Emery organization, predominantly to protect the employees of the cdc of highly infectious agents in their Testing Laboratories and around the world. We have not had that type of relationship and would think it would be appropriate perhaps for the ur structure or some other vehicle that exists. Are you being homered . Sorry . Emery being in atlanta and cdc being there, are they just giving money to the hometown hospital, or is there some contractual relationship . Just like we need a way to take care of our employees if something tragic were to happen and they were to become ill, they need a way to manage their employees as well. And i think that was the original basis of the relationship. We would very much enjoy a similar relationship. And i think you are on equal if not better footing, medically speaking at least. Speaking of that, just to pick your brain a little bit here and maybe someone has already done this. Youve had two successful patients that got to hug all the doctors and nurses that helped them. And then we had the last patient that came in that appeared from the tv video to be in Super Critical condition. What in your opinion is the reason that perhaps this physician, latest patient passed away . Any takeaways of how you were able to treat the first patient versus this one that came in a more Critical Condition . Any Lessons Learned . I think the most important Lesson Learned is the earlier we have access to freet any patient here in africa, the better the yield is going to be. This particular patient had renal failure, liver failure, was unconscious when he arrived in the United States. What weve learned is that those are all very bad predictors of outcome. The earlier patients that we cared for did have early organ failure, but were reversible through good supportive care. They all received experimental medication, as did this patient. But i believe that the organ system failure we dealt with over the weekend was just far too extreme. With just this one example, its probably not certain, but is there just a point of no return with an ebola patient, their organs have already shut down . Is there a way of making of treating them so they can survive, or is it just at that point not survivable . I dont think its possible to predict. Young people this gentleman was in his early 40s. The thinking was that it was worth an allout effort to attempt to save him. And i dont think, if you could take the exact same patient twice that you could predict the outcome. Appreciate it. Dr. Gold, you and nebraska medicine and unmc make us proud. I appreciate all of your efforts. We have a great team, thank you. You do, with mr. Greens daughter. Gentleman yielding back . I yield back. Recognize mr. Green for one minute of wrapup. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ski unanimous consent to place in the record a statement by the American Federation of state and county municipal employees urnling congress to support the president s emergency funding of 6. 18 million. Without objection. Mr. Chairman, i want to thank both panels today. I know the first one is gone [ inaudible ]. I appreciate our witnesses being here, but also for the panel that was put together, and thats what our oversight Investigation Committee is supposed to be doing. To follow up on my colleague, im the first time in history that the intelligence from your children went back down the tree. I appreciate that, first time in mankind. Thank you. So noted for the record. I want to thank this panel. You have give you 30 seconds here . Dr. Burgess . I was going to thank the panel, too. I have been through a number of these hearings. Our committee, of course, has done hearings. I was allowed to sit in Homeland Security and they did a field hearing in dallas. I sat through the hearing on Foreign Affairs last september. This has been the most informative panel that i have had the pleasure to hear from. I really appreciate it. I know it was a long day and i know we made you wait a long time. But i really appreciate you guys sticking with us and sharing with us the information that you shared, because its been absolutely critical. Ill yield back. Through, doctor. I want to add to that. I almost had the feel that the first panel we had today was speaking the ball. We got this, and we can be confident and i dont agree. After we had our hearing several weeks ago, put forth recommendations, we needed some level of travel restrictions, people ought to be isolated for 21 days. What i hear, not only did you do that along with the hospitals of so many colleagues, but your employees didnt complain. They recognize they dont leave their compassion at the borders of africa. I thank them for that selflessness and altruism, not only while theyre there but on returning home. From this, several takeaways, people with level four gear can still get ebola. We dont know all the routes. What we dont want to have is a false sense of security, that everything is fine. I worry that the first hearing this room was packed with cameras and people in the press. At this point in the hearing, what youve told us should still tell us, we have to keep our radar up, full alert here. We have a major battle for this taking place in africa, very difficult time forgetting people in and out of there. If any of those Airlines Stop their flights which could happen at any moment, were at a loss for moving people and supplies in and out of there. Along those lines, i hold to it that we should still have people do 21day restrictions from touching patients when they come back. Im glad hospitals are doing that anyways. I hate to think what would happen if that did not occur. Quite frankly, i think the hospital would have to tell other patients if they did have some employees who were with ebola patients. I want to echo mr. Eye sacks, we ought to have a bridge for people going to and from africa, so many charities, catholic relief, methodist and so many groups ive heard from, doctors without borders. We need a way for them to easily go and come back and we can help monitor them. This is one less thing to worry about. With the amount of money were talking about going through this, especially when you look at 20 million going to new york city to monitor the people exposed to that doctor, that would pay for a heck of a lot of flights. Please stay in touch. Committee members will have questions for you and we ask that you respond quickly and in a timely manner with any questions. With that, again, thank you to the panel and this Committee Hearing is adjourned. 