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The 38-year-old also currently serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is not typically a position boasting a purview in European security negotiations.

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While cryptocurrency regulation will likely take up much of the hearing, senators are also sure to question Selig on prediction markets, whose event contracts fall under the purview of the CFTC.

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The agency inspects explosives makers once every three years and has a limited purview.

“We have yet to see anybody come forward and say ‘I was like, 8, I was under 10, I was under 14, when I first came within his purview,’” Kelly continued.

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Congress acknowledged this in the Taiwan Relations Act, thereby removing it from the exclusive purview of the executive.

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