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I commend you for pushing it through the house i had help even from the other side. Exactly. The way that it will be used and be effective is that it allows the federal regulators to rely on state examinations for purposes of overseeing compliance with antiMoney Laundering regulations, that will expand our ability to get insight into the quality of the antiMoney Laundering efforts out in the across the country, particularly in the Money Services industry. And that will, i think, enhance the confidence that Financial Institutions have in taking on Money Service businesses as customers. So to ge...

Grown from maybe 27 to now 800. As you know thats important because it means that funds in the u. S. Can be blocked and the u. S. Persons and entities are no longer permitted to do business with those on the list. It is my understanding that so far only four members of isis have been designated global terrorists by treasury and it is my understanding that these four are not involved with the major Funding Sources of this elicit Petroleum Trade to the black market. It strikes me as a little bit of a low number. Can you describe the challenges and what should be the expectation of the committee ...

It is often possible to tell where oil comes from although im also told there are some similarities among fields. I cant tell you with great certainty well be able to do that but i believe so. We all want to go after isis. The policy issue is do we go after isis in a way that causes harm to the civilians under its control . As i said in my Opening Statement we didnt hesitate to bomb occupied europe. If a businessperson of good character and reputation in mosul wants to buy something from europe using the International Banking system, a civilian item, do we try to stop that . Well, congressman,...

But they dont have assets here, or around the world. Theyre doing things domestically in iraq. It would not make a difference to add them to the list. What we want to do ultimately is make a difference. What we need to do in particular is not just focusing on the guy today who has the title of finance minister and doing things only within iraq, but the middle men who are facilitating oil payments and anything crossing the borders. Are there leverage points that treasury, or anywhere in the administration, that we could use to encourage whether its kuwait, qatar, or turkey, or other countries i...

Kuwait as the two jurisdictions in the gulf where additional steps could be taken. Time of the gentleman is expired. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Lynch. Thank you, mr. Chairman, again, mr. Secretary, thanks for your willingness to testify. I just want to make one observation. I do share the frustration that some of my colleagues across the aisle have expressed about staunching the flow of oil and degrading some of the facilities that are currently under the control of isis. But i do want to point out that, for instance, the beiji oil refinery, i dont know, about 7...