[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 169 (Tuesday, November 17, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H8252]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TERRORIST ATTACKS IN PARIS

  (Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, the recent terrorist attacks 
in Paris are a stark reminder that we cannot risk the safety of our 
country.
  I am asking Pennsylvania Governor Wolf to suspend the Commonwealth's 
participation in the President's Syrian refugee resettlement 
initiative. The administration has not provided any details of a 
thorough screening plan to thwart ISIS infiltration.
  Meanwhile, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the 
FBI, and the Secretary of Homeland Security have told Congress they 
cannot properly screen refugees coming from Syria and the surrounding 
regions for national security threats.
  We have an obligation to protect Americans from those who seek to 
take advantage of our generosity at the expense of innocent lives.
  The President and Governor are pushing to make America the home for 
tens of thousands of refugees. We have 50,000 homeless veterans within 
the USA and 1,500 in Pennsylvania. If we want to welcome someone home, 
let's start instead with our homeless veterans.

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