Barney Frank: “We sometimes hold back in using our legitimate moral authority because we worry about somehow alienating other…”

Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.

I am in favor of any opinion anywhere.

I hope that the committee will.

Barney Frank said that he believed that it was a war on crypto that motivated this--not a systemic risk of crypto.