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Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here today to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be the secretary of energy. He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy ....
He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full mornin ....
Weeks, the congress actively moving forward with its proposed sanctions bill could have an unpredictable effect on leadership opinion public opinion, in tehran. Just to set the scene then ill ask simon gas who is leading our delegation in the direct talks with the iranians to say something, but just to set the scene, there has been some movement over the last few weeks. We have seen some movement. There is reason for cautious optimism, signals coming out of tehran there is a desire to try to find a deal. But there is still difficult issues in which there is no movement at all. And you have to make heroic assumptions to get to the point where it is all agreed in the next two or three weeks. But i think compared to where we were when we left vienna in november, i think actually we have made quite significant progress over the last few weeks. But still very challenging. Well, firstly on the intervention, i think it cuts in both directions. You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter ....
You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter which is worth looking at. One of the issues which is a arisen of course in congress over the last couple of weeks, including with the visit with netanyahu is that it probably has made it rather more in congress than it was previously. That also changes the dynamic as far as the United States is concerned. The foreign secretary said, we have made some progress in the negotiations, i think there is a willingness on both sides to try to reach a deal, but the obstacles are still formidable. These are about Big Decisions which are going to have to be reached primarily by iranian colleagues, about the future of their nuclear industry, and the amount they have invested in it. Those are difficult decisions. And as the foreign secretary said, there are still a number of them which are critical to success on which we do not have movement. ....