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U.S. lawmakers deliberated Thursday on how best to monitor the finances of white supremacists and other violent domestic extremists in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Constitutional protections of U.S. civil liberties, including freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, hamper federal efforts to impede homegrown extremists with the same tools and tactics used against foreign terrorists, members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy agreed in a hearing. But even small revisions and enhancements to existing U.S. statutes and regulations would bolster the government's chances of detecting and...