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Senate Bill to Penalize Countries for Terror Funding Draws Bipartisan Supporters

By Valentina Pasquali

Proposed legislation that would enable the White House to impose economic penalties on governments that turn a blind eye to terror financiers is gaining bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate. The measure, introduced in late June by Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), would empower the president to deem a country a "jurisdiction of terrorism financing concern" and choose among a number of punitive steps that could restrict bilateral trade and the offering of guarantees, credit, insurance and other financial services. The Stop Terrorist Operational Resources and Money (STORM) Act would separately mandate that the White House bar U.S. banks from providing...

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