Ed Royce: “In closing, I would just say this for the Members. The 9/11 Commission Report was pretty prescient on this point. It…”

“In closing, I would just say this for the Members. The 9/11 Commission Report was pretty prescient on this point. It said: ``The U.S. Government cannot meet its own obligations to the American people to prevent the entry of terrorists without a major effort to collaborate with other governments.'' The report said further: ``We should do more to exchange terrorist information with trusted allies and raise U.S. and global borders security standards for travel and border crossing, over the medium and long term, through extensive international cooperation.'' This is what the bill does. And, frankly, the Department of State here and the Department of Homeland Security, giving them this authorization to develop this open-source software, to vet those travelers against terrorist watch lists and against those law enforcement databases, is absolutely vital. I will just mention that the so-called Islamic State--we call it Daesh or ISIS--has already threatened to send hundreds of its European fighters back to the continent to carry out attacks like those attacks that they have already carried out in Paris and Brussels and, frankly, attacks like the one they carried out in San Bernardino, California. So I think this measure really deserves our unanimous support. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hurd of Texas). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr.…”