Threaten strengthening how the department fights terror. I strongly believe and understand that there are very, very important tools within the Treasury Department that can come pat terrorism and that many of these tools such as sanctions are extremely effective and keep our Armed Service out of harm. So i am fully committed to the maximum amount of law to both enforce the existing sanctions in a very strict way and i will work with the president elect as he sees fit on additional sanctions and there are also other programs within treasury that i believe are very, very effective in fighting terrorism. Its a very important part of the treasury. And i know that that has been done very effectively. We all agree its important. What were trying to do is assess your qualifications. You havent been willing to talk medicare, havent been willing to talk specifics on terror. Lets talk about qualifications on the committee on Foreign Investment because this is Something Else you would have respon
Now treasury sect nominee Steven Mnuchin testifies before the Senate Finance Committee Help faced questions on hi as ceo of one west, bank that foreclosed on thousands of home owners after the 2008 downturn. This portion of the hearing is three and a half hours. Committee will come to order. Welcome to this more mornings hearing. Well discuss the nomination of mr. Steven mnuchin to serve as secretary of treasury for the Incoming Trump administration. I want to officially welcome mr. Mnuchin for to the finance committee. I certainly appreciate your willingness to appear before us here today and to serve in this important position. The position of treasury secretary is among the most important in the executive branch. The next treasury secretary will be asked a lot of questions that are going to very, very important here today. Well be talking about advancing policies that will improve our inagurations economic and fiscal outlook. This position oversees the collection of taxes and the ma
Senator hatch committee will come to order. Welcome to everyone to this mornings hearing. We will discuss the nomination of mr. Steve mnuchin to serve as secretary of treasury for the Incoming Trump administration. I want to officially welcome mr. Munchin to the finance committee. I appreciate your willingness to appear before us here today and serve in this important position. The position of treasury secretary is among the most important in the executive ranch. The next treasury secretary will be asked will be asked a lot of questions that are going to be very, very important here today. They will be we are going to be talking about advancing policies to improve our nations economic and fiscal outlook. This position oversees both the collection of taxes and the management of our debt and in addition, as Congress Works to reform our nations tax code and fix our broken health care system, it is absolutely essential that we have a cooperative partner overseeing reasury. That is, quite f
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If we really believed and were going to live this record programmed to go live to the Heritage Foundation this afternoon. A quick reminder you can watch the rest of the Program Online on cspan. Org. This type center for strategic and budgetary assessment in the search bar. Live now to the Heritage Foundation for the future of the every Nuclear Agreement. This is cspan2. Will post a program in the heritage homepage following todays presentation as well. Leaving our discussion as jim phillips, Senior Research fellow for middle Eastern Affairs in douglas and Sarah Allison center for Foreign Policy studies. If the veteran foreignpolicy specialists who has written widely on the middle east and issues of International Terrorism since coming to the Heritage Foundation in 1979. He has authored dozens of papers on iran on its Nuclear Program, use of terrorism and testified before congress on Irans Nuclear program and other middle east security issues. Please join me in welcoming jim phillips. W