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A high ranking treasury official says the administration is 100 committed to come bratting isis and outlined what the department is doing to attack the funding sours. David cohen appeared before the House Financial ServicesCommittee Last week as former officials outlined treasury efforts and outlined additional steps. Congressman Jeb Hensarling chair it is committee. The committee will come to order. Without objection t chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Before we begin, if you think you are in a strange room, you are. We did not change the portraits. As i have announced previously to the committee, our hearing room i think is the last hearing room in the rayburn building to receive a sound upgrade and other modifications to make the room ada compliant. As a reminder to all members we will be a nomadic tribe between now and theoretically the end of mar march. We hope that doesnt mean mid may. We will take whatever Committee Room our friends will allow us to have. If you see chairman schuster on the floor, please thank him for his kindness in allowing our committee to use his Committee Room this hearing is entitled terrorist financing and the Islamic State. I wish to advise members who are unaware, we have two panels today and, of course, we also have organizing meetings for the 114th congress that are ensuing. We are going do release the administration witness, secretary cohen. At noon we will convene the second panel at that time and the hearing will be gavelled down at 1 00. Please know this will be our first hearing on this vitally important topic. It wont be our last in the next congress. Members who dont have an opportunity to ask questions if need be, we can certainly call the witnesses back in the future. At least for those on the republican side of the aisle, once we have the second panel begun, wherever we last left in the q, those who didnt have an opportunity to ask questions of the first panel, we will start with you on the second panel. I now wish to recognize myself for one minute for an opening statement. The 9 11 commission estimated al qaedas brutal, evil attack on 11 cost the terrorists approximately 500,000. So for 500,000 terrorists were able to murder almost 3,000 of our fellow countrymen and inflict im measurable suffering upon our nation. Today we face another terrorist enemy for which 500,000 appears to be pocket change organization that reportedly raises between 1 million and 2 million a day. Unlike al qaeda and other terrorist groups with which we are familiar and rely mainly on private donations in state sponsorship to fund their activities, isil is almost i internally financed and apparently sitting on assets of almost 2 billion. Todays hearing continues this committees on going efforts to ensure our government is doing Everything Possible to stop the Islamic State and other terrorists from using the Global Financial system to pay for their evil activities. Fighting the financial war against terror will demand constant innovation and improvement. The tools weve used in the past may not be suitable for the future. I look forward to hearing from all the witnesses on what may be necessary to upgrade inknow investigate and starve the terrorists what we so desperately need to carry out their attacks. I will recognize the ranging member for three minutes for an opening statement. Thank you very much for scheduling todays hearing. I would like to thank undersecretary cohen and each of our other witness force being here today. Im looking forward to hearing about the administrations efforts to degrade isils Financial Capability and to review the effectiveness of our current Legal Framework in deterring terroristss financing and money laundering. The Islamic State also known as isil or isis is an incredibly violent organization that has shown a particularly callous disregard for human life, employeeing shocking and brutal tactics that include beheading, mass murder and rapes, and more recently allegations of chemical weapons use. The group is tremendously destabilizing force across large swaths of iraq and syria and its brutal campaigns have approximately drawn the condemnation appropriately drawn the condemnation of the broader International Community. In addition to the horrific massacres, kidnappings and decapitations, officials now believe that isil is one of the richest terrorist groups to ever exist with estimated assets in excess of 1 billion. Unlike most other terrorist groups which tend to rely heavy on foreign sponsors, isil generally raises its funds internally limiting the opportunities traditionally available to the Treasury Department to cut them off from the formal Financial System regardless. Treasures ability to sanction and block assets remains vital to ensure that over the long run the United States and our allies can shut downey funds that are tied to elicit oil sales, extortion and kidnapping for ransom. As we make progress in curtailing isils internal funding schemes, it may be forced to rely more heavy on types of funding that would most likely have to flow through the formal Financial System. To guard against this on all other efforts to finance terrorist activities, treasury, our financial regulators, the department of justice as well as Congress Must work diligently to strengthen the enforcement and deterrent value of our counterterrorism and antimoney laundering laws. Due to concerns that the department of justice and regulators have not met the tax of Holding Banks and their executives sufficiently accountable for blatant violations of law designed to staunch the flow of funds to terrorist groups, i join with my democratic colleagues earlier in this congress in introducing legislation that would close loopholes, encourage the flow of information related to elicit activity and strengthen civil powers to hold Bank Executives accountable for their role in safeguarding our National Security among other things. I hope as part of this committees discussion of the adequacy of International Banking policy we take a hard look at the proposal dem cats has put forth but yet to be considered by this committee. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair now recognizes the chairman of our Capital Markets subcommittee, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Garrett for one minute. I thank the chairman for holding this important hearing today. Isis inherits the rightful claim to the evil legacies of senseless brutality and inhumanity. Theres no doubt that, if given the opportunity, isis would try to harm americans here in the homeland. As a member of congress who represents the District Across from the river, what once was the World Trade Center twin towers, i know we cannot be cavalier about security threats such as isis. Unfortunately, our commander in chief hasnt always appreciated isiss threat to this nation. Accordingly im concerned how president seriously president obama has taken the threat. I look forward todays hearing and todays witnesses including an administration official. I hope to get a better understanding of what has been done and must be done to not only degrade but actually to im nate this terrorist threat. Thank you, mr. Chairman. The chair recognizing mr. Sherman from california for 1 30. I spent a substantial amount of time on these issues, our terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee on Foreign Affairs. We learned that qatar is a major source of funds both at the governmental level but also allowing its citizens to donate to hezbollah, hamas and isis. Isis is much more internal funded. At one point it relied more on donations. There are those that attack the president have an overly simplistic view of the situation. Ii isis is evil. Many of isiss enemies are more dangerous than isis. Given this complicated circumstance, simplistic attacks on policy dont really further the situation. Im concerned that the electricity continues to be on in all the cities that isis controls. This means that either we are providing that electricity from dams under the control of the Iraqi Government or were