Democrats vote conditional STOPS to refugees

The House approved a bill Thursday that would block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the country unless they pass strict background checks – setting up a collision with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.

The bill has unanimous support from Republicans, who were joined by a large bloc of Democrats — even after the Obama administration made a last-minute pitch to persuade wavering House Democrats to oppose the GOP-written bill.

The bipartisan support was a slam President Barack Obama by House Democrats who felt that the administration failed to make a compelling case as to why they should vote against the Republican-authored bill when it was bad politics to do so.

“I think a lot of us went in with open minds and really wanted to understand the administration’s position on this,” said New York Democrat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. “It is offensive to me that we would stigmatize refugees…but if you read the bill what you find it that you have a pretty simple certification process sitting on top of an existing and extensive screening process that most of us believes works pretty well.”

The vote was a significant loss for the White House – perhaps the biggest setback since most of the House Democratic Caucus voted against Obama on a trade bill in mid-June. Fifty-seven (57)n Democrats joined Republicans as the House passed the measure 289-137, in a rebuke to the White House.

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