The FATCA agreement didn't even pass Congress as a FATCA agreement. It passed as part of a jobs bill, so clearly some member of Congress wanted to fund something. He had a project he needed to fund, so he came up with this nice arrangement for himself. But having said that, there's not a whole heck of a lot we could do as a country, is there, in terms of influencing the U.S. legislative process—because that's what needs to be done at the end of the day, right?
On May 13th, 2014. See this statement in context.