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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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Strongly believe and understand that there are very, very important tools within the Treasury Department that can combat terrorism. And that many of these tools such as a sanctions are extremely effective and keep our Armed Services 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 though that that has been done very effectively on previous we all agree its important. What were trying to do is assess your qualifications. And you havent been willing to talk about medicare. You havent been willing to talk specifics about terror. Let me take one more crack on qualifications on the committee of Foreign Investment, because this is Something Else as treasury secretary you woul