Eric Swalwell: “Again, I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for working in a bipartisan way to address one of the greatest…”

“Again, I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for working in a bipartisan way to address one of the greatest threats that the United States, our allies, and people in the Middle East face today, and that is ISIS. ISIS is a brutal, growing force, growing in its influence and ability to carry out successful terrorist attacks, but also growing in its ability to inspire others to take up attacks on their own. ISIS has been so successful these days that they don't even have to order attacks here in America. Their success has inspired others to take up their own attacks. Until we are as coordinated as they are, they will continue to be successful. We saw, in Paris, that a number of the attackers were people who had traveled from Western Europe to Syria and then returned to carry out the horrific attacks we saw back in November. But we can defeat ISIS. We have defeated evil as a country before, and this country works best when its leaders work to protect the American people in a bipartisan way, as we are seeing today. There is no silver bullet we can fire to stop ISIS. Instead, ISIS' defeat will come at the hands of American leadership--American leadership in stitching together a coalition of countries willing and able to defeat ISIS--but also American leadership and its own intelligence community to protect us here at home. Mr.…”