Byron Dorgan: “I want to mention two other issues, and they don't relate directly to this bill. They are very important to me. We are…”

“I want to mention two other issues, and they don't relate directly to this bill. They are very important to me. We are talking about antiterrorism activities. We have an organization down at the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control. I happen to fund that area, as I am chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds that. I want to say something I said before the terrorist attacks of September 11. OFAC, in my judgment, ought to be using its resources to track terrorists and track the trail left by terrorists with the movement of money around the globe. But in August I pointed out that what OFAC was doing--at least with some of its resources--and it appears that 10 percent of the resources of OFAC is devoted to chasing little old ladies in tennis shoes from Illinois who join a bicycle club from Canada and go bicycling in Cuba and 15 months later get a letter from the Treasury Department that they have a $9,500 fine.”