[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2280]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THE PRESIDENT'S MISSING PLAN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, when I was in law school, if a person 
did not turn in a term paper, they flunked. But the former 
constitutional law professor has missed a deadline required by law.
  Under the bipartisan 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, the 
President is required to send Congress a real, comprehensive strategy 
to defeat ISIS. He signed this law. The due date was February 15. The 
paper is overdue.
  Confronting terrorism and emphasizing the safety and security of the 
United States is critical. Why hasn't the President complied with the 
law he signed? Where is the plan? Where is the strategy? People are 
being killed by ISIS.
  The Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General 
Stewart, stated that ISIS ``will probably attempt to conduct additional 
attacks in Europe, and attempt to direct attacks on the U.S. homeland 
in 2016.''
  Mr. Speaker, this is not law school. This is the real world where 
terrorists kill the innocent. The President should spend more time 
developing a plan to defeat ISIS than planning to close the jailhouse 
for terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.
  I wonder what grade the President, the constitutional law professor, 
would give himself, the Commander in Chief, for ignoring this legal 
requirement to turn in his paper.
  And that is just the way it is.

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