Now, ostensibly, the registry would have actually been it would have made it less easy to hide, Gary.

Some and some.

There's a variety of vehicles that are used to move money through politics.

It gets a little complicated.

But the notion that a U.S. company is not going to be used for laundering money and the threat is only foreign companies.

Let me say two quick things.

One is we talked to some corporate attorneys that looked at who would actually be required to report.

Do you hazard to guess why a simple, effective rule that would both make the United States less a haven for corruption and money laundering and would also assist law enforcement is something that Treasury has just decided to do away with?

So in your list, uh, or your, your sort of index of corruption, w- how has the US ranked and how has that ranking changed?

Yeah, so the Transparency International puts out the Corruption Perceptions Index, uh, every year, uh, ranking 180 countries, uh, on their levels of cor- uh, corruption.

Uh, it pulls together from a variety of indices, uh, from experts, uh, around the world, um, and comes up with a composite score.

The US, um, is now at 64 out of 100, so 100 is very clean, 1 would be very corrupt, so we're somewhere still above average, um, but sliding.

Uh, in fact, over the last, uh, 10 or fif- 10 or 11 years, um, we've slid from a high of 76 in 2015, uh, down to a 64 this year.

So it's, it's a concerning pattern, um, and a downward trend.

Mm-hmm.

That bill-Uh, has extraordinarily weak and loophole-ridden provisions in it, uh, to protect against fraud, uh, and money laundering.