The order''--talking about the executive order of Donald Trump.
``The order is based on security reviews conducted by President Barack
Obama's deputies.''
And, Madam Speaker, for those in the mainstream media, I think it is
important to repeat that line. President Trump's executive order that
didn't ban Muslims but that ordered a temporary pause on people from
certain countries from whom we had no information or inadequate
information to vet the people that were coming in, it was based on
security reviews conducted by President Barack Obama's deputies.
``As White House counselor Kellyanne Conway pointed out on `Fox News
Sunday,' the seven nations named in Trump's executive order are drawn
from the Terrorist Prevention Act of 2015. The 2015 `Visa Waiver
Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015' named
Iraq, Iran, Sudan, and Syria, while its 2016 update added Libya,
Somalia, and Yemen.
`` `These are countries that have a history of training, harboring,
exporting terrorists. We can't keep pretending and look the other way,'
said Conway.
``3. The moratorium is largely temporary.