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On the recordFebruary 2, 2017
Reclaiming my time, in addressing both of those topics, the gentleman's data that says that more Christians than Muslims have been brought in as refugees, I have heard that as an Obama administration information that has come out. That doesn't match up with the data that I have seen when I traveled to places like Geneva and looked at that or looked at the data that came out before that release. The data up to that release indicated entirely the opposite which I have identified. And the data that came out in the last weeks of the Obama administration asserted that they had a significant number of Christians who were part of that. I appreciate the gentleman's point that the executive order references religious minorities, and I appreciate that it does, because I think they are the ones that are targeted. But the gentleman's point about the origin of the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 is an accurate point, and the largest number of them came from Saudi Arabia. I would just assert that because Donald Trump has done business in three of those countries, I would be surprised if he didn't do business in a place like Dubai where they have developed a wonderland out of the desert, and his business in each of those countries. How many other countries has he done business in? I don't think we can correlate that. But what we can correlate is that these seven countries are the countries identified by the Obama administration.…
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Feb 2, 2017

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