Screeria nigeria. Te. And the house ways and Means Committee looks at the state of the u. S. Economy. Last month the white house announced anjfyt agreement with cuba that includes steps to ease a trade embargo against the caribbean nation. Experts on International Trade and advocates for increased commercial ties to cuba discuss the next steps for imageak u. S. cuban relations. This discussion hosted by the washington International Trade association is an hour and a half. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for braving the weather today. Gkevr t hahp hc we were a little worried that the federal government might have a delay or a closure because, as you all know, when theres a half an inch of snow in washington anything can happen, can have a disaster. John came in from buffalo this morning where when they have half an inch of snow, thats sort of like spring right . Its like pollen on our cars here. Im kevin levinson, the executive director ofo we are delighted to have you all here. Befo
Did mention, you brought out your customer problems with our banks and i think that given that the statute that i referenced allowed only temporary exemptions, do you believe it is time that those involved in these type of real estate transactions should be required to implement u. S. AntiMoney Laundering programs . Asthings such as the virtual word we need to think about this in order to preclude dirty money from entering the system. Anything that moves in terms of hiding money criminals and terrorists are very good at trying to circumvent our measures. Ms. Waters i suppose you are aware of the extensive article that was done about the Time Warner Center and it is absolutely startling to take a look at the purchase of those properties and who is buying them and how it operates. I think that this information is very instructive. And it should cause us to want to take a closer look about what we do about these kind of real estate transactions. Thank you. I held back. Mr. Williams i have
Effective in our goals. I also have concerns about the current effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation to undermine the flow of money to terrorists. I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on these issues. Continuing the Task Force Effort to Counter Terrorist financing. Thank you, and i yield back. Chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the full committee, ms. Waters, for one minute. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I applaud the bipartisan efforts surrounding this task force and believe it will serve us well as we work to guard against key threats to our National Security. Today the task force will explore dangerous new trend the growing convergence of terrorism and crime while terrorist organizations motivated by ideology and criminal enterprise is driven generally by greed have been thought to operate independent from one another. The testimony from the Witnesses Today makes it clear that this is no longer the norm. Furthermore, in an age of globalization, the growing
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They dont want to be designated but they also said the fact that they are closely supervised by the that is one of the most to the community. So the fact that they dont want to be close and supervised by the fed is simply the size alone and theres nothing they can do about it unless you want to break up fidelity. Thank you for asking. Okay, so banks greater than 50 billion dont have a choice. That is my time. Im sorry, did you want to talk over me . We know that. Believe it or not, the time alongside the gentle lady from new york. So why did they not want to be designated. Designation and supervision is what leads them to think this, so why would they not want to be designated. Again, at the time alongside to the gentle lady from new york area. I rather hear discussion between the two of them than the majority of people here on both sides. You are recognized. I agree with that. Here you have to have designation, which is aig and he had no choice and they were silent and the other Insur