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Statue of liberty, there is a poem by m. Lazarus who says bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses wanting to breathe free. 12,000 refugees at displaced population of almost five million. Weve seen these heartbreaking pictures of children who are being killed. And think about i guess were talking about 400,000 syrians being killed in this. What about what our and b is as human beings what our obligation is to other human beings. These are people who are fleeing isis. These are people are fleeing an assad regime that uses poison gas against civilians. The u. N. G process is first, refugee, first vets people hands them to us. Average a over on year and a half before we vet them, is that correct . Yes, thats correct, senator. Senator franken and have we had any dulls that came over in syria engage in some sort of errorist plot . No, senator, not to my knowledge. Senator franken you know, my grandfather came from russia. He arrived and saw that on the statue of liberty. He was o ....
Again and said, ill bet it makes you mad, dont get . [laughter] that was such a good start, i told all over iowa. Scott, you might be the ones turning it around. [inaudible] thats what i did. You probably heard in utah. You are exactly right. Let me see if i can do to i wanted to make four points. Let me see how quickly i can make it. Went i think about my job as United States senator given my background, i think about how can i give bill haslam more tools to be a better governor . Because i know if i give them those tools he will do something with them. And i think of the federal government in the internet age as a place where we ought to invest in things that empower states and people to do things for themselves. Kind of in the way apple created ipad with that telling you what the app is, you can create an app and a lot of people can use it. So here are four tools that we worked on, three in a bipartisan way, one is not one is pa ....