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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6153 
To improve the delivery of counterterrorism financing training and technical 
assistance by providing for greater interagency coordination and coopera-
tion, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 
Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin (for herself, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, and Mr. 
SCOTT of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To improve the delivery of counterterrorism financing train-
ing and technical assistance by providing for greater 
interagency coordination and cooperation, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Counter Terrorism Fi-
nancing Coordination Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) In an October 2005 report to the Congress, 
the Comptroller General reviewed the United States 
Government’s interagency efforts to coordinate the 
delivery of training and technical assistance to coun-
tries vulnerable to terrorist financing, and issues of 
accountability in the blocking of terrorist assets held 
in the United States by the Secretary of the Treas-
ury. 
(2) In April 2006, the Comptroller General of 
the United States testified before the Congress on 
the findings of the October 2005 report and, among 
other things, the Comptroller General testified that 
‘‘Although the United States Government provides a 
range of training and technical assistance to coun-
tries it deems vulnerable to terrorist financing, it 
does not have a strategic and integrated plan to co-
ordinate the delivery of this assistance.’’. 
(3) The Terrorist Financing Working Group, 
an interagency entity established by the National Se-
curity Council and chaired by the Secretary of State, 
coordinates the delivery of training and technical as-
sistance to nearly two dozen countries the Working 
Group considers to be priority countries, as well as 
to other countries the Working Group considers to 
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be nonpriority countries, that are vulnerable to ter-
rorist financing. 
(4) The Comptroller General testified that the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury 
disagree about the roles and procedures of each 
agency within the Terrorist Financing Working 
Group for the delivery of counterterrorism financing 
training and technical assistance, thereby causing 
the overall effort to lack effective leadership. 
(5) An example of how this disagreement has 
impacted the delivery of training and technical as-
sistance to countries vulnerable to terrorist financing 
is as follows: 
(A) In May 2005, the Department of State 
denied a Department of the Treasury employee 
official entry into a priority country in response 
to a request from the central bank of that coun-
try to set up a financial intelligence unit. 
(B) The Secretary of State told the Comp-
troller General that the Department wanted to 
conduct a Terrorist Financing Working Group 
assessment before allowing the Department of 
the Treasury to continue its work. 
(C) According to the report of the Govern-
ment Accountability Office, the United States 
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Ambassador to the country requested a delay in 
the assessment and the work of the Department 
of the Treasury was allowed to proceed. 
(D) However, as a result of this disagree-
ment, the entry of the Department of the 
Treasury official into the country and the work 
itself was delayed by several months. 
(6) The Comptroller General testified that the 
interagency coordinating effort on terrorist financing 
training and technical assistance lacked other key 
elements that are critical to effective strategic plan-
ning, such as the strategic alignment of resources 
with needs and risks, and a process to measure re-
sults. 
(7) The October 2005 report of the Comptroller 
General found that the Attorney General, who pro-
vides technical assistance in the drafting of anti-ter-
rorist financing legislation for priority countries, 
concluded that ‘‘having procedures and practices for 
Terrorist Financing Working Group priority coun-
tries that differ from those for other vulnerable 
countries creates problems’’. 
(8) The October 2005, report of the Comp-
troller General cited several instances of interagency 
disagreements on whether it is appropriate for con-
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tractors for the United States to provide legislative 
drafting assistance for counterterrorism financing 
legislation. 
(9) In connection with this disagreement, the 
Secretary of State and the Attorney General believe 
that legislative drafting should be conducted by offi-
cials of the Department of Justice, while the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, in some instances, advocated 
the use of contractors for nonpriority countries. 
(10) The Attorney General objected to the use 
of contractors and indicated that previous contractor 
work on legislative drafting did not meet inter-
national standards for effective counterterrorism fi-
nancing legislation, citing as an example the work of 
a contractor to the Agency for International Devel-
opment who assisted in drafting legislation which of-
ficials of the Department of Justice had to complete 
because the draft included substantial deficiencies, 
in the opinion of the Attorney General. 
(11) In April 2006, officials representing the 
Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury 
testified before the Financial Services Committee of 
the House of Representatives that they did not act 
on the Comptroller General’s recommendations to 
develop a strategic and integrated plan for the deliv-
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ery of counterterrorism financing training and tech-
nical assistance and to enter into an interagency 
Memorandum of Agreement that clarifies each agen-
cy’s roles and responsibilities. 
(12) The officials testified that both the Sec-
retary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury 
believe that an integrated strategic plan already ex-
ists and that ‘‘There is no desire among the Ter-
rorist Financing Working Group agencies to reinvent 
a process that has worked well for several years and 
worked even better since the issuance of the General 
Accountability Office report.’’. 
(13) The Comptroller General recommended in 
his congressional testimony that Congress require 
‘‘the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the 
Treasury to submit an annual report to Congress 
showing the status of interagency efforts to develop 
and implement an integrated strategic plan and 
Memorandum of Agreement to ensure Terrorist Fi-
nancing Working Group’s seamless functioning, par-
ticularly with respect to Terrorist Financing Work-
ing Group roles and procedures’’. 
SEC. 3. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT REQUIRED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State and the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall negotiate and enter into 
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a Memorandum of Agreement (hereafter in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Agreement’’) specifying the role of each 
of the Secretary’s respective Department in the delivery 
of counterterrorism financing training and technical as-
sistance provided to countries abroad (without regard to 
whether any country is designated as a priority country 
or a nonpriority country by the Terrorist Financing Work-
ing Group). 
(b) SPECIFIC SUBJECT TO BE INCLUDED.—In addi-
tion to such other matters as the Secretary of State and 
the Secretary of the Treasury determine to be appropriate 
for inclusion in the Agreement, the Agreement shall in-
clude the following: 
(1) LEADERSHIP AND ROLE.—The specific des-
ignation of leadership, and the role of each agency, 
in the delivery of counterterrorism financing training 
and technical assistance to all countries (without re-
gard to whether any country is designated as a pri-
ority country or a nonpriority country by the Ter-
rorist Financing Working Group). 
(2) DISPUTE RESOLUTION METHODOLOGY.—A 
methodology and procedures for resolving inter-
agency disputes over the delivery of counterterrorism 
financing training and technical assistance, which 
shall include specific and reasonable timeframes for 
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seeking such resolution before elevating unresolved 
disagreements to the next level of decision-making, 
up to and including the Secretaries, and a process 
for submitting any disputes the Secretaries are un-
able to resolve within a specific and reasonable time-
frame to the National Security Council for resolu-
tion. 
(3) COORDINATION
OF
FUNDING
AND
RE-
SOURCES.—The coordination of funding and re-
sources for counterterrorism financing and anti- 
money laundering training and technical assistance 
delivered to all countries (without regard to whether 
any country is designated as a priority country or a 
nonpriority country by the Terrorist Financing 
Working Group), including the means for providing 
a transparent assessment of United States Govern-
ment resources and a method for aligning those re-
sources with the needs of vulnerable countries. 
(4) PRIVATE CONTRACTORS.—A procedure for 
determining the appropriateness of any use of con-
tractors by the Secretary of the Treasury in the de-
livery of counterterrorism financing training and 
technical assistance in any country (without regard 
to whether the country is designated as a priority 
country or a nonpriority country by the Terrorist Fi-
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nancing Working Group), including a system for 
evaluating, in consultation with the Secretary of 
State, the Attorney General and other appropriate 
officers, the quality of work performed by such con-
tractors. 
(5) PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.—A process to 
measure 
the 
performance 
and 
results 
of 
counterterrorism training and technical assistance. 
SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall include in the annual report to the Congress on ter-
rorist assets complete information on the nature and ex-
tent of activities, during the period covered by the report, 
in blocking access of owners or account holders to finan-
cial assets due to the connection of such owners or 
accountholders to terrorism. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report under subsection (a) 
shall include the following: 
(1) The results of the performance evaluation 
under Memorandum of Agreement entered into pur-
suant to section 3 for the period covered by the re-
port. 
(2) Differences in amounts blocked between the 
period covered by the report and preceding periods. 
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(3) When and why blocks were removed from fi-
nancial assets during period covered by the report. 
(4) The achievements and obstacles faced by 
the United States Government with respect to locat-
ing and blocking terrorist assets or in the delivery 
of counterterrorism financing training and technical 
assistance. 
(5) A classified index. 
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