National security. Thank you. Mr. Mccarthy chairman of foreign affairs, ed royce. Mr. Royce thank you. Our Main Objective here, obviously, is to keep the American People safe. And the challenge that we have and i recently had an opportunity to speak to a number of authorities in europe about this problem. The challenge we have is that over 5,000 foreign fighters with passports have traveled to syria but then traveled back into europe. And so the question for the european government, theyre frankly in a conundrum here because they dont have the personnel to be able to monitor and follow all of those suspected of terrorism and many of those whove traveled to syria and traveled back. So the point of this legislation is to make certain we dont end up fast tracking the ability of people who have that european passport to come in the United States, to fly into new york or some other capital or some other major American City and carry out the same types of attacks here that theyre planning ri
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Senator schumer i dont see that they have reporter c. R. s. Senator schumer well, look, the bottom line here is, the n. R. A. Is a powerful opponent. The gun lobby is a powerful all opponent and the best weapon we have on our side is the outrage from the American People. It is growing. If we keep at it. We will win. We dont control the house. We dont control the senate, but we have the people of america on our side and if we continue to have votes and force people to vote, we will win. Let me tell you something today. There are a good number, not all, but a good number of our republican colleagues dreading these two votes. Next. Reporter if you are serious doing something about guns, why are you trying to attach this to a bill that the president has said he is going to veto . Senator schumer our proposals rescind the underlying bill and just have this so the president will sign them should they pass. Reporter will you fight this in the omnibus . Senator schumer in every place where we
You came in, that is a good time. Thank you all for coming, we put together a task force on counterterrorism and Homeland Security just a couple of weeks ago. Within that task force, we found brought of items, we people together to look and analyze the shortterm and longterm basis for security in the country, especially after what happened in paris. In this, we found a challenge with refugees. We were able to craft work that has already been done, bring it to the floor in a bipartisan bill, a vetoproof bill that passed a few short weeks ago. One of the highest concerns of security we had with the was the Visa Waiver Program. Has worked onity this. They also worked on a task force, making recommendations. We looked at recommendations. We are making sure that every country has a passport. Making sure that every country, if a passport is lost, they reported to into pool interpol. If you look at the mastermind behind paris, he talked about the easiness of traveling between and in europe. W