount of work that they have done over several months to get us to the place that we are. And in any piece of legislation, obviously, there are things that members would like to see different, but i think we have reached a balanc
President will have a role in what we do. But i just want to assure you that in my conversations with the administration, it has been a very positive conversation over the last 10 days looking for a way that they can resolve the concerns that they had in a genuine way i just want to be clear that the administration has been very open about trying to get to where we are today and i just thank you for allowing us to have that open process. Senator corker senator coons. Senator coons thank you for the clear eyed and tough way to have negotiated this compromise that is in front of us this afternoon. We have a broad and shared common goal just to prevent a Nuclear Capable iran. The only question ahead of us is what role this congress and this committee will play in important foreignpolicy decisions and in particular in consideration of a deal with iran and the p5 1 partners should there be one. I want to thank senator menendez in his role for laying a lot of the groundwork, senator kaine fo