Back in November, 2115, the House passed the SAFE Act, mandating an increase in security checks for Syrian refugees. It would have required, from top US security officials, personal guarantees that the Syrian refugees who were being resettled in the United States did not pose a terrorist threat.
The Senate blocked the bill, as there was not enough support for a procedural vote. The bill received 55 votes, but needed 60 to proceed.
Top Democrat lawmakers believed the requirements would “incapacitate” the US security framework already in place, even more than as ISIS terrorist attack ever could. Other Democrats called the Republican supported bill as a “xenophobic attack on President Obama’s refugee policy.
One would think, after the much publicized immigrant rape epidemic spreading across Europe, that lawmakers would put politics aside and recognize that HR 4038 is not xenophobic but pro-American safety. Read more on the following page on the blocked bill meant to put precautions in place.
Lowlife SCUMBAGS, people should get to vote on what they make and cut their outrageous pension plans.
Robie Sr Robertson you forgot the whole Democrat congress that signed on for the war!
Democrats just put their party growth before national security.
I’m glade everyone is starting to wake up and see what a corrupt government we really have don’t be a sheep be a sheepdog
Unbelievable
Need to clean house people!
Fools running this nation
Blocking is not voting. This is the stupid “cloture rule” the Republicans are allowing. With it the Democrat minority bullies the whole Senate and stops most everything from coming to a vote! The “cloture rule” is nothing but a standing rule, and can be eliminated from
The practice in the Senate by a simple majority vote. The House passed a will if the house Resolution last December requesting that the Senate discontinue its use the the “cloture rule.” However McConnell continues to embrace the “cloture rule.”
Wtf?
Unfucking believable!!