Price on Refugees Bill, President’s Veto Threat & Fight Against ISIS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On yesterday’s C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) discussed the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the action in the House of Representatives to address concerns with the current refugee program, President Obama’s veto threat of that legislation and his administration’s failure to put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

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“The Administration hasn’t defined a strategy. They refuse to engage in this issue in a way that would make it so that we actually defeat ISIS and stop terrorism coming from that entity. So what the House did this past week was to say because the Homeland Security Secretary and because the Director of the FBI  says we aren’t able to be certain that folks coming in in the refugee program actually are coming here and not having any association with terrorist groups. They aren’t able to say that. And since they’re not able to say that, we ought to pause the program or stop the program right now, and put it on a posture of making certain that they are able to vet these individuals in a proper way. …

“To have the president say – even though in spite of his Homeland Security Secretary saying that they aren’t able to appropriately vet these individuals…to have the president say he’s not going to listen to that, and he’s going to continue to allow people into this nation that he cannot with any certain degree of certainty at all know that they don’t have past ties to terrorism; this is a very very troubling event.”