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About the president s 2017 budget. He answered questions about puerto ricos debt crisis, tax code reform and a proposal for a new tax on oil. This is two hours, ten minutes. The committee will come to order. Todays hearing is on president obamas budget for fiscal year 2017. I particularly want to thank secretary lew for providing for appearing before us this morning and providing his time for us. While there are some hints about some of the details in advance, Congress Officially received the president s Budget Proposal yesterday. And as has been the case particularly under this administration...

Way. Yesterday we made progress advancing two of the major components of the u. N. Resolution. The trucks are lined up. The permissions are being granted. They should flow today or tomorrow. In the wee hours of friday morning, we agreed that the sustained delivery of humanitarian aid will begin this weekend. First to the areas where it is most urgently needed, then all those in need throughout the country, particularly in the besieged areas. The u. N. Has said that the trucks are loaded and ready to go. We established a task force which has met already for the first time in a geneva, and will ...

Thank you, good morning. Chairman fitzpatrick, Ranking Member lynch, members of the tax force. On behalf of foundation for defense of democracieses and i will center on illicit finance. Thank you for aling you me to testify. It is important to clarify how the trade fits into isiss Overall Economic goals. One way to understand the goals looking at some of the strategies guiding the groups actions. One of isiss aims to win over locals who may be on the fence to submitting to jihadist rule. This gives context to the antiquities trade in isis territory. How much isis earns from looting ancient ter...

We need to cut off trade routes that terrorist organizations use to finalize goods. The same strategies we need to combat antiquities trafficking can be used in a broader strategy to combat isis. This task force discussed the roots that isis used to smuggle cash, we learn many of these routes run through turkey and jordan and has prepared marks for for todays hearing it was indicated that isis is using similar routes to smuggle antiquities of its territories. In addition he notes lebanon as was the volken route through greece and bulgaria are being used to smuggle illicit commodities. Currentl...

Emergent treat, and i think in the more cochran strategy, first of all, we have all this state in this region, militias, revenge groups, sectarian groups, terroristic groups, criminal groups and so of course, libya talked about some groups we can say only in libya we have merely 300 militias. And when you go a little bit to this all this separatist groups dealing with all the terrorists, link it to all these terrorist groups and national organized crime. Pick in this time, on one hand, as the major role of terrorism and the terrorist groups, we have certainly daesh, as you see it, and is activ...