Carl Levin actually said...

"We rely on financial institutions to ensure that those for whom we have applied sanctions are not able to access the U.S. financial system."

"Now, what is the relationship between the strength of a drug cartel and the ability of that drug cartel to launder money?"

"So the short answer is they cannot do it directly, so they have to go through this process of sending it to a Mexican bank, if they can, and then having it returned cleansed."

"the more a terrorist can get their money through our system, the stronger a terrorist group will be?"