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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 1 (Thursday, January 3, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. BUDD:H.R. 56.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, providing the power to``regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among theseveral states.''[Page H212]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text>DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 56.</text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Financial Technology Protection Act </b></p> <p>This bill provides for the investigation of new financial technologies (e.g., digital currencies) and their use in terrorism and other illicit activities. </p> <p>The bill establishes the Independent Financial Technology Task Force to Combat Terrorism and Illicit Financing, which must research terrorist and illicit use of new financial technologies and issue an annual report. </p> <p>The bill directs the Department of the Treasury to provide a reward for a person who provides information leading to the conviction of an individual involved with terrorist use of digital currencies. </p> <p>The bill establishes the FinTech Leadership in Innovation and Financial Intelligence Program to support the development of tools and programs to detect terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies. <p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Financial Technology Protection Act </b></p> <p>This bill provides for the investigation of new financial technologies (e.g., digital currencies) and their use in terrorism and other illicit activities. </p> <p> The bill establishes the Independent Financial Technology Task Force to Combat Terrorism and Illicit Financing, which must research terrorist and illicit use of new financial technologies and issue an annual report. </p> <p>The bill directs the Department of the Treasury to provide a reward for a person who provides information leading to the conviction of an individual involved with terrorist use of digital currencies. </p> <p>The bill establishes the FinTech Leadership in Innovation and Financial Intelligence Program to support the development of tools and programs to detect terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies. <p> <p>]]></text>
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        <title>To establish an Independent Financial Technology Task Force to Combat Terrorism and Illicit Financing, to provide rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies, to establish a Fintech Leadership in Innovation and Financial Intelligence Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies, and for other purposes.</title>
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