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442 Cannon House
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In Albuquerque
20 First Plaza NW
Suite 603
Albuquerque, NM
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Congresswoman Heather Wilson, First Congressional District of New Mexico
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October 24, 2001 |
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| Wilson helps empower law enforcement and intelligence community in war on terrorism as PATRIOT bill moves to President’s desk
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Heather Wilson today cast her support behind law enforcement and intelligence gathering professionals who are on the front lines of our nation’s war on terrorism. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly today gave their seal of approval to the PATRIOT Act Conference report (H.R. 2975) with a vote of 356-66, sending the finalized legislation to President Bush for signature.
“The enemy who attacked New York and the Pentagon on September 11th lived malevolently among us,” says Wilson, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and former member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “We must give ourselves the capacity to find them so that we may defeat them. Terrorists are smart and well trained and we need to give our law enforcement and intelligence communities the power they need to find and eliminate networks of terror hiding in our own land.”
The “Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” (PATRIOT) Act modernizes wiretapping laws to keep up with changing technologies such as cell phones, voicemail and e-mail. It allows the sharing of information between law enforcement agencies and intelligence services. The PATRIOT Act also gives courts the authority to review terrorism cases without compromising classified information. It eliminates the statute of limitations on terror.
In addition, the following provisions were added in Conference and were not included in the House-passed version of the legislation:
The sunset of the surveillance provision in the measure is changed to four years.
Money-laundering language passed by the House as H.R. 3004 is added. Specifically, the language:
(1) makes it a crime to smuggle over $10,000 into or out of the U.S., and to transport more than $10,000 in criminal proceeds across state lines;
(2) gives the Justice Department new prosecutorial tools to combat terrorist-related and other money laundering through U.S. financial institutions;
(3) provides statutory authorization for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which analyzes reports filed by financial institutions on currency transactions and suspicious financial activity;
(4) sets up a unit in FinCEN directed at oversight and analysis of hawalas and other underground black market banking systems;
(5) directs the Treasury Department to establish a secure web site to receive electronic filings of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and provide financial institutions with alerts and other information regarding patterns of terrorist or other suspicious activity that warrant enhanced scrutiny;
(6) requires Treasury to report quarterly to industry on how SARs are used to assist law enforcement in combating terrorism and other crimes;
(7) authorizes intelligence agency access to reports filed by financial institutions and expands government access to consumer financial records and credit histories;
(8) creates a public-private task force on terrorist financing;
(9) sets a December 31, 2001, deadline for proposed regulations on SAR reporting requirements for broker-dealers and authorizes Treasury to require SARs of commodity futures traders;
(10) authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to impose “special measures” if a foreign country, financial institution, transaction, or account is deemed to be a “primary money laundering concern”;
(11) prohibits U.S. financial institutions from providing banking services to “shell” banks that have no physical presence in any country nor any affiliation with a financial institution;
(12) requires greater due diligence for certain correspondent and private banking accounts;
(13) authorizes Treasury to regulate concentration accounts;
(14) requires financial institutions to have anti-money laundering programs;
(15) authorizes the President to impose certain sanctions (including limiting access to the U.S. financial system) against foreign governments that refuse to cooperate in law enforcement efforts against terrorism and money laundering; and
(16) updates U.S. anti-counterfeiting laws.
The final legislation also includes language on information sharing between law enforcement agencies, language providing a procedure to challenge of any asset forfeiture by an individual claiming innocence and new requirements on industry for reporting and monitoring suspicious behavior. The Treasury Secretary has 180 days to issue regulations for how best report and monitor such behavior. If no regulations are issued by 180 days, Senate passed provisions take effect.
The measure was reported from the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 36-0 on October 3, 2001. On October 12, 2001, the House passed H.R. 2975 by a vote of 337 – 79. The final version overwhelmingly passed the House today by a vote of 356-66 |
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