During a Senate Banking hearing on "Minimizing Potential Threats From Iran" a code pink activist held a neon pink sign the size of a sheet of legal paper that read "DISARM ISRAEL". The person, clad in pink, arrived in the middle of the hearing (1:06:52 on the C-SPAN video) and sat behind James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State, for over an hour. Committee chairman Chris Dodd allowed this this silent protest.