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Also hear from an attorney with the Natural ResourcesDefense Council and head of nuclear institute. Hearing expected to start in just a moment. Chairman is about to sit down. We should see the gavel come down here in a moment. Live coverage on c span3. Good morning and welcome to our hearing legislative proposal to advanced the use of Nuclear Energy. I want to thank all of our witnesses that advance and ill be introducing each of you before your fiveminute opening statement, but we want to thank marvin fratel for the great job he did at the Nuclear Energy institute and i think its plan to go on and look at other challenges at the end of this year, so were delighted hes here. He served as neis president chief executive order since 2009 and has long and distingui ....
Monk, certainly experienced his share of hard times in the military at the hands of our government. And another person who should be up here with us is Navy Chaplain wes modder, who i have the privilege and honor of representing as well. And i know that chaplain would love to be here himself to tell you his story. Unfortunately he cant do that. But what i am pleased to share with you all that chaplain modder is sitting here in the audience, right here in the first row. And chaplain modder, will you please stand up. [ applause ] these two men put everything professionally on the line. Both had over 19 years of service in the military. Both risked all of that because of what they believe in. And to do the right thing. And you know, two last points i want to make on this, travis, is first of all, there is a lot of misinformation out there about what rights we give up when we join the military, when we swear the oath of allegiance to t ....
Satellite imagery of the site. Its very clear that the iaea has reported regularly they have been undermined on doing effective verification. That is the starting point. Large amounts of verifications. They do not know what has taken place, but there are now some satellite images. Its problematic for verification. I would argue that this deal has further complicated the verification of that site. Its not a public agreement. I worked on we have worked intensively on iran since 2002 and i have worked with many countries, iraq, south africa, worked with the inspectors in iraq in the 1990s. We have published extensively about other countries and used iaea data. The iaea is a very secretive organization. But in the iran case, it has not been secret. Iran has complained bitterly about that for years. It is saying the iaea is leaking confidential information. I think they could make this irani8 deal public and release it to the Member States< ....
Agree more. We hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. I want to thank you mr. President , and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. With that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i suggest the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination. Executive office of the president , michael p. Botticelli of the District Of Columbia to be director of the National Drug control policy. The presiding officer under ....