Senate Blocks Bill Mandating Increased Security Checks on Syrian Refugees

Playing politics with the safety of the American people is unconscionable. In blocking The SAFE Act of 2015 because the Dems viewed it as a xenophobic anti-Obama bill, they ignored the reason for the bill was  to protect those they serve from a very real threat.

House Resolution 4038 was intended to add safety precautions as Syrian refugees applied to resettle in the United States.  The Democrats are so prone to confirmation bias, that they would put their constituents in harms way, just to remain politically correct.  In this case they claimed that an ISIS terrorist attack is less disconcerting than the bill’s “requirements that would “incapacitate” the US security apparatus”.

Six Democrats needed to back the bill in the Senate in order to close the debate and clear the way for the floor vote, a motion known as cloture. Procedural votes are generally seen as a matter of party discipline, however, and very rarely result in defections across the aisle.

Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) offered to support the cloture if the Republicans agreed to vote on two proposals put forth by the Democrats, reported The Hill. Reid’s bills sought to ban firearms sales to individuals on US terrorist watch lists, and condemn GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims from entering the US.
“We’re not afraid of having an open amendment process but this whole idea of having a bunch of show votes to bring the presidential campaign here on the floor of the Senate doesn’t strike me as very constructive,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), according to The Hill.

Source: RT