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On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, since I know I have very little time left, let me respond. When you can't trust the people in the White House to train properly to recognize radical Islam, then it is incumbent upon the Congress to put the language in our bill so they don't have a choice. It is not my level of frustration with people circumventing the law. It is the fact that we have the power to put in the bills who does the training, who will get the training, exactly what kind of training, and we are leaving it to this administration. As a result, my frustration is that people are being killed and injured needlessly. Because, even as we stand here with the language in this bill, this administration has already shown that they will train-- in order to prepare for and to prevent a terrorist attack, yes, I know they can get training for active shooting--but they are being trained to prevent and prepare for. You have to learn about Islamophobia. Let's put the language in there so that this administration cannot prevent the true professors of radical Islam from teaching law enforcement on what to look for to know whether someone is radicalized. I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Texas (Mr. Carter). =========================== NOTE =========================== September 20, 2016, on page H5706, the following appeared: Mr. MCCALL. Mr.…
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Louie Gohmert
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