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“This is sort of a continuation of my friend Mr. Hill's amendment and Mr. Barr's, and other amendments that we have talked about today, which is really about whether we are going to allow the largest state funder of terrorism to continue to have access to hard dollars and continue to have access to the capital that is funding groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestine Islamic Jihad. Mr. Chair, the deadly terror attacks of October 7 made one thing abundantly clear: The United States cannot continue to allow the Iranian regime access to funding that, in turn, could be used against our allies and even American citizens. I am pleased to offer this amendment today, and I hope it will receive bipartisan support because a very similar amendment, Mr. Chair, received a voice vote in 2016 right along these lines. Last month's barbaric attack against our friends and allies in Israel was a powerful reminder of the dangers posed by Hamas and others. By the way, Hamas, receives 93 percent of their total funding from Tehran. As we mentioned, Tehran and Iran, being the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, must be cut off from their ability to wage hostilities abroad. As far-reaching as our Iranian sanctions are, it may surprise some of my colleagues that we have not actually closed all the financing loopholes.…”