Washington – The House has rebuked President Barack Obama by ignoring his veto threat and approving a Republican bill erecting fresh barriers for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the United States.
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Thursday’s passage came on a 289-137 vote — exceeding the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override a veto.
The roll call came after White House officials visited the Capitol and lobbied Democrats to oppose the legislation. Dozens of them ended up joining Republicans, anyway, and supporting the measure.
The curbs would in effect suspend the entry of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. for months or years.
Republicans said tighter restrictions are needed following last week’s Paris terrorist attacks. Obama and most Democrats said the system was already safe and the U.S. shouldn’t abandon its tradition of accepting refugees.
can u publish the names of the 137 against voters – the American public would like to remember them in november
mazel tov
sanity returns ,and now keep the Behaima out of office
with impeachment trials for acts of treason against the USA
BH! …sanity prevailed, Hussein O’ lost!
It would not surprise me if forty years from now when Obama is dead and buried (hopefully long after) if it were revealed that he was a secret ISIS spy. I can understand he hates Israel, most world leaders do. But to back ISIS so strongly, there can’t be any other explanation
Finally a modicum of sanity against Hussein Obama’s sell out of America.