I join all Americans and all the people of the world in standing with the people of Paris. We are so sobered as to what happened to their homeland. but we are also sobered by the challenge and the grave responsibility to thwart the same evil from coming to our homeland. The Director of the FBI testified before Congress just last month that a number of people who were of serious concern were able to slip through screenings of Iraqi refugees. That is what the Director of the FBI said. This disturbing information. Mr. Speaker. obviously raises very serious red flags about lapses in the security within our current refugee vetting system. Again. it is why I support and I encourage all Members to support the American SAFE Act of 2015. It would effectively hit the pause button on the refugee program. not the stop. but the pause button. It is simple legislation. It simply requires more rigid standards so that the FBI. the Department of Homeland Security. and the Director of National Intelligence would positively certify that each refugee from Iraq and Syria does not pose a security threat to us. to our homeland. to our families. Otherwise. they will not be permitted to set down on American soil. It is simple.
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