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American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 19, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Immigration

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Mr. Speaker, this bill is here without having gone through committee. It is not our normal process. It is considered an emergency. It is not an emergency. Refugees will not get in this country for 1 1/2 to 2 years from the time they apply.

We could come back and look at the Democratic bill, of which I am a cosponsor, that incorporates Mr. King's amendment to prevent terrorists or people on the terrorist list from getting guns, and get a Democratic and Republican bill that we might find we could agree on.

Instead, we are doing this for politics, and we are doing it by continuing to use the pinata of President Barack Hussein Obama. This is an attack on the President, who has a responsibility to defend us, and his team is doing it. This doesn't add anything to it. It doesn't make us safer. It is simply a political way to attack the President, and it is wrong.

Mr. Speaker, that is why I will be voting ``no.''

